[ I 2 I ] ~of it~ Thefe Laws are as Vifible as the ' Laws ofany Kingdom ~r Commoft~wealrh that ' is or ever was are Vifible ---. I maintain the ' PopesC~non Law ( and th~ fame is t~ be faid 'of the Canon taw, by which the Patnarch ·of - 'Conftantinople now Governs the Eafiern Church ) ~ to be derived from thofe Rules whereby d1e ., Difciples of our Lord and their Succeffors· go– ' verned the Primitive Church in Unity. ·-The ' power of Giving La"is to the Church ; the ,. ' power ofDifpen!ing the Exc.hequer which God ' bath provided for the Church, are in the Go- . ' vernors of the Church ; and the po~· er of ad– .' rnitting into and excluding out. Ic's a Vifible ' Society founded by God under the Name of the , ' Catholick Church, on the command of holding 'Communion with it. · Page 41. 'The Church in the fot·m which I ' fiate it is a jfanding Synod, able by the confent of 'the Chief ChurcheJ, containing the confent of •'their reforts to conclude the whole. · Page 48. ' The Church of Rome hath and oughr 'to have when it ihall pleafe to hear reafon, a 'Regular pre-erl)inence, over the refi ofChrifien- ' ' dom in thefeWefiern parts. And he that is able , ' to judge and willing ·to confider fhall find chat 'Pre·eminence the Only Reafonable means to pre- ' ferve fo great aBody in ·Unity. And therefore ' I am not my felf tyed to jufiifie Henry the ~Eighth indifclaimingall fuch pre-eminence. ' I Page48. ' That the difference may be vifible 'between the InjiQite and theReg¥lar Po'wer of the 'Pope. · ·Page 91. ~The perpetual Rule of the Church 'makes •
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