' . . [ 141 J ' proceed in an ordinary Method,plain!y countena?:Jcing 'the Authority of Councils, and intimating to m, 'that all Chriftian People ought to fubmit to thei~ 'Decrees. ·. .Anfw. J. They did decide it by their Infallible Spirit; elfe they had not fathered all on the.Holy .Ghofi: But not. [only] by that Spirit: for it was alfo by their Vnderjfandings and their Tongues. Even fo they did not write the Gofpel only by the Spirit, but alfo by their Reafon and their Pens,. · But they decided it not without that Spiritual in– falli~le Infpiration , which your Councils have nor. You may as well fay when .All. 6. 2~ the twelve c.alled the Multitude, &c. that there W?S aGeneral Council, ·that fpake not only by the Spirit : And Aff. II. z. Petlr pleadeth his Caufe before the Apofi:les and Brethren, who were fatisfied by his Reafons : This was fuch another General Council. But who doubteth but the Apofiles had Reafon ~s well as the Spirit, and ufed the gift of the Spirit in the ufe of Reafon, and not only in Extafies: And therefore ,Confultation and the Spirits infallible Infpiration may go together. . ... 2. \Ve deny not the ufe of Confultation and the Confent of many as a help to incline mens Minds to SatisfaCtion : But only infallible Men can by infallible Authority decide Controverfie fentemially. An9 if Pope or Councils have fuch Infallibility, they have done ill that they would ufe it no better than the Multitude of their 1 Contradicticns manifefieth':' And if 'they were In– fallible, the Peoples actual Faith is never t·he more infallible unlefs they themfelves were infallible alfo. ,Are all the believers ofPopes and Councils them– , • felves '' •
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