' ' [ 1)0 J ' ·conffttntit4"and Valens. How then could they . be knGwn by your Rule ? · But you fay, [ We may know it by the publitk. A,Cls of the Chur~h M we k[Jow the Ails of our Parli~?Jt~nts.] An[. I delire po better proof; how we know them I haye oft mentioned. But here ¥PU leave us utterlymthe dark : What mean you here by [the Church] and what by [ its publick._ABs f ] ' 1. Ifby the Church you mean, 1. All Chrifii-r ·~ns ~f this ·age, we ' are fure they agree not of it. ' . ' . ' I ' 2. Ifyou mean ·the Greater number, we are qn– ~apable of gathering the Votes or knowing it ~ But I have fhewed you that we have reafon to , conj~cture that mofi are againfi you: Vafr num~ hers rejettingfom~, and the reft receiving more, and the Proteilants· ( nor any but the Papifis that I know_of) receive not any as Univerial Sove.. ~:q.ign.: And the Papifis alfo are divided about i~, ?S Fighim and many·more will ~ewyou. 3~ Ifyou·mean it of the.rnoft in former Ages, I Iiill fay, one Age hath had mofi for the Coun-:– ~il of Nice, Chalcedon, Conftantinople fecond and ~hird.) and another Age moft againft th.em. 4· .Ifyou go the only way that's left you, and with the Papifis call cnly thofe the Ch1-trch who ~te of your mind, unchurching the mofi of the ~hurch on Earth, then I <;:onfefs you may fay that the Chnrchreceiverh them and only them. But few wife Men will reverence a Church fo defcribed. · · · · · · . '' II. And what the Attsof the Church are whiGh giveus fuch affurance as yqu mention, I cannot iwagine : As to our Statutes I have proved a Phy– , ,. .. · · · ·· · , · · · fical ). ··.;
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