[ 6 ] his ambition ·bad obfcurely before begun. For elfe, I. His old power had died, when he was no Member of the Empire, and fo from under the ancient Government and Laws: Andall mufl: have been built on a new uncertain Foundation. :2. And when all the old Eafiern Empire was gone, his Power and Primacy would have been confined to a nart'ow compafs. VVherefore he ferved his prefent interefi; J. By fetcing 'up . the French Empire, and 2. ·By pretending to a.right ofUniverfal Soveraignty over the VVorld as the Succeffor of St. Peter. :For a General bath no firength without his Ar- \ 'my, who mufi have their Part in the Fight, the Victory, and the Prey: Popes always ruled but in and by thefe Councils : Thefe therefore muft, as Church Parliaments have their Power in the , llniverf2lSoveraigncy, -and the Pope as Univerfal _Monarch rnufl: Rule not abfolutely; but in and by thefe Law-makers and their Laws. How this Land was brought to Popery by de– grees, and how much the mofi Religious Men did towards it, I mufi not tell Hifiorically left I be too long. He that readeth but Beda, and Malmesbury, and HuntingtoJJ, and Hoveden, and Matthew Paris, may fee how the Roman Grandeur drew on the change, and how good people took the advancement of the Bifi1ops in Wealth and , Power, .and the ·Number and Endowments of Monafierie's to be the chief firengch of the Chri– :fiian Church, while Princes \V ere hardly refirain– ed from Rapacity, Sacriledge, and from the Crimes that co~nmonly breed in ·worldly Power, .Wealth and Plea.fure. The wickednefs of fome 1 Princes made the Power ofthe Prelates feem ne- · ·~' .ceffary
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