Baxter - BX1765 B39 1691

( I) ] 2. And with all, the Reformers found, chat though they could have fubmitted to Patriarch5 'as a Humane Power fet up by Princes, had they Governed according to the Laws of Chrifi, yet 1. It being but a Humane Power, z. And one Prince having no right to fet up a Patriarch over another Princes Subjects, 3. And the Roman Pa– triarch claiming alfo the Univerfal Soveraigncy, or part of it in Councils ; 4· And having corrupted DoCtrine, \Vor{hip and Difcipline, they took it to be their duty to renounce alfo the Pope's Pa– triarchal Government ; and for all Chri.fii:ms to obey Chrifi's Univerfal Laws alone, and the Lo– cal Laws circa facra left to man's Legillation, of the particular Princes and Stares where they live. And not to place Univerfal Unity or Concord in any Ufurping Humane Soveraign, or their Laws, or mutable circumfiances : And, had tbofe ex– celle'nt moderate Papifis befcre-named, well fiu- , died this point of Univerfal Soveraigncy, it's like· they had forfaken Rome. § XI. When the Pope thought to fatisfie the World, and confound the Reformation by the Council of Trent, the Cardinal of Lorain, and the French con{ented not to much that they.there did; bu'dluck to the Councils of Con]lance and Bajil, left they 1l1ould lofe the Liberties of the Gallican Chutch : So that it was long e're that Nation feemed to own the Council of Trent, , and never did it heartily and univerfally ; but continued ar , {ome further ~ifi'ance from the Abfolutenefs of the Pope than Italy or Spain. And to this day they continue to maintain, 1. That the Pope bath no - ·po\\er over the King in Temporals :· z. That he haeh no-Power to Depofe Kings: 3. That Gene– ral • ' •

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