Baxter - BX1765 B39 1691

r ·366 J 'Covite1 ~ &c: And who .bath rigbt to call them~ bath the Pope ? Or our Emperors or Kings? what power bath he over -all other Pt:,inces Subjects ? You confefs they were called out of the Imperial Provinces_ ? And how few ( if arw) other Names . are Subfcribed ? But lam forry' that you fiill.fo contrary to all Evidence, take National or Im– perial Univerfality for Terrefirial Univerfality of Church and Councils : I befeech you , if we muft be Papifts , let us be of the more reafonable fort, that know where to fi,nd a Papal Monarch,or Vice– Chrift; and not fent to feek a Church-Parliament Univerfal, or Univerfal Arifiocratical College, that is no where extant in the World, nor can be, efpecially now the five Patriarchs a~~ what and · where they are. How much more Rauonal to be . Governed by the Pope as Patriarch of the Well: only , till we can find out the Arifiocratical Head. ... But ftnce the Empire was turned into many Kingdoms, who can prove that thofe many mull: have all one Human Head. But lam yet more ferry that you joyn withHi/de– brand , in making Princes to be put for the Body and Civil Peace , and Bilhops and Priefis to be the Church, and for the Soul: Which ( God willing,) as I have oft ·done, I iliall fullier Confute, in a Treatife for true· National Churches, proving · that Chrifi- hath made no Higher Vifible Humane Church Power or Form : And that Chrillian Kings are as Sacred 'Perfons, and Minifiers of Chrill: as Biiliops; and Superior Heads of Nati– onal Churches , though the' Power of the Keys. belong only to tne Clergy ; And that a true National Church , is but aChrifiian Kingdom, as fuch, the King being the Head, and Confederate Pa£W,rs. a~q ~h~ch~~ ~h~ S~bj~~ ~9dy! Th . ' . - .• -~

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