• [ 124 J 'Rites ofGod's Service, or other Obfervations,· < by one and the fame name of Laws of the <Church. ' P. 2 3. As for the Canons of the Church, it was ' never neceffary to the maintenance of Commu– ,. munion that;. the fame Cufioms ihould be held in 'all parts of the Church. It was only neceffary the .' feveral Cufioms !hould be held by the fame Au- ' thority. That the fame Authority infiituted fe– ' veral Cu11oms; for fo they might be changed by 'the fame Authority, and yet Unity remain. ' Whereas queilioning the Authority by que~ ' 1Honing whether the aCts of it be agreeable to ' raGod's Law or not,how fhould Unity ,be main– ' tained ? It is manifeft that they ( the Fathers) , 'could not have agreed in the Laws of the ' .Church, if any had excepted againfr any thing ' ufed in any part of the Church, as if God's Law . ' had been infringed ·by it. - It followeth of ' neceffity , that nothing (c) Here is I. An Univer- ( can be difowned by this 1al Legiflative Power over 'Church as contrary to all the Church on Earth. ~. This Power is in Coun· 'God,s Law, which holdcils, of which the Pope is 'eth by the Primitive the chiefMember; and the ' Church. (c.) only rea onable means of the UnionoffograuaBody, is his Regular Power as difiinB: from Infinite Power. , . All the Canons. Rites and Cufl:oms, are t_hefe Laws of the Chu·rch. 4· All Kings and Kingdoms are bound to obey thern. ). No man muft quefiion whether t~efe · Laws or Cufi:oms, or anyofthem are contrary to God•s Law. 6. Themen that muft have ·this Abfolute Power over all the Kings andKingdoms onEarth, that will be Chdfrian,are them– felves the Subjetts of the Turks, the Moore, the Emperor of Abaffia, the Perfian, the Emp~ror of Indaftan, called the M{)gul, the Kings ofPoland, Hu11g;ary, Spain, France, England, J)enmark, Sweden, the Emperor of Germanf, and abundance more; when i{s known that few Bdhop.s are chofen in any of thefe Countreys
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