/ . [ 146 ] ~ £1-itftn Chur'ch has chaOenged foch an Authority, and 'has held fuch Aj]i:mblies tU occafi'on did require ; and · 'fix{uch have been approved and received generally in ~the Church, and no more.] An(. In all this matter of fa6t: I think there is riot one true word. . I. The Chriftian Church did never challenge fuch an Authority, ( unlefs you mean the Papal Church) as in Council to 'have a Legillative and . Judicial Sovereiigmy 'over the whole Chriilian ,VVorld. 2. ~ever fuch an Afiembly was call'dor held, as I haye fuUy proved. 3. Thefixyou mean we honour, and are of the fame\ Faith as they were, but how far all the Chrifiian World bath been from , receiving them all, I have elfewhere Thewn ( and fo bath Luther ilc Conciliu and many Protefiants. ) · 4· That there were no more approved and re· ceivedas thefe were, is unproved. · ·§ 6. Dr.,S. [ As for Mr. B' s exception, why w.e , do not own the fecond ofEph. and fecond of Nice for General Cpuncils al{o ? I anfwer, becaufe they were .at the time they were firft held and many years after, accounted no General Councils, and not received for {uch by the Church,--. And page 346. [Mr. B. demandeth how {hall any Mans Confi:ience be fatisfoed ihat juft theft fix had a[upream, &c. Anf. By the tmblick.,Ails ofthe Church tU we are [atisfted of onr .AClsof Parliament: For there are no more £fnerally tu:eived, and th~fe are. .An{ 1. I will not ftand here on many previous tquefiions : Ho-w we fhall know that aCpuncil n<?t Gineral binds us not as much as a General, tf th~y have as wiie Men and as ftrong Evidence~ -. , And
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