., ' t .1)8 ] Qu. Whether a Council of fuch Bi.tbops be it1: fallible, or can make us a better Rule than the Scripture. . 2. Readers, here you fee that it is no wonder that thefe Reverend Fathers renounce Popery. You fee what a Pope is in their account : It is a Minifier of a fingle Church, who taketh not their Lordiliips or Councils to be Law-givers and Judges over all the Earth. We poor Protefiants took him for a Pope that claimed fuch an Univerfal Rule alone, or as the Prefident of Councils : But thefe Men take him for a Pope·thatdeniethPopery, and pretendeth to no Government beyond his Pa– rlaJ. Yea, not only fo ., but in our Parifues we oblige rione to take up anyof their Religion (Faith or Duty to God) on our commanding Authority 1 but to iearn by the Evidence which caufed our own Faith, to believe by a Faith Divine. 3. I have oft faid that the Catholick Church is '. fuch by Faith and SubjeCtion to Chrifi , which I own and daily Preach : But that there never was a General Council of the Chrifiian \Vorld, nor is there any fuch thing as aCatholick C:hurch in .the Popi!11 fence , that is , having one Political hu– mane Soveraigncy. · And how did the Man make himfelf believe that I knowingly oppofed that which my whole Writing labours to prove never had a being. Reader , Lament the Cafe of the Church on Earth, when the moll: fiudious Lea– ders are fo dark and raih and bad , as either I, ot thefe Reverend Fatl~ers are, fetting the World into ruinating Divilions by words of fuch a DialeCt: as is harlh to name. . §. ro. P. 348. Dr. s. pretendeth to fome Scrip– ture Proofs, vi~: 1 Cor. 14. 32, 33· . The Spirit of the'
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