r I '· §. I4· Su..:h another proof he fetcheth from the Statute I Eliz. c. I. ~'Forbidding to judge any thing " Herefie but what hath been fo judged by Autha– '' rity of Canonic_al Scripture, or the firft four Ge– e; neral c;ouncils, or any of rhem, _or any other General " Councils.] / An(w. As if forbidding _private Heretication were the fame with the llniverfal Soveraignty of Councils ; we are of the h'lme Religion with all true Chrifiians in the Wo,rld, a,nd we are for as much Concord with all as _vve can attain: But is Concord and Su}l/eilion all one , or Contract .and · Government. · §. I 5. .The like Inference he raifeth from a Canon 1571. forbidding any new DoCtrine not agreeable to the Scriptttre , and [itch as the .,Ancient Fathers and Bijhops thence gathered. . Anfw. And what's.this to an Univerfal Church · Soveraignty? . §. I 6. 1 he Church of England's Sence is better expounded, Reform. Leg. Eccle[. c. I 5. '·' Ortho· ' '< doxorum Patrum eriam authoritatem minime " -cenfeo.ms effe contemnendam : funt epim per– " ·rnulta ~b - illis pr~clare & utiliter dida: Ut .ta– " men ex em·um fententia de (acris literis judi– '' cetur, non admittimus. Debent enim facr~ li- , ' "terre nobis ol:tmis Chrifiian~ doelrina?, & Re.. '' gulx eife, & Judices. Quin& ipfi Patres tantum " flbi deferri recufarunt, f~pius admonentes Le~ " Cto.rem, ut tantifper fuas admittat fententias & " interpretationes, quoad cum facris literis con· ~'[entire eas animadverterit. §. 17· D. s.· P. 358. [Mr. B. ,faith, ThedOIJbt , u whom you will take for good Chriftians into your Communion. But t hil ran be no doHbt,-when I ex- /- ' " ··· ·- · - - ce]-t // ! •
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