[ 176 ] Bilhop'Lqud's prefet·ment, and the Letters offame Bifhops to Buckjngham in the Caballd, and judge– what made the Church of England : How bafely do they fneak and beg of him for Preferment'? e. g. Theophilu-s Bifhop of Landajfe, is amoft 1 mife-· rable Man if his Grace help him not to a bettet• Bi{hoprick : Mountagues place at Norwic~ was of little worth Gnce Henry the Eighth flole the Sheep, amLfcarcefor God's~fak§ gave the trotters, as he faith in his Letter to Laud. And this was the way. - So the Church of England is Jure Divino .made by 'the Civil Powers: But yet a few words can prove ( jull: as he proverb aH the reft) that the Dean ' and Chapiter dmfe the Biiliops and not the King. ~ As Heathens made I mages .of the Gods and thought the Gods did actuate them, fo men make the Images of Biihops and Councils, and fome Spi– rits aCtuate them, whatever they be , whether tbofe Noble Lords, Knights and Gentlemen that at their death lamented that they lived Atheifi:s and Infidels, r.epemed ·that .as Patrons they chofe Parifh Church men I know not~ But while thefe Drs know that many Great Councils have .de– creed the nullity of thofe Biibops that got _ in by Secular help and favour~ and.Damned the Seekers and Accepters of it; and yet would perfwade · the Church that all Gods Word is imfufficient for ' ·Univerfal Laws without. the addition of Sove· raign Councils, I will regard them as th~y de-– ferve, and not as they expeCt. Why anfwer they not my late Book of Englifh Nonaonformity ? The True Sum. Popery is, I. The turning a National Univer– glity or'Catholicifp:lof Councils, Church, Power,, - into
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