I [ 191 ] (' {hops as Inferior Heads ofUnity to the feveral "Bodies,. fo conftituted by the .feveral Apofcles " in their Plantations, each of them having an ·" rlv/ovoc-u'ct;, a feveral diftin6t Commiffion from ., "Chrift Immediately and Subordinate to none but "the SupreamDonor or Plenipotentiary. ] - · ( Neither to a Perfonal nor Collective Sove- '. raign Power. J • The Judges of England have a Power which li– mitedly in their feveral Courts and Circuits re– fpeCleth aU the Kingdom. But, I. They have no Legifiative Power., 2. ·Nor are they Confii– tutive Effemial parts o-f the .Kingdom : It would be the fame Kingdom were their Power changed.. ~. Therefore the Confiitutive Oaths or Bond is only between King and Subjects~ and we are not to Swear Allegiance to any other than the King. 4· Nor are they Judges out of their feveral Courts and Circuitt>. 5. Much lefs in other Kingdoms. 6. Nor is any a Judge to all the World, fo is ,it inthe Cafe in quefiion, yet were they Apo.files to the Univerfal Church, that which none are fince: their time. HI. If there be fuch a Vicarious GoverningSo· veraign'ty over the Univerfal Church, it is either the Pope, or a General Council, or forne Col..– ledge of Pafiors : But it is none of thefe. I. As to the Pope you fay that he 1s fo far from being Head .of the Church that he ,is not aMem– ber : So that I need not fay more of this to . ,you. 2. That General ~ouncils are no fi1ch Soveraign Power which all .mufi obey that will be Chrifii– , ans or inaChurch, feemeth to me pafi doubt fot thefe Reafons. I .· . · • I • I. Be-· /
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