[ I 95 J I n. lt is not to this day known which were true General Councils that are pall: : Some fay thofe were Latrocinia and Conventicles that others fay " were Lawful CoUJJcils. Some are for bur four; fome for fix; fome for eight ; fome for all fo called ; there is ,no agreement which are true and obligatory. Groiius is for Trent and all 1 which ,others abhor. 2. It is not known who l1ath Power to call them, and whofe call is valid. ' 3. Nor what Individuals or Particulat:Churches are capable of fending and chuling, and obliged to it. Almofi: all the Chrifiian World is judged un– capable by the moll: ofChrifiians. , The Papi[ts are _fo judged by the Greeks, Protefiants, &c. The Eaqerrt and Ethiopian .Cbrill:ians, are excluded by ·the Papifis, Greeks, &c. as Jacobites, Neftori- . ·ans, Schifmaticks, &c. The Greeks are excluded by the Papifis and others as Schifmaticks and Er– roneous. The Proteftants are juaged Hereticks– and Schifmaticks py the Papifts and manyGreeks, &c. How Lutherans and Calvinifis, Diocefans and ·Presbyterians, &c. judge of one another; I need not tell. And can all or any of them know which of thefe muft make up a Legillative Coun.:: dl of the whole Church on Earth? . 4· It is not known how many mufi: ConiHtut~ fuch aCouncil, nor in what proportions. Ifthere be innumerable ,Biihops"under Philippicus for the Monothelites 'out of the Eafi (as Binnius faith) and few out of the Weft, was that a true Gene– ral Coondl? If at Nice., Ephefus, Conjlantinople; Chalcedon, there be not one out of the-·Weft td twenty or forty~ .or a hundred others 1 i$ it a true repr~fentative of the whole Church? If there ' be • Q ~ • ~w~ .
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