[ 198 J thotity and mufc be obeyed by any outward Note, but only by trying them by the VVord clG~. . 6. And what wonder, when there is no other certain Note by ·which_an obliging Council can . be known from others ? ( And he that knoweth · wha:t God faith without the ,Council needs it not.) The Papifcs have no Note of difference but the Popes Approbation. And Protefi:ants know that this is no proofof their Authority. At Eph. z• J3etlarmine and Binni11s tell us that the confent was fo general, that only St. Peter's Ship efcaped drown– ing. At Confl-.I. they confefs that the Pope had not fo much as a Legate : By what Note fball we know the true and Authorized Councils from the rejed:ep, -when part of d1e Chriftian VVorld is ,for one and againft another, and the other part l.:Ont~ary? · Ill. And there is no Agreement In what ·the Power of fuch Councils materially doth confift, and what it is that they may command us, and what not. \ · IV. Nor is there any Agreement which and how many are their true Obligatory Laws, when we have fuch huge Volurnes of Decrees and Ca.,. pons ; woe to us if all thefe. mull: neceffarily be obeyed to our Concord or Salvation. And ifnot all, how fball we know which? · V. Nor do we know how we mull: be fure that all thefe Canons indeed were Currant and had the Major Vore ; or many be Counterfeit;. when the Africans had then fuch a ftir with the Pope abo!Jt the 1\licene or Sardican Canon; and when to this ~ay the Ccmons of theLateran,eCouncilfi-tb Innoc.j. are jufiified by mofi and denied by many~ . . . . , . • Vl· If ' \
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