[ 1 99] VI. If this could be know~ t~ a few Learned Men, it is certain that to moll Chriftians, yea Minifters it cannot: To me it is pot. And it's certain that all Chrifiians, nor all Minifiers are not obliged tD fo great a task as to fearch all the Coun– cils, till they know which they be, and which the Laws which they mull: obey. III. And as the Power and Laws cannot be known, fo it is c~rtain that Obedience to cbefe is not the neceffary means of Chrifl:ianity, ~oncord or Communion, becaufe the nece{fary meafure of (uch Obedience cannot be known to fuch a ufe ; Chrifi in his Infiitution of Baptifm and other ways, bath told what he bath made necelfc1ry tO be a Member of the Univerfal Church; and how all fuch mufi live in Love and Peace, in obeying the refi of his Word fo far as they can know it. . But you that make Obedience to a vifible Power ovet· the Church Uriiverfal,nece:lfary to our Mem– ber{hip, can never tell us \vhich is the neceffary Degree ! If it be all the Canons and Mandates that mull: be fo obeyed , no Man can be faved : much lefs can the Churches all have Concord on fuch terms! yea,' every Chrifiian : If it be not all, who can tell us which be fhe neceifary Canons, ~nd Acts of Obedience, and diflinguia1 Eflentials from Imegrals,unlefs you will return to theWord of God, and,fay that The Covenant. of Grace is Effential , which we may know without thefe , Councils Laws. The JVliniftry of Councils teaching · us how to know 'God's Word and Laws is one . thing, and their own pretended univerfally obliging Legi{H.tion is another. , · Of all this I have -faid much in the fecond Part of my Key for Catholicks, and in my forefaidRe· joinder to W. ']ohnfon. . II. Bu ·
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