[ 201 ] 2~ Are thefe ~iterceformat~, Legijlatzve, Judi.. cifll or Exec·utive ? If none of thefe, they are no Acts of Government. And I asked, where Jhall ' we find them if they are our Laws? If they be Judicial and Executive, whither is it that the Ac– cufers, Accuied and Witneffes llJUfi come to be heard [peak before the Sentence was paifed per literas formatm: e. g. Theodoret, and the reft de tribmCapitulu, when it inuA: be judged, I. Whe-. ther they wrote fuch words ? 2. What ch,e fence was ? 3. Whether they Vi' ere Heretical ?4. VVhe– ther they repented, and mufi we go to all the Bifhops in the World one by one for tryal ? or be judged without being t;ver heard? 3· I cannot imagine what can be here faid, un– lefs it be that fome Bi{hops firfi dothe thing, and then others do per LiterM confenr. Bur, r. Do fome Biiliops firfi make Laws for all tbe World, and then the refi confent, or only for their own , Churches ? By what Authority do they the firfi? 2. Or do fome Bilhop_s try and judge a Man, e. g. in this or that Country and-Parilh, and then all the refi in the \Vorld confent, that never hear r them, or hear of them? Every Man (nor any) is not Excomrnu_nicatedper LiterM format a&, by all the BHhops in the World, or rnoft. 3· But le is not the Executive or 1udicial Aet:s that our ~efiion is concerned in, but theRule of Obedience, which is a Law. As it was never known that Men rnufi not be taken in by Baptifrn, or caft out by Excornrnu,nication, till all the Bifbops on Earrh · agree to i+; fo no Univerfal LavYsare extant that were made by fuch Letter~. · . . · 4· lAnd how can this be ,the Rule, and Tdl of Chrifiianicy, or Church,memberfhip or Concord, ·- •Ahen
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