[ 202] ' when no Chriftians, muc~ lefs all, can poffibly know that all or moft Btihops have per LiterM, confented to fuch obliging Laws ? 1. How can. we prove that ever any went over all the World to them ? (Drake ·or Candifh did it not.) 2. And that they opened the,Cafe aright to them ? j. And that thefe Laws had the-Major Vote? 4. And that they 'are not forged or corrupted fince? 5. And that thefe were ·true Bifhops themfel~es that did it in America, Ethiopia, Armeni~t, Greece, &c. out of our reach? ~ 6. Yea, What poffibility is there of any fuch known Agreement, when ifs known that almofi: all the Chrifiian World is divided into Parties; which di(~gree and cenfure one another? · The Englilh Diocefans and Church differeth from the Roman·, and the mofiJ or many of the Reformed. The Lutheraos from the Calvinifis; The Papifis from us all, and from the Greek, and the Greek from them and us ; and all from the Abaffines, Cepties, Syrians, called Jacobites, Nefiorians, &c. and fr?m the Armenians, Georgians, Circaflians, Mengrelians, Ruffians, .&c. How lhall I, and all the Minifi:ets on Earth, yea, and all ChriHiaos, know that all thefe have per·Literas format:u, made Laws which all mufi neceffarilvob.ey? .· But if it be only .the Sound Part that hath this Univerfal Government, how can I, and all .Men lmow which, and who that is? ·Hearfay of Ad– verf3ries report will not tell·us ; and almofi all on Earth are cqndemned or accufed by the re£1-, or ~noft, or ·tnany. And we mufl: bear them (that dwell ar the · Antipodes or ']erufalem, &c.) before we judge them, fo far as to exclude them from ~ ~he Sacred Power. If /
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