[ 20~ ' ] If it be faid, That it is not the makjng of New • Laws, that is done by. this Collegium Paftorum all over the world,but theirConfent to thofe tbatCoun.:. cils made: I anfwer, 1. Are they not Valid upon the Councils making them? Then·Councils have not Legifbtive Power. 2. Ifit be left impoffible ' to mofr to know which wc;re true Councils, .and which are their Valid Laws, when the prefent Af- · fernblies have befr opportunity to fignifie Confent, how impofiible will ic be ro know which Councils . and which Laws (and inwhat fenfe)" are approved by all the BHhops in theWorld, or by mofi ?·And that the Votes were faithfully gathered ? And by whom? Aqd that the Major parr are the Rulers of the ,Minors. · ' Tf/ill. Johnfon faith, That it is a General Judicia! Sentence, De Speciebus, and not De lndividuu, that Councils ufe; E. g. [We AnatheN'tati:ze all that hold ' or do this or that.] But, I. It's ·known that they. Anathematized many Individuals. 2. 'No Man can be bound by it, till it fall upon Individuals. Condemning Arrians, proveth no Man to, be an Arrian : Forbidding us to beat Hereticks, obli– geth none not'to hear him that is not proved a He– retick : Judgment muft be of Individuals befo1·e it . can be executed. . . He that mufr obey the Univerfal Church, mu.fl: be commanded by the Univerfal Church, and , muH know that they command him, and .what they command him ; which is to me, and to mofi impoffible. · · 4· Willidm .lohnfons and his Parties Jafi AnfWet~ is, That the People muft Believe their own indi· . · vidual Pafiors, telling them "vhat the Univerfal Church commandeth : And indeed there is no o~ • • ther
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