Baxter - BX1765 B39 1691

[ 204 J ' ' ther way praCticable ; But then, r. This is but a trick to make every Pafior the Lord ofour Faith and Souls ; on pretence ofobeying the Univerfal Church. And if this be your fenfe it will amount to this [No man is a Chriftian that believeth not his Paftor telling him what the Vniverfal 9hurch commandeth.] · . 2. But I find mo!l: Teachers are as ignorant as I am, who know not fuch Univerfal Authority or Laws. 3· Archbifl1op Vfher, and many other Biiliops, thought that General Councils were not for Regi– ment, but Concord : And he that believeth no fuch Governing Power, cannot declare it ·to his l~Jock, 'norobey it.- . ' 4· By thisway, mo!l: Chrifiians 01all be bound on pain of Damnation to- believe Untruths, and things contrary to what others muft believe, e.g. In Abaf!ia, Egypt, Syria, &c. they will be bound tO believe one thing, ·and at Cbnflan'tinop!e ano· ther, &c. Thofe called\ now Nefiorians , are by Travellers [aid to own none of that Herelie , but to Condemn the Council of Chalcedon and Eph. r. for wronging Neftorius , as Innocent did them that condemned Chryfoffome : Tho[e called Jacobites, and Eutychians are faid to have no more of the HereGe, but to condemn the faid Chalcedon Coun– ·cil for \\'ranging Diofcorus , and to own the fecond ,. Ephefine Council : fome will be bound to be for Images in Churche:), and fome againfi them ; fome for Con{tantinople, and fome for Rome's Supremacy, (and.all in their Countries to be Papifis) for their l')afiors·tell rhem that the Catholick Church is on their fide: yea, in roe fame Country (as in Eng– land) fome rnufr be for Arminianifm (as i~ is , · · ••• I· · • called)

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