Baxter - BX1765 B39 1691

. [ 206 ] be C0nfiant : And any other Supream acceffible College is unknown to me and all that I can fpeak w~th, and I can no more obey them, than aCol– lege of Angels unknown to ,me. . If the Church have a vifible Vicarious Supream , the Fope is like!l: to be he , as to the confiant Executive Power, and the Prefident ofCouncils. · I fuppofe you rake the Councils of Conftance and Bafil, and the French for Papi-fis ; though they fet a Council above the Pope. . 6. The World bath no Univerfal Civil Govern– ment under God; neither a Monarch, nor a Col– lege or Council of Kings. All the World is Go~ · verned by Men per partes in their 'feveral Domi– nions, as all Enp,land is under the King, by all the . Mayors , Bailiffs aQd Jufiices : But there 'is n(} Council of Jufiices that are One Vniverfal Govcr– nour Colleiliv.e : Nor is the Dyet ofPrinces, or any Council of Kings one SupreamGovernment of the , Earth. A Logical ur1iverfality there is, as all Rulers confidered notionally rule all theWorld by Parts, but no Political Head or Univerfal Gover– nour over the whole; whom all the Parts mufi: · obey. \ ,· . I. Ifnow I am in the right, and you miffaken, then you wrongfully deny the Spirit, Church.. Membedhip, and confequently Salvation as well as Concord, to all Protefiants·that eve~: I knew or read , who ·deny a vifible Univerfal Church · Head,'Perfonal or Colletl:ive ; And I think to moll: in the Worlct. A'\d what Schifm that is, .I need · not fay. . I 1. Ifl am in the wrong, I am no Chrifl:ian,nor Church Member, nor· can be faved {For you fay, [This Body. fo governed only hath the S~irit]: . · , And \

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