[ 1.11] certai!l fame, ·faving t~at while I know otherwi(e what IS·neceifary truth, I know that they are not - the Church that receive it not, whoever they be. I am a Stranger tO Abal]ia, Armenia, Gearp,irz, In- . dia, Ruffia, Mexico, &c; And what if I never ·knew that there are fuch Countries in the World ? 2. I can eatily prove what I told you,, how oft the Major Part hath change9 , yea, the fim1e Bi– fhops upon the change. of Prmces, and cried, Omnes Peccavimm. And who knoweth by Ivlajority of Votes, which Years they were in the right ? 3. Either the Canons of Councils were obliga– tory upon the Promulgation before the abfent Bithops in all Countries received them, or not .; If yea, then it is not Univer.C1l Reception that made them fo : If not , then the abfent are not bound to receive them. 4· How manyYears will it be after a Council be– fore we can know whether all or mofi of the Chrifiian World receive it ? By all that I can read in Hiflory, I cannot cell, e. g. whether more Bithops were for the Council of Chalcedon, or againft it, for the time of feven or eight Emperors Reign ; Nor whether more now be for or againfi: the fecond Nicme Council (which the Lutherans fo much fa.vour) and fo of many more. And every one.cannot know it, nor fetch his Faith. or Religion,from a Catalogue of all the Chriflian · Bii11ops in the ~orld, or a Calculation ofthei,t numbred Votes. · §. 9· 6. Fn~jfra eff Potentia qu~ non' re.duc#ur, 1,1ec reducenda eft in aElum. r. Indeed as the Pope is naturally uncapable of Governing all the Cbri– fiian World, All.Bii11opson 1;3.arth are much nwre uncapable as one Colletti\reVotingPower,but only P a pc~ • •
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