[ 214 ] per partes in their feveral Limits. 2. How canI ·obey a Power that aeteth not ? §. ro; 7. Alas what abundance of Herelies have been Publilbed fince the Six Councils which you own? yea, by Ranters, QQakers, Familifis, &c.in - our times~ befides Bec/z.man's Catalogue of German Fanaticks. And yet what Unive~fal Council, or Litertt format£ of all the World, have given us fufficient notice of their Evil ? How foolifhly have the PapiHs done about Janfenianifms, the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary, &c. to feek the Pope's Determination, if the fenfe of all the Bifhops of the World can be known to decide the Cafe ?' How many Herefies have' been Condemned in Councils firice the Sixth Council, of'"'hich the whole Church bath no otherwife no... tified their fence (as in the Cafe of Philoponm of Images, of Eltpandus, and Ftelix, of Abbot Joa– chims .Abeilard,o£ Gilbert Porretane, ofWecilo; of .Bert:ngarius, Wickliffe, . Hujfe) whether it was He– refie or not? You fay, If I broach a Herefie, the Vniverfal Church will foon tell me where they are by Condemnirzg it ,.. When Multitudes have been broached thefe lafi Thoufand Years , of which - thofe in .Abaf!ia, Syria, Egypt, .Armenia, and mofi of the ChrifiianWorld, have never told us that ever they were Judged, or fo much as heard ? Shall no Bifhops or Provincial Council condemn new Herefies, but leave e. g. Srvenkfeldius , David George, ServetUJ, Pomponatius, Vaninm, andahun– dred fuch to p~fs for good Chrifcians , till they hear from all the Biihops of the World ? Ami what need General Councils be gathered to Con– demn fuch, if we can know the fence of all with~ out them? ·' ,. · · ... .. ·. ' · .. . . .... ' ; . §. II~
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