[ 221] Clergy, ~hat we receive the Scriptures, tbat it ua Natural Hiftorical Evidence that the ~ Matter of Fact is refolved into, and not .of Supernatural In– fallibility by Authority. 4· And .when Vinc·Li· · rinenfis turneth us to quod ab omnibus ubique & (em.... per receptum eff, and the Papifis that go with Hol– den lay mofi on the Confent of all Chriftians, they never thought that the Laity through all the Chri– .tHan World are one Univerfal ColleCtive Sove– raign. Nor do you think fo of all the Confenting Priefis, while you appropriate this Colleflive-Soveraignty to the 13ifhops. , _ 6. I would know, whether it be only the Scrip– ture, or alfo our Chriftianity and Creed, which mull: be received as from a Soveraign Church· Power? Ifyou fay it's only Scripture, why may we not re– ceive th~ Scripture otherwife, if we may other– wife receive our Chriftianity, Creed and Bapti[m? But I doubt not but youwill fay, It u both. If fo, ·then a Child (or Man) muft know and believe that Chrift bath authorized a Vicarious Soveraign · Prelacy, before he can believe that there is a Chri/f that had any Authority himfelf. 2. And he mull: be fo good a Cafuifi as to know what rnakech a true Bilhop. 3· And fo well acquainted with all rhe World, as to know what parts of the Earth have true Biihops, and what they hold. And is this the way of making Chrifii~ns ? · · Perhaps you will fay, That Parents, Tutors and · Priefis ·telJ ' them what all the Bifhops of the World hold as a Soveraign Judicature. I anfwer, I. If they did, 'Holden confeifeth that ·the Cer... t~!ntY of Faith caQ be no greater than our Cer– tamty of the Medium. And the Child,or Hearer,that knowelh not that his Parent andTeacher, therein. _ - , faith
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