r 226 J nothing is left out of it which is of Divine Obli. . gation to .all ihe Ckriftian VVorld in all Ages : And therefore that all that the 'Spirit inftituted as .Univerfally Neceffary in Church-Government, is there. . . . 3. Ifit were notf9~ this GapofUnwritteriNe- . ceffary Supplemental Tradition, will le~ in, no . Man ·knoweth what, befides Church-Power, on the like Pretences. 4· Tradition bath been oft pretended by General Councils againft ~ach other, (as l undertake to prove.) 5; All that i~ not in · Scr 1 pture ofChurch-Offices and Goveriunent,have been fo far new, or changed ·U.P) and down, as pro– verb that the Church never took them as llniver~ fal Neceifary Inftitutions ·of Chrift delivered by the Apoftles. I geed not imftance in Patriarcks, and fuch like, nor fuch difference of Seats as Nt;t· z.iqnz.en and Iftdore Pelufiota wi{h levelled; when if General Councils themfelves had been this Ne– ·ceffary Church-Government, the Church had not been Three Hundred Years without them, (yea, and to this Day indeed.) 6. As the King by his Laws, and by his Offi– cers, Judges an~ Jufcices, Lawyers, &c. without another Vicarious Soveraign or Vice-King, doth tell the SubjeCts what is the Conftituted Govern– ment of the Kingdom, and all Official Powers, which they muft obey, fo doth Chrift by his , Written Law, and by his Minifl:ers teaching us in their feveral places, tell us what is his Church... Government, without an Univerfal Vicarious So· veraign. · 7., When Leo the Firft called himfelfCap~tt Ec~ ·' clefite Vniverf alis; and Boniface ~vas called Vniver· [al .IJifhop, (muchmore long afte~ for many Hundw • .dre . • I
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