: ' ; [ 227 . J .. ~lred Year$) to·: great a part of the Empire judged the Rom.an Bi{hop to be the pt'ime in the Empir.e, I • and in Councils; and Principium Vnitatis,: as Ar- ' chbilhop ,Br:omhal fpeaketh , as that it feemeth: then to have b'een the M?jor part of the Bifhops of the whole World, the Empire being then the far. greatefi part of the Univerfal Chun:h: And ·even. Salmajiru (liberally) granteth that the Pope was not a meer Patriarch, but the Heads of the Patri– archs and Church Univerfal (in the Empire) de I Ecclef. Suburbicar. prope fin. And I underfiand not how he is Principium Vnitatis in a Governed Society as fuch, who is.not Principiu~ Regens. But it followeth not that it was fo from the Apofiles, nor that it mull: continue fo when the Empjre is overthrown, or the Emperor will change .it. If . , moll: of the Church be in one Empire, and the Prince think he lhould form the Government to that of the State, ( as the Chalcedon Council that magnified Leo yet witneffeth) cloth th1s make one of his Subjells Ruler ofall other Chriflian Kings, or fubjeet the World to Foreigners ·? Yea, and that when the Empire and its Laws are overthrown,~ and moft of the Church is without the Empire, enlarged more over other Lands. Mufr we turn Papifts, if they can but prove that once a General Co.uncil, or the Major part of Biiliops Was for them by Corruption ,. or Secular Advantage ? What Changes have the Majority oft made ? §. IV. Your fourth VVork of Univerfal Su– premacy, is [To declare what Ordinances 1rere re.;. ceived from the .Apoftles, tU lmpojitidn of Hands .tri give the Holy Ghoff, and [uch other~ ·. I. I acknowledge that .Baptifm and the Eucharill: were known by practiCe~efore the NewTe·. ' · .q 1 '. f!l ament
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