. ·~ 2·30 J under Chrilt, and can make Laws for 'all the Chri· fiiart' World. :: . ,· · · · · • • · 2. How is Gods Law fufficient in foo Genere, if it leave out that which is to be commanded to all the World of Chriffians? How is Mans Uni– verfal Legillative Power proved, (any more than an Uni_verfal Civil Soveraignty ?) Or how dif;. fereth 1t from Gods? · 3• Mutable Things are not of Univerfal Need or U{e: Thefe By-Laws (like thofe of Corpora~ tions) are only the Work of particular Churches or Countries. E. g. One Tranflation of Scripture~ ·one Metre or Tune of Pfalrns, &c. will not fit all the Werld that have feveral Languages, &c. ; : Upon the whole, I ammore coQfirmed by longer Confiderations, I . That to affert a Sove– raign Vicarious Churf:h-Power over all the Chri~ Jtian World, is to make a Church which Chriil: never made. · .:2. Ar:td ~reafonably to fet up an Ufurpation of · b1s Prerogauve. · .'3. And tO plead for that which de fail~ never was in being. . · - . 1 · 4· And to lay the Ground of heinous Schifm and Perfecution, by profecuting:irnpoffibJ.e,'iferms · ofConcord and Communion. J 1 :· 5. A~d ~o m~ke th!s the nece~ry M_ediu": qf our beltevmg m-.:Chr1fi, or knowmg h1s Word and Will, is to 'fubvert the Chrifiian Faith and Scripture. - ,, · , · ' · ·. · . · .. , . 6. And as one Pope cannot poffibly, through Natural Incapacity, Govern all the Earth in Re... . }igion, one Collective ·and ,Arifiocratical Sove– ra.ign of all the Bifhops on Earth, is fo incompa– ·~·ably rrore uncapable, that I wonder that any ~ Co~ . ' . f l . ;.;. •
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