[ 2~3 ] ' Rulers of all the ,World : And yqur reafon is, ' becaufe it ,intimateth that Biihops rule like · 'Kings. Who can Difpute on thefe terms ? Did I not in the fiating of our Qyefiion agree, that it is not the Power of the Sword , but only Eccleliafiical · Power of the Word and Keys, that we Difpute of? Did I not fiill profefs to .you to fpeak only · of this ? And cloth comparing Princes Coaetive Government with iJ:, only in thei! extent, neither of them being o:ver all the World , conti·adiet this, or wrong you{)y unjuft intimations? IV. You take the words '[" .Ariftocratical– .,,, Suprea~-Vicarious, under Chrift , Legijlative] to ~'be invidious, and you difown them ; I. Be-' ~ " caufe they intimate a forcing Power like Princes, " 2. Becaufe Chrifr only is Suprearn. ' But I. It is not de nomine that we difpute, but 4e re ; and I underfiand all this while that we had no other quefiion to debate. 2. I delired frill nothing more than that you would fiate your affertion in your own words, that I might ufe n0 other : You tell me /'OUr own words are [Collegi;tm Pa/forum] I tell you again, that nameth only the fubjeet; Matter of the Power, where our quefiion is de forma, what i5 their Power which we mull: obey. - You next tell 'me ["It is a College of Paftors. '~having a Miniflerial, Ruling, 1udicial Power over (c the Vniver[al church A ·I take up with your own / words :Only remember that before you :.tiferted a Legijlati·ve Power ,(of mutable Laws) and now it is qutjudici'Clltif fo,then we owe noObedience to their Laws, hut to .their Sentence according 1:0 Chrilfs Law: Howt~n i~ o~ey~tJ£ them. the·ouly way of Concord?. · · But • ~ ·v • .• ' .
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