I [ 2 39 ] and keeping Concord in convenient Meetings or Councils ,may ' be faid to Govern all the Church (as-all the Magifirates in England Govern all Eng– land in Subordination ' to the King.) But it is of One Perfona Ecclefiaftica in whom the Church is relatively called One, as Venice is one Common– wealth with relation toone Supream Senate,which ruleth the·whole. 1. Sln~w me any Literas formatas of all .Biiliops in the World before the Council of Nice, yea, or ever (we<: to this day ? 2 • . Whq.t need the Council meet, if all Biiliops <;9utd .~now each othersMind and Confenc with– Qut it, e. g. Did they all agree about Eajfer-Day before ? Or about the extent of Patriarchs Jurif– cdietions. ,3. 'There was never a General Councilin the Wot;ld ; It was.calloo General only as ro one Empire:: ·The Emperors.that called them, had no Power. _ elfewhere : The Subfcriptions fbew you that none other came; yea, and but a part of the Empire. Few out of the Wdl: were at any great Councils.· 4. Heticks have had as great Councils as ever ·had the Orthodox, and as much Confeming. And the difallowed have been as great as the approved; Sola navicula Petri, as I faid out of Binnim efcaped Drowning at Eph. 2'. . 5· There never mufinor will be an Univerfal .Council of all the Church hereafter., as I have elfewhere proved, And is the Univerfal Regent Minifierial Church extinCt thefe Thoufand Years ? ,How can we obey a Power that is not ? 6 . But you fay, I confefs that the Roman Empire was foven Parts of the Ch1trch: A nfw. Your h~fie overlookedmy exception ef theEmpire of Abn.f- . fia, • , /
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