[ 240 ] Jitt ~ which Brierwood faith , is now as great as ' Italy, Germi:tny, France and Spain : and was in– comparably greater heretofore ; And you may gather from Damianus a .Goes , Alvarez. ; and efpecially Godignuw. de rebus .Abaf!inorum, that , they had Chriftianity from the Eunuch men~ tioned A&. 8. And it's certain that their cafe was much unknown to Rome it felf, till the Portugals · and Oviedo's late accefs. And though now they give fome Preerninence to the Patriarch of Alex• andria, that is but fince the Banifi1rnent of Nefto– ·rius and Diofcorus , who thereupon carried the Interefi: of their Parties without the Empire into other Lands. Of .Abajfia fee more in Ludolphm fince come out. 7. Either this Vnum: CollegiumOmniumEpifcoporum mull: rule the Church Univerfal by aMajor Vote, or.by Confent of all Biihops in the World. If the former, where !hall they meet to Vote? who fhall . gather them ? how many Years or Ages will it be doing ? How !hall all Chrifiians know that they are truly gathered? Shall we, till we know the Major Vote of all Bitbops on Earth, fufpend our Obedience ? and have no Faith, no Concord till . then ? Ifall muH: Confent, or 'almofi all, the cafe ' will be fiill harder, how 'to procure, and how to know it : May the Heretick keep his Herefie tiU all the Bifl1ops on Earth condemn him per litera; format.u .,or otherwife? vVhen e.g. the Nefiorians or Eutychians or Monothelires have the greater number of Bi(hops one Year or Age, and the le~er' the next:, Is Bifhops Confent thedetermining rtF . ling Power ? - · .. . 8. Either this One ruling Church is necelfary in all Ages, or only in_fome~ or at l~afi the ex~r-· • " • Glf@
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