. ' 'ife of their Power : If in all, the Chu-rch is ex,; tinet or ungoverned , either thefe ·I 5oo Years, except during your SixCo.uncils, or all the time that we have had no Umverfal Government by them : ,Jf but in fomeAges, why nor in rhe reft ·as well? And is not the Church Hill the fame thing in {pecie, and for the fame ufe and ends. . .VIII. ·You fay all Herelies are Contiemned a!~ ready. Anfw. I. Yes, Virmally by God's Word; ReRum eH index fui & Obliqui. z. But if you fay Ailually in their form, How great i.s your Mifiake! The Devil could invent a Thoufand mora yet. · l\1y long Catalogue of Errors to be forbidden in my Book of the Churches Concord will cell you of enow that are too poffible. · z: If the ufe of your Ruling Church ended fo long ago , why doth not the Church end ? or . how are \\;e to be Governed by it, when it doth not Govern ? I never heard from it fince I was born by any Literte formatte. To fay, I mufiobey, the old Canons , is to fay I muft obey a Govern– 'ment that was, and not one that now is and Go~ verneth. The Pope I could poffibly fend to :, Old. Councils I can read : But how to hear from a College of all the Bifhops on Earth, that never fee or hear of one another or me. ; and that are broken into fo many Seets, I know not. I have my felf, with fome Wife and Able Divines, Pleaded the Caufe that you Plead fot~, to cry what they could fay to me. : And they anfwer.me with Laughter, asifl were Difiratted for talking of all beingGovernedby all the Bilhops on Ea1·th 1 as one ruling College by Confent or Vote. IX. You lay much firefs on the Church, being (our Mother)~ And Solomon faying, [Obey the Law_ .. . . R . tt~ · ' ' . . ' '
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