\ [ 2-~0 ] and to be certain of their Votes and Sentence i An9 if I knew that I had all the Bifhops on Earth for one Opinion, I am not certain whether mofi of the Presbyters (being an hundred to one) be not againfi: them ; and in Engla'(Jd the Presbyters are part of the Convocation, which is the ·Repre· fentative Church. Had I lived on 'Earth when the Council of Nice was conrradieted at Sirmium, Ari· - tnmum, Tyre, Milan, and the ·Vvorld groaned' to find it felf turned Arrian: Or when they were A– nathematizing each other, and fighting at the firfl: Eph. Council:Or when,the 2d Nicene were condem· ning the fecond Con/f. Or wh~nVigilius wa·sdrag– ged by a,Rope at Conft. by }-ujfinian's Command, and the Patriarch of Aquileia {et up againfi Rome; or when the Trull.Canoos were made by Men now called Monothelites; or when innumerable Mono- .thelite Bilhops met under Philippicm, &c. I could - not poffibly have told how to know the Govern~ ing Judgment of the College pf Bifhops that live all over the Earth. Nay, when you ownno Coun~ cil fince the Sixth, why will no Importunity in– treat you to tell me, whe~her for thefe Thoufand Years lafi the Univerfal Church wasGoverned by one College, and what Governing Att this Col- ' ledge bath fo long exercifed over all the Chrifii· an World? And how it was known? And whe– ther their Liter£ format£ are,to be found written ? And where? Or- are only tranfmitted to all the World by Memory ? and by whofe Memory ? and of -who~ we may all enquire of them with certain SatisfaCtion ? Or whether theChurchbath been this Thoufand Years no Church, or Ungo– verned. . You fay the Council at F,rankford condemf!_cd that -~ ~ \
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