. . [ 2)6 J ding to your felf lince tonftant. Pogonatm his fixth (or feventh) Council? And wa~ it only the Church of thofe Ages that was bound to Govern ? Then it was they only that were ATtthoriz..ed, or had the Office and Power : · For Obligation to the Work (though not ad hie & nunc) is Effentiai td the Office as well as Authority: Or will the Perfor– mance of the Biiliops of the Fourth and Fifth Cen– turies excufe all· that fucceed them to the end of the World from any Performance ? Why then no~ from all Pafioral Guidance? And are they not then degraded ? XVIII. We are againfl: Singularity in Matters ofFaith: We believe that all ChrifisChurch ihall never -err from any one Effential of Chrifiianity or Communion; elfe it would thereby ceafe to be a Church : But we believe General Councils (fuch as the Empire had) have erred fo .far as to con– demn each other of Herefte. We perfwade all Men to believe as toe Church believeth ; that is, to receive that from the Apofiles, quod ab omnibm ubique & femper receptum fuit, which the Church received and delivered as from them with known common Confent, and to .fufpeet odd Opinions, Novelties and Singularities. But Protefiants againfi: Papifl:s comn1only ufe thefe Difiinetions : I. Authority of aGovernor by Legijlation, and 'Judgment, or either, is one thing. 2. DoElorat· Authority (like a Philofopher in a School ofConfenters) is another. 3· The Autho– rity cif Witnejfes (which is their Obliging Credibzli– ty) is another. 4· The Authority of a Steward, or Keeper,ofRecord~., is another. ). The Autho– rity of a Herald, ot ·cryer, or Meffinger, (to pub– Hili Laws) is another. , 6~ . -And the Authority of ... · · · · · ··- · · · ContraCfor S' . . - - '·
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