' [ 2~9 j 1-iow can I be cleared from the guilt of Perjury,~ and DiQoyalty; if having· taken the a Oath of Supremacy, ahd fubfcribed according. to ·the Ca– nons, &c. I lhall plead for the fubjecting of the-· King ·and all Subjects to a Foreign Pon'er in Spiri~ tu~tls f when the Oath difdaimeth it, and the Can.t.faith,That[aliV{urped and Foreign Powerhath. no Eftab!ifhment or Ground by the law of God, an4 is for moft jt-tft Caufes ta!«n away-mad abolifhed> and therefore no 'manner of Obedience or SubjeHir;m with.:. in Hu Majefties Realms and Dominions U. due to :ANY SVCH Foreign Power. · .. . And alllv1inifters fubfcrlbe c an. ,36. agairill al! Foreign Power, as well in- all Spiritual or Eccleli~ afiical Things or Cauf~s, as Temporal. · And Articl. 2.t. General Councils may not be ga– thered together without the Comma,ndment a11d U'ill of J'rinces: (And when will all Princes, Orthodo~, Heretical , Mahornecan , Heathen , Enemies .in VVar, &c. agree td gather them out of all the VVorld?) . And when they be ga.thered together, , (for .u mttch m they be an Ajfemb!y of Men whereof . all be ,not Governed with the Spirit and Wordof God J they may err, and fometime have erred even in things pertaining MGod; wherefore things ordainedby them as necej[ary to Salvation., have no Strength nor Autho– .rity, unlefs it may be declared that ihey be ta/zen out of the Holy Scripwres. (And doth Chtii'ch- l1nicy~ Concord, and Salvation, lie bn things nor necef– fary to Salvation?) If you fay, th~t none of this fpeaketh againfi: Foreign Ecclefiafl:ic~l Power,fuch ~s the Apofl:les had 5 I anfwer, r. Not againQ a Foreigners PrMching and Baptking, and Celebra::. ting the Lord's Supper, if he be where trJe are,, ( a~J there he iJho Foreigner :) . But againft all ForP-~gners ·" 'S z proper
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