Baxter - BX1765 B39 1691

[ 269 J " in an inviftble. one , C,onftHing only of eleEf P~r: · "fons. . ' In thefe, and many places of both h1s Books, he tells us, that the Catholick Church is One Body Politick, and bath on Earth a Supreme humane Go• . vernment, which I have noted in his words in my Anfwer to him. \ •II. Pag. 488. .''Only the Supreme Power iJ that " which can never be pre[ume4 to have been confined. (Ofwhich more in his words which I have con· fuced.) , . III. That the Intention of tfie Ordainers is tl1e true meafure of the Power of the Ordained, he copioufly urgeth ( and proveth as much as the Ringing ·a Bell will prove it , by loudnefs and length.) Pag. 542. ["Therefore the Power ailually "' recei..,Jed by them, mJJH not be meafured by the true "fence of the Scripture,but that wherein the Ordainers under .flood them.] Now the Ordainers of the firfi: ' Protefiants never intended them Power to abro– gate the Mafs,or Latin Service, or Irnage-worfhip, ot to renounce the Pope, or gave them qny Power but what was i,nSubordination to the Pope, but bound them to him and his Canons, and to the Mafs, and the other parts of Popery. To prove this, he faith, [Pag. 489. ~' It is very notoriom that "At leaff tt little before the Reformation, Aerius and " the Waldenfes and Marfilius of Padua andWick– " liff were Condemned for Heretick!, for ajfer'ting the "ParityofBifoops And Presbyters : And it i5 tU note• "riom that every Bijhop WtU then obliged to Co~demn "all Herefies, that is, all thof"e Doctrines which were (( 'J~ then cenfure,d for Heretical by that Church, by '~which they were Ordained to be Bifhop~-----Our Pro– ~~ teftants themfoh;e~ do tJ_9t pretmd to any .s~c~ •

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