[ 27i ] "theymujfnot judge of the Intention of the Bifhop by ,. I am wholly of your " the retd Will of God*. 'Mind, fpecially as to the Pope and his Biihop&: But I'll judge of their Power by the Will of God. Suppofing us.to be [Proud of the Sujfrages of the Schoolmen, pag. 492.493. He fufpeaeth, "Itwt« ''rPZther Picque than Confcience that brought th~m to " it. (Alas1Were not the SchoolmenPrelatical enough ? Many of them were ~iihops, and one was a Pope at leafi.) ' · / And the Council at Bafit that allowed Presby– ters deciding Votes, and St. J~rome, and the Re.;. · formers, all fall under his Cenfure for the like 5 viz... That Neceffity put rhein on it as aShift, or elfe the Pope by the Vote of Bifi1ops would have carried it ; and he jufiifieth not the Neceffities choice, but coacludeth, Pag. 496, 497· "If it bt; '' fofPicious whether the Men who then followed thefe " Principles did embrace them out of a .fincere fir;Je of . "their Truth, then tiJey .cannot be prefomed to have "been Principles of C~nfciencc. Which if they were ,"not, this is fujficient to foew that they are not fit '' Meafures of the Power that w.u affua/ly given by "the Bjjhops of that Age.] I confefs, I had thought that the Papift Bilhops Intention had not been the Meafure of the Power of Bifhops ·or Presbyters : And that Mr.Dodwell hadnot been fo muchagainfi: the Council of Bajil as unju£1: Confpitators by m means to ovettop .the Pope. ' . , He faith truly, Pag.5b5. [" Moft certainly they '' who weret of this Opinion, (the Papifis) could no~ "intend to follow the Dotlrine of the Wicklefifis and "Waldenfes, who had been lately ce·nfored for main– '~ taining the Equality of-Bifhops andPre1byters.] No '- .,..,- -- · ·· - ·· not "'
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