'· [ 2.75 J 'Readers, you fee here the Core of the Churches difeafe, and chief of our differences: I. By the ' 'Church they mean riot the People, but the Pre– lates and ,Councils headed by their great Preft– dent. . 2. They fuppofe thefe to be God's Proxies, and that Godqoth what they do, and they fo ob– lige God to fi:and to it,and men to take it ,as God's act. 3. They fuppofe thefe Prelates and their Pre– fident ali~ impowered by God, as the Apoftles were; and therefore God by his Proxies now may undo what he did by .his Proxies then. Do you now' wonder if Pope and Council by ·Canons haye power from God to make new Canonical Scrip– tures, and new Univerfal Laws for the Church; yea and for the World? And if thefe may undo , the ScriptUre ' Laws and Infiitutions, and make _other Sacraments and Wor!hip in their Head ? ·But Protefiants have long ago proved, r. That there is no Vice-God, and that God bath no Proxies or proper R~prefentatives with whom he bath entrufi:ed .his Power fo, as that their word mu!l: lead, and he will follow: .Buc only Embar: faders, whofe Memge is prefcribed them by God, and they are to fpeak and do only what he 'bids them, and he will own it~ and not that which they add of their own, or which they do againfi: his ~ord. · 2. That the prefent Pafl:ors have not the fame -power as the Apoftles had ; who were commif– fioned todeliver Chrifi's Commands to theWorld, and enabled for it by the Spirit of Infallibility and ' 'Miracles: Even as the Jewifi1 Priefis had not the , Power ofMofu, nor could change a tittle of the Law, but only keep it, teach it, and apply it. Y.II. That he and his- foll0wers are f~~u ~ ' r z . preme·
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