{ ij6 j . preme Governing Vifible Humane Power over rhe Univerfal Church, is a thing that I need not cite their words further to prove. Mr. Thornciif?t, · Bifhop BromJJall, Bifhop Gunning, Bi(hop Sparrow, Dr.. Saywell, and the refi of that mind; are not aG1amed of it. And it is a General Council that by fome ,of them is fuppofed ro be · this Supreme Power : And when I have ,proved againft 1ohnfon · , that there never was a General Council of the ; Chriftian World, but of the Empire, I can get none of them ro anfwer me ( fave that when tbe Empire was brokenJome of the pieces came toge· ther for a Job at Florence,&c.) But it is the Pope's right, faith Bifhop Bromhall, to be Prefident and Patriarch of the Weft ~ ( which Thorndik:!; and others largelier infifi: on as the neceffary Princi– piumVnitatis, which turned poor Grotim to them· / for Unity. But l confefs I thought .Mr. Dodwe(l had been more f'Or a Councils Power than I find be·is. · The·Protefiants believe no Supreme Governor . . of the whole Church but Chrifi. Dr. I z...Barrow of the Unity of the Church , hath fully overthrown - ihe fietion of a human Supreme Arifiocracy as ·well as of a Monarchy: But an l1nion of all the , .. parrs in one Head Chrifi, we all believe, and coniequently a Communion among themfelves. · VIII. But what Mr. Dodwe!L's Judgment is of the Power of the Council, and whether the Supre– macy b' ·n it, or in the Prefident, I will tell you only in his own words; fuppofing the Reader to know that the Papills fo far differ ·among them- · felves, that I. Some are for the Pope's Supremacy alone, the Council being but his Gounfellors, as . fo~ttte-for the Kings) ~he Parliament being b~c • , • · . · h1s
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