[ 278 ] If this be fo, 1. Mark that this man difclaim~ eth any other Divine Infiitution than by the So.. ciety. z. The People that have no Power, being the greater part .of the Society or Church, give the Biil1op and Pope, and Council their Pow~r. 3. If the Clergy ,~·ere all the Church, the Pref– byters give that Power to the BHhops and Pope, which they bad not themfelves. ·4. All runs on the falfe Antimonarchical and Anarchical Prin– ciple, which I have confuted in liook!Jr, that the :Body 1nakes Power by giving up their own Right. 5. Then the General Councils and Pope have no Power:' For the Body of ~he Univerfal Church never gave,it them, but · the Emperors, ( fave as to Teaching and Arbitrations.) 6. Then in thofe Countries where the Body of Clergy and People put down Bifhop,s, there Bilhops are put down by fuch as had Power to do it. For I. If man may fet up Diocefans, Popes and Councils, man may take them down. . · Yet the ProteU4 changeth his face, and prefently Jappo[eth [that the whole Right ~f thefe AjfemblieSI co14/d nrJt have proceeded from the bare confent of the, Society, but from the aClual Eftablijhme111t of God.– No Affimblies can difpofe of t.he Rights of fuch Socie.. tie!, bvtt fuch tfU are lawful ones according to the Con{tituti(ms ·of that Soc~ety.-A'.t out o[Affemblies ~hey have no J>ower to aCl who might ttCf in them, how many foever aj the S.ujfrages, and how freely fle11er t~cy had , ~een gotten·; fo all tho[e Meetings, how nu: h~erof-u foe1)er, for a.Cls of Government, if they be not Legal, they add nothing of advantage to the power of 1 particulars jingly confidered. They art not in the ' Eye of the Law, AJ]embfies, but Routs, and their con– eur~not Confent, b'ut Confederacy: .And tU it t. : . · . I ,.1 were· '.
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