[ 180 ] Power, .does by the common Rules of a/1 Societies, Jo naturally Efcheat, M the Prefident of the .AjJemblies. Even in the .Ajfeinblies aVer;eration u due to him, for, hi1 Office above· all other lvfemberS, but much more fa 'qut of tbe .AJfeJnblies, where none u in a lik,flly way rto be able to oppofe him. He whO' ca//1 an .AJ!embly muft have fome advantage 01./er all the Members caRed by him, that he may oblige them· to convene, and it u 'I'Jecejfary to thePublick__t hat they be obligee{ to meet when , .they are fo called, that i.r, when the }VDGE ofCir- , .cumfta!Jces' think! it necejfary, &c. But ~here ~ none who can pretend to this advantage, I do ·not fay, of ']urifdiClion, but even of Authority and Revermce, iibov~ his fellow Members, befides the Prejident~ · Befides, the I;ower of (uch Ajfemblies expires with · ,the Affimblies themfelves: fo that in the intervals of · ..llf[emblies there remains no more of that Power, &c.. lJitt the Convening of Ajfemblies i.r an ail ofiAutbority, in' that very interval, and therefore cannot agree to any but the Prefident, whofe Authority alone can be ante– tedent to the meeting of the Affimblies ;· (a-that ifit be the rtght of any it -muft be his, becaufe n,Qne bejides him u capable. of it. : . · ,· .' . An[w. 1. I)id Ho(tm of Corduba, or Euftathius, .Antiochenus, or C;,ril Alexandr. Anatofit# Con/A&c. call ~he Councils of Nice, Ephefus, &c. or- had an Antecedent right to it ? 2. Hath no King or . Parliam~nt a 6ght ' to call a Convocation in Eng– !-?nd? j. Have not K.]1uites, Jewel, Crak§nthorpe, Bucbjridge, !Jilfon, r;arlton, Abbot, Field, Andrews; ~md other Englii11 Bifhops and Divines, aqd, Cht:J.,.. . l!Jier, Sarleel, (;hen:mifiu.s, and therefl: abroad, fully proved that the Emperors called the General .Councils, as did the Spanifh and French Kings, ~rg . th~ -EWP~I9r Provincial Q.~Jes. _. 1-· D<?th n.o~ .~ :. ;. ~. f• :· · · . .ftvery 0 l1 .• ' . ' ;.: ? ; • :-'
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