I . [ 28 I ] every Conformifi Subfcribe to the Articles ofRe· ligion, which fay, that General Councils may not be called but by the Will of Princes ? Though Mr. Dodwe!l have' the plain ~onefiy not to be · Ordained or Subfcribe thefe Englifh Articles, . Mr. Thorndikg, Bi{hop ~Bromhall, Bilhop Gur;ing l f?t;. Saywell, Dr. Park_.er, &c. ~ fuppofe did'; 8ut let us hear him further. " And this is 'more certainly true. of him who htU '.' a right to pre{ide in A./Jen:bties when they are con– '' vened by Virtue of his General Right to pre[ide o;;er "the whole Society, ,as well when Ajfemblies are not ''Convened .U mhen they are , than of him who u '.' chofen by the particular Ajfembli~s foP their parti– '' cular Occajions. .And he who hM hu Precedency ''not by virtue<of any partic14lar Eleffion, but for ''term of Life, muft have fuch a Prefidency as I am '' fPeakjng qf. Not only the .Ajfemblies COflVened by '' ,him are in thu regar4 lawful; but alfo ne AJ]em– ~' blies are lawful but what are called by bim, be– " caufe ·there is no o~ber way of- making them law– '' ful, but tbe lawfulnefs of their Call; nor any ''Power to Call them' diftinCf from that of foch ·a ~-' Prejident• . · · . Do you \vender · that this Man Conformeth pot? Or do you not wonder that thofe Subfcribe and are called Protefianrs that are of his ·Mind? If they can a'nfwer the Articles, the King and Par· .liamenr, that fay the King bath Power to call Synods, what do they make of their Readers that obtrude fuch Baronian fictions on us, without I once attempting to anfwer Protefl:ants, who with all credible HiHorians , prove it pafi: all modell: ContradiCtion that 'Emperors were the ordinary· Callers of theGeneral <;o.uncils~ and not ts€ Preti~eQts or pope. ' r . ' ' it pag7' . . ~ . ,.
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