• I [ 282 ] ' Pag. 5l:6, 517: He goeth on 'afferting Afifm~ · ' bli~s_called without t~e Prefident to be u17lawju!, nulltttes , and .by the h~gheft common intereft to be punijhed (fo far mull: we think the · Councils of Nice, EpheftU, &c. to be from · binding us) and fairb, [" Indeed the Bijhops could not renounce thu "Power without ·diffolving the Society by making the "Exercife of Government unprafficable , or without ' "changing the whole frdme of Government; For– " who muft have it?If none had had it, kow could the ''Society be {ecured, that .A./femblies.Jhould meet if ''none had Power to oblige particular Members to be "prefent at them when called ? If ai any time no "meeting were afcertained, /the .G-overnment rvo1tli·be " diJ!olved ? An f. 1. Did this reading Man riever hear of the • ----- Claim of Princes to call. Councils in their Domi– nions ? Did he not know where ·he lived? Did he never read the late 'ACt of Parliament in Scat~ lt:tnd, that afferts all Church-Power' in Exteriors to be in the King ? Nor any of the Protellants Confeffions or Divines? Should I think he bad quite forgotten all tbis·? or that' he had ' the craft to take no notice of it, as that which was too hot to handle? -- 2. And was it not a .piece of Wit to take it . for granted that fuch Affemblies (as he calleth the Councils) are fo Effential to the Church, that the Government and Society ·is diffolved without them , or without a Ruling Prefidems Power to caH them ? And the Pope mull: have a Power to oblige all partkulars ·to ·come when he calleth them? And no w<mder when (unlefs Men be Cheaters) the whole Power Efcheateth ·into th~ Pr~· )identl hands '(phen_-thc founfit ·is diffolvcd; wh1chh IS • wen I
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