t 2S 5' j · ~ · inane Government th~t is . Abfol~t/, dnd from which there is no appeal : And that this Society hath Le– gifl.ative Power,- and is bound but ·by the Laws made in its ow·n Ajfemblies : And that thefe .AjfemblieJ arc Rebels, a?Jd punijhable ~fnot called by the Prefidi:nt_:; And chougb Mr. D . h.ad the Prudence to ufe ,the .word Prefident 1:acher than Pope, -if ever he fpeak. intelligibly it's here. · And Mr. Thomdi~ (wh~m -he valueth as a found Pro tellant) Archbi{ho~ Bromhalt, and the reft of the Tribe, do openly affert the due Prefidence of the Pope , as Principium V nitatis and forft Patriarch. •~ . · : Saich Mr. Dodwell further,' Pag ~ 51.2, 523. '[SNp·– pofing thofe Presbyters thi!t~ ~hoft the Prefident h'ad invejted him in his Office by Prayer 4nd Impqjition of hands, and no Bijhops had .any more to do in his Confe– cration, than Kings have in the Inauguration .of out ordinary Kings-it will not follow that thofe Pre.sbyters who cho{e and_confecrated him, muft hau dny more Power over him'- Nor is it only true that this 1vay may be Jo-but indeed it mu[t be fo ;' whenever ·tht Perfon (o invefted is[uppofed to be in~·efied in th/! Sub preme Power, and,whenever the -$octety over whtch he is placed is alfo Independent on other Societies [As the Univerfal Church is] Su'ch a· Perfon crzn never be placed in hu Power, if not by the11'! who mu{t after be kis Subjeils, unlefs by his Pred~cef[or, .which· no Soczety can f afely depend on for a confta_nt rule of Sttcceffion. (And doth any but the Pope ·pre– tend to this Soveraign place).?;fn his own · SoCiety he can hat•e none of hu own Order-that can perform the Cere'mony to him, becaufe we '- fuppofe -Him . to be .,Supreme ; f!tnd there cannot be:two~fuch in one Society. (True: And you make it <your · fundamental · that: the Catholick Church is_ one fuch - S.!Jciety' ;. and fO n;n,l!l have fuch aSupreme). · · ,. Anu
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