[ '289'] wber~, we fuould have commenced aSuit fd~ 6ur Native and Chrifiian Birth-right, and put you eo prove quo jure 'John, Thomtf!, Peter, &c. ,meetinga thoufand years ago we know not why, nor when; nor by what Authority, did give_away the Birth~righc and the Souls of an hundred millions not then in being, that never confented or heard of their names, nor were bound to know that there ·was fuch a City as Rome, Nice, &c. or fuch men as Leo, Tharafim, &c. ·in the World. And if you had anfwered us according tO the Roman genius with Gaols, or Fire and Faggot, we would have ap:.. pealed to God whether you and all fuch will or, not; and when God judgech, do your worft., But would you think what a ftrefs this Humane Catholick layeth on innovating Prelates Compacts? He adds afcer all this, · P. 6. Whoever they were that nominated the per[om, whether the People; the Clergy, or the Prince, or the. Popf; yet ftilt they were the Bijhops that performed. theOffice ofConfecration; which was that which wa.r the~ thought immediately to confer the Power. An[. You were ' 1 not then in being, and there~ fore did not then think it.·- And you knowmens thoughrs fo long/before you were born no better than others ; Op(Jrtet fu~/[e memorem. Bad you not · memory enough to make your Preface me€t with your Book, where you fay that Presbyters did Confecrate Bifhops, and yet did not give them the Power? and fay that as to the Supreme Prefident., ( we know his name J it mufl flill be otherwife.. . Yet this 'fundamental Humanifi: conclude~h~ 1 p. I ·I. [ !hey nzuft be gmlty ofdifPbedience to the Di- ·t vine Governmept, ....__ Guilty ofgiving or abetting & Divine Authority in/ MenUwhomGo~ ha~ ne.ve~ ;~ •
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