' . 6. What if \"·e prove to him, that according to his very Canons, the Pope and Biiliops that he damns us for not owning, . are no Bi(hops, having no true Call and Title to that which they pre- ' .tend to? . Will you have yet ~mo'ther of his Self-contra· ditlions ? P. 7· [ I canno~ ~ut look_ on it as an .Argu– meJJt th;~Lt God never intended to oblige Particulnr Churches to as great a dependence'on other Churches as th,at is wherein he has obliged Subjects to depend on ' Jheir own Churches, becaufe by his contrivance of things it does not follow,that Separating Churches muft be left as def(itute of the ordinary means of Salvation · on their Jept~tration from oth,er.Churches, as particular Subjects are on their feparation f'rom their own ChurchCJ- Abating what oblig~ttions they have btought on themfelves by their awn Compacts, God has made rhem equal.-There is no Wtft.Y ofjudging who is in the right, but b.y the imrinfick merit of the Caufe. 1 really believe that the true ori,ginal defign of tho[e · Compafls whereby pttrticttlar Churches have volunta– rily[ub.mitted to re{triilions of..._their original Power, , ·was ONLY that every particular Church might ha.ve per Cenfures confirmed in ~tll other Churches-in reference to thofe who were orip)nally her own Subjells; not to gain a Power over any other Subjeils but her own; nor to fubmit to _any other Power, &c. Alas! And have CompaCts by we know not who brought us all into the fnare of the unpardQnable fin? Though Chrifi died for the World, he faveth none but Confenters: And can Men in A {ia, in Towns whofe Names we poor Countreymennever heard of, make Laws to Damn all to the Worlds end, that obey :them not ; and this without our-own Confent? , .. "''. f ; I ( ~ To
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