' I -Letters I recite his Verbal Drftourfe with me he asks, Where' have I [aid it. - ' Did I not find him adefigned Hider, I wouldnot ' fufpett defigned Fraud , but ihould be 'very·glad that he fo much as intir:nateth in his Quefiions a denial of fo many Errors; But who can choofe but f~fpett his Sincerity in fuch feeming Denials, who findeth fome of them 'unfincere. E. g. fie asketh (Pref.) Where did I once call Thomas Aqui:. nas a Saint l T~is fiartleth me: Many times have my Ears heard him call him [Saint Thomas] and never once heard him call him otherwife. And doth he now (eem to deny it ? I never faid that he fo wrote, but fo called him. Had I not reafon to be~ieve that when Q_t;_ oft calls (the Church of Chriff in the{ingular Number; One Political Body · under One humane Government which all muff obey, and not queftion, whether it's Laws be agreeable to the Law of God]' that he meant the Cpurch Catholick, and not a Diocefs? There are Thou– fands of Dioceffes ; but the Church that he fpake of is but One. Had I any reafon to belieVe that when he talkt of the fole right of the Prejident to call Co1mcils or Affemblies to makg Church ·Canons, that he meant only Diocefans l When as a Dioce.. fane bath no Bi{hops under him to Convocate? And whether it be not Convocate Bilhops to whorn ·he appropriaceti1 .this Legi£1ation , let the ' Rea.dtr judge as he feeth caufe. . §4· But I abhor making any Man thought to own what he difowneth. And I gladly receive his , jntimated Qenyals in thefe Quefiions ; and tender them to the Confideration of all that are for a foreign Jurifdietion.
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