[ 14 ] I • I 'ral Councils are fo far above him as to reformhim and his diforders 4. That he is not Infallible alone, but in conjunction with the Church or Councils. And though fome have {poken and written againfi the firfi and fecond, Barclay and many others have confuted them, and the Parlia– ments have burnt their Books. And this is the Moderate Popery of France. · . vVell may I call them Papifis fiill ; for' I. They renounce not a Humane Univerfal Church Sove· raigncy. 2. They allow the Pope to call Coun– cils, and Prelide,' and to be the principium Vnitatu, and Patriarch of theWeft. 3.They know that when no Chqrch-Parliaments are in being, the Univerfal Executive Power rnufi be continued, or the Uni– verfal Policy be diffolved : Therefore they allow the Pope a Right of llnivetfal Government ac- · . carding to the Canons, but not Arbitrary ; and therefore not above Councils : So that if thofe that' are .for the King 1 Rul}ng by Law, and making Laws only in and by Parliaments, be yet for Mo.. narchy then f;oncil. Conftan. Bafil, and the French are yet for Popery. · A.s to our Reformation it is fo fully recorded by many and newly by that excellent and moderate Hiftorian Dr. Burnet, that for the time he writ'es I fhall only tranfcribe a few Notes out of his A– br~dgmenc. Page 87. The Oaths which the Biiliops fwore to the ·Pope and the King were found fo incon– fifrenr, as it appeared both could not be kept ; vvHich caufed the Popes to bedifmift. , Page r r3· An Act was 111ade for EleCtion and Confecration of Biiliops ; in iliort, The King to, pame one, and the Dean and Chapter in twelve days
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