) ' ' [ 2 3s ] ' ing and Unifying ; and hath no Deputy or Vicar under him, AriHocratical or Mona'rchical that bathany {uch Capacity, Power or Obligation. _ 2 . Therefore.the Church though Compagina~ · ted in all its parts, is only one Politick Body of C~1rill, and not ofMan, and bath no other .Sove- · ra1gn. · 3'· Therefore neither Pope, Council or Col– lege of Bifhops have any Legiflative or Judicial Power ovet the whole Church Collettive ; ·but only the.feveral Paftors are fuch to their feveral Churches. · · 4· Yet are they obliged to keep the Unity of the Spirit in the Bond of Peace and Love; and to do all in Concordant ObfervationofChrifis Laws. And all Churches and Chrifiians .to helpoth~rs to their Power. · · 5. And ,when they afford fuch Counfel, or help for Concord to other Church~, they do it not as Lay-men, but as Pafiors, in the Univerfal Church, though not as Pafiors to other Mens Flocks. As Phyficians of feveral Ho.fpitals, -ana Judges of fe– veral Courts, or Mayors of feveral Corporations, or Kings of feveral Kingdoms may advife for Con.– cord, wi~hout Ufurping each others Govern· menr. 6. As God only by M.ofes made the Jewia1 Law, and thePridis were not to make more, but only to Rule by it, it being a Prophetical ·and Me- · watorial Work : So Chrill: only by himfelf and ·hisSpirit ( of Infallibility and Miracles ) in the , Apofiles, made the Chrifiian Univerfal Law, and no Men are to make more f.tch, ·but to Rule by that fo made. · · , 7. As Ge.r[on truely told the-Pope, Chrifis own . . • Law
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