[ 3o4] Law is fufficieht for the Governtbent of the Church ( Univerfal ) elfe Chrifi: had not been a perfeCt: Law-giver: And they that pretend by Supplements or Emendations to add or do better are not his Minifiers but Accufers. · ' ' ~~ Therefore thofe Popes and Councils that ·) have prefurned to make Laws for the whole Church have Ufurped Chrifis Prerogative, at;td are falfe Prophets or Traytors againfi: Chrifi:. 9· Therefore none fhould own them as fuch, nor is it Schifm; but Duty fo f~r to difown rhem. 10. Nor ihould any own thefe Bifl1ops as fuch; .who own this their Ufurpation. As no Soldiers ofthe Kings Army fhould follow thofe Captains I who fubje[t themfelves to and take Commiffions from an Enemy, Ufurper or Foreign Princes. I r. .The Power of Biiliops under Chrifi as to Laws is only to keep and teach Chrifis Laws, and Rule by them, and determine themfelves of un– determined circumftances or accidents, which vary as time and emergent occafions vary, and are unfit for Univerfal Obligation ; and this Power they have only over their fingle Flocks, though by . contraCt they may join in fuch things -with others for Goncords fake. . . . I 2. When the cafe of many Churches is alike, and their common good requirecl1 Cortcorc,i in :my fuch accidents, all are bound to obferve fuch Con– cordant Agreements, by virme of Chrifts com•· rnand for Concord. . . I 3. But if on this pretend! Paftors will turn 'Agreements for Concord into Laws, and make that feem' needf~ to ,Unity which is againft it, and hurtful to the Churches, no Chriftians fhould encourage .their Ufurpation by Obedienc~· , . it · · ' - being
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy OTcyMjk=