' [ 32·9 ] Laws, the better part are rather to be called·the Church , becaufe the Old J;.aws againfi .Popery are , not yet Repealed ; T-hough yet fome late Laws are to the Old, as poyfon to a living Man: So if they be Denominated by Power, the Innovators · have ·been the Church at leafi: thefe 3I Y·ears. For that Party Ruled , and ·had the Countenance of the Kings , who chofe them. And indeed in the Days of the differing Emperors ( ConfttJntine, Con– ftaminus,Vale.ns,Theodojius, .Arcadius, Marci'tm, Leo, Zeno, and · the re£1: ) that ufually went for the Church or Orthodox party, which the Emperor owned : The upp.ermofi will have the Name. § I4· Though the French and Engli.fh (afore– faid ) .defigned 'a Coalition, the long poffe.ffion of their different ways, unavoidably hindered them· from an immediate Union ; But they were forced to approach by leifurely Degrees : England would not fitddenly turn the Liturgy to a Mafs,Book, nor France fuddenly turn the Mafs-Book CorreCted into Frmch: But what fair Approaches were made. and v;:hat further intended, Grotius his ~ounfel tv1agnified by both Churches, and the pre– fent praCtices ofthe French declare. .The Council of Grotius was .to bring down the , Pope to Mode~ation , that .he might Rule but by · the Canons, and not be above Councils, nor de– prive Kings nor Bilhops o1 their Rights, and that the Lives of the Clergy be.Reformed, and School Niceties left indifferent, and the Lutheranes as Re– conciieable Courted to a Concord, .and the un– reconcileable Calvinifts brought down by force : But the Lutheranes are not fo Reconcileable as they imagined ; Princes that are once free, are loth · ·to become Subjects,to a F.oaeign.Priefihood. ,. §z): ,
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