r 3s7J Commiffion, may reftft a French Army if they Invade the Landby K. J' s Commiffion ? ( Or will they turn Nonconformifis ?) · ----·----~------:----- Chap. XXIII. Pofifcript to the Reverend'Dr. Beveridge~ - , · S I R, . . § 1. THough you were Biibop Guning's Wit~ · nefs (with, Dr. Sayrvell his Chaplain ) when he-~ conferred with me, I was not willing to belie.ve that you were of his mind for a Foreign 'Jurifdietion, either Arifiocracical or Democraci-' cal, or Monarchical, but to my griefam now con– vinced ofit, by your publilhed Convocation Ser-' mon: Having too copioufly here and elfewhere confuted it ( fpecially in my t"!O Books againll: William 1ohnfl!n alias·Terr.ct .the Papiil: ) I !hall go on the·fuppofition that you will there take rtocice..– of it: Efpecially of thefe two Reafons ~gainfi it. · r. That the Killgdom and Church is fworn againfi it. , · - · · · 2 . That apretended Univerfal Humane, Sove.: · raignty or Legiflative and Judicial Power over the whole Church on Earth, is the Grand Ufurpation.. of Clirifl:s Prerogative; which no Mortal Men · are capable of: And if this be not Popery, there is no fuch thing as Popery : And ·if the Pope be jullly called Antic~rift, or·at leafi a Trayterous UfUI·per againft the R\ght of Cfirifi and Kings, it ..is by this: Ana iffucha Power be really given to _any, the Pc>pe cannot be excluded,·at leaft fi·om the Univerfal Primacy. '- . · - § 2• . I doubt not but the Love of Unity~nd the (enfe 9f th~ wofu!. caf~ ofzthe Church by Sett. sd; • · an . "/ "r I ~
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