[ 34° J ' X. Had the Emp,ire conti~ued one Polity, ·anJ had made the Bilhop of Rome the Primate as to his -Sear in Councils, and the fa id Bifhop ·had been a capable Perfon, and had not Challenged the Go– vernment or Primacy in order of Regiment"over the whole Chriftian World but in the Empire ' only, as. the ArchbHhop of Canterbury doth in E ngland, ,I would have been none ofhis oppofers: All this I grant you. · § 4· But ( .premiGng for · the Expli~n of Terms , that we take the words ['Regiment, Laws, .Authority, &c. in the proper political fen're, and 'not equivocally for meer advice or confent ) I add as followeth. · 1. That as the Univerfal Church on Earth,hath but one Soveraign Jefus Chrift, fo it is one Body Politick, in relation to no one Vnifying Head but Chriftt and hath no one Sub/fitute Vicarious Chr~fr, or SubftiMte .Soveraign Government, Monarchical, Ariftocratical, Democraticalor Mixt. 1 -- IL The. Soveraignty of one Chrifrian King,· Emperor or Senate, (in Ariftocracy) over an U ~ nited or Confederate Chriftian Clergy and I..aity , as SubjeCts ( each keeping to their own Place and Wcrk ) is the Unifying Headfhip of a National Church, which is nothing but fuch a Clu·iftian · Kingdom or RepubliCk : And that Chrift bath . owned fuch National Church Power, and hath infrituted and owned no Power of Humane Go– vernment over it on Earth : And therefore as pretending to Univerfal Jurifdiction is Trea{on a– gainft Cbrift, fo the claim of Foreign·Jurifdietion is Hoftility againft Kings and States. · Ill. That Foreign Councils of Biihops and Dyers· of Soveraign ~fi!l'e~ a~e i\uth9rizeCd for . ( - 9ffi~ I .'
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