-- I "[34!] co·rrimunion for mutual Counfel and Concord by ContraCt: and Agreement, and have no juft Jurif– diction or PoHtical Regiment over particular Sove· raigns or their fubject Con~regations : Though in Councils . they retain their ptoper -Power at home. - ·· r · IV. The Foreign Councils agreeing on things . profitable to the common benefit ·of a11, Gods own Law.of Love, Unity, Concord, Edification and publick Regard and Peace, forbiddeth the particular Bi!hops and Churches caufieily to- dilfent and affect fingularity : But if they agree on things hurtful and dangerous to any of the partiq.llars, they are noti to be obey.ed, nor yet if they claim Jurifdiction inftead ofCommunion arid Contract: ~ But every Prince and Paftor rnuft: Rule their own. As Kings will not c;>wn aForeign King or Council .ofKings, who !hall Ufurp a Soveraignty over them, much more,if over all. . . V. That all Forcing Power that the Clergy can· claim by Canons or Mandates in Chriftian King– doms, is only from the Prince ( or State ) as they are .authorized by him as his ~'Officers, who only hath the power of the Sword ; and not at all any part of their Pafcoral Office. And therefore ( as Grotius in that excellent Book de Imperio fum• . Poteft. cir~ Sacra bath !hewed) Cl~rgy-Canons are no Laws, but directing Agreements. ' , VI. 'Ihe Canons of the Greateft Councils called General, were Laws to none without the Empire, unlefs Foreign Princes or Pafcors made them fo : N_or to any within the Empire, but by the ?ove-. . ra1gns Act as they are forcmg, and the parucular Paftors as Directing. VII. Before.the Divilion and Ruine of the Emz 3 ,pire:~ ..
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