- . [ 141 J • · IX: Pat.riarchs and·Metropolitans, and Provin: dais or Diocefans in one Empire or Kingdom, can for Number,. Seat or Precedency, jufrly claim no power ofGoverning Foreigners; nor fubjett Bi– fhops of that Nation, but from the Soveraign. X. Legii1ation is the firfi Effential power of Regiment : Therefore none can be an Univ~rfa.l Legiflator that is not an Univerfal Rector. XI. As an Univerfat .Monarch ( Eccleliafiical or Civil) is the abfurd .claim of an Impoffible thing, and open Hofiility to all Chrifiian Kings and Churches, fo an Univerfal 'Ariftocracy in Councils or Patriarchs, and Bifhops, is yet more abfurd, as clairning a rpore notorious Impoffibi· · lity than the Pope cloth. . XII. An Univerfal power of Expounding or Judging ofChrifis Laws by Regent Authority, or of being fuch Keepers of unwrit.ten Laws, feem– eth the moft Eminent part ofLegHlation; it being more to be Judge what is Law, and to make or determine of .the fence, than to make the bare words : And fo the Bilhops lqould have a higher Regency than Chrifi: Official Judges Expound the Laws only in their limited Provinces, and for the deciding of particular Cafes ;, but nor to be the Univerfal Determiners of the fence to all o– thers : None but the Law,makers can make an Uqiverfally obliging Expofition· ~ XIII. · The infiance of the Apofiles power will - not prove an Infiitution of afiated Univerfal ·Le– giOative Arifio.cracy,, or Monarchy. For, I. It is evident that Chrift firft chofe and inftituted ' them, as his National Minifiers, by the number ofTwelve related to .the Twelve Tribes ; and by the keeping up jufi that number after the coming Z 4 down . ' . ~ I
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