/ ' • [ ~4) ] Yet as the Laws of Chrift promulgate by the Apoftks bind all Nations to wh~m they are ~evealed ; fo we grant that the fame Laws ofChr~ft -~ declared by Councils, or Preached by·any tingle _ Minifcer, bind all to whom they come: And that every Minifter ( and Chriftian ) being a Mem– be!" ofthe Church Univerfal, his Doet:rine tendeth to Univerfal Benefit whi.ch yet giveth hi_m no Univerfal Regent Jurifdiction. As I remember I have faid all this before in my Letters to Bifhop Guning when you were his Se– cond or Witnefs of our Conference : But the In– yication ofyour Difcourfe, yvhich I iliall now give you my thoughts of, maketh me think that __this repetition is not unneceffary. If you will read Mr. Th. Beverley's whole Duty of Nations, you may fee more ofmy Judgment. · Suppofing yoqr Book to be in the hands of the 'Reader, I {hall fo~bear tranfcribing, and only tell you what I dilfent from, and the pages where it i~_ contained. , _ . . I. I diffent from your Opinion ofa Humane So– veraignty as over the Univerfal Church on Earth, ( whet_her you feign it. to be Monarchical, Arifco· qatical, Pemocvat-ical or Mixt, ·I matter not. ) ' ' II. Confequently I deny your Dotlrine offuch anUniverfal-Legiflative power in Man, and of any Humane Pniverfal Laws. , · · · liT. And Ideny all'F~reign Eccldiaftical Juri.f– qiction; that i~, .That ,tpe ~lergy of ~ny ~;me- or .., · · · many ,. / J
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