[ j47 ] J ames his Self~depoftng, if this will not prov-e It, that he openly enaeavoured to fettle th~ King– dom under a Foreign Jurifdiction againfi the Laws and againft their ~ills, and fo to, alienate the prime part ofSoveratgnty. . . . ,And lhoulda Foreign Jurifdietion be afferteg, we lhould all be confounded by the Impoffibility of knowingwhere to find it,or how to ufe it,if it be Arifiocratical: Where the Pope is may be known: Eut where to find a General Council of. all the Chrifiian World, ·or an EccleliaJlical Parliament or College, or the Major Vote of all the Chur- ,, ches we know not. · And feeing Biiliops ar.e all ( fave one) the Sub... jeets of other Princes, blame not Kings to be un– willing to be their Subjects, when thereby .they will be fubjeeted to thofe Princes that Rule them, or can fway them by Preferments~ IV. And I bdieve not your Doctrine that the - Major part mufi go for this Governing Church. ' For; r. It will never be agreed who be the Nations or Perfons tha_t are to be accounted Parts; - all will ·claim a Right that are called Chrifiians. · And can all Chrifiian·s or Minifiers judge of their pretenlions ? · 2. It is certain that the Greater part have often erred in Counfels, and out of them : The Cafe of the Arrians proveth it: And the Greater part of the Bifbops have been fomecime on /one fide, and fometimes of another; and have turned and re– turned in the fam·e Age ; as is Qotorious in the <;afes" of the Nefiorians, Eutychians, Monothe.. lites, the Council ofChalcedon, owned anddif6wr.~ ed, the T~ia (;apitula, !he Cafe of Images, and o- ~hers. · - ·· · · 3· It. . .
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