r· j6) J ons rodi~e pr~vaiied ·againll: his Ch?rity , for that rvtifchievous hurrfulnefs' in which he ferved the Subtilty of Sheldon ,and the fiercenefs of Morfey, and the Deftgns of Papal Courtiers : But I hear that your 'Piety and ·Charity prevaileth againft ,the evil tendency of yourmifiaken Doctrine: Though Mr. Thorndi~ threaten E-t1gland, unlefs they Re~ form the, Oath of Supremacy, ~ confefs I wiili it 1 refior-ed, and amDifpleafed with tho[eScots that have caufelefly quarr~lled with it; and fo helpt to _open ·a Door to a:Foreign Jurifqiction, whicff the Kingdom is Sworn againft. · ' Since the writing. of ~11 beforegoing , I firfl: read your two great Volumes of Canons t and your Anfwer to Dall£U5. In the Prqlegomena of the firft, to.my Grief I find you more exprefs for an Uni\ 7 erfalLegiflativePower andForeign Jurifdieti– on than in yourSermon : And yet not: at all telling us ., where to have accefs to this Univerfal Sove– raignty for Judicature , ouc of the times of Ge- ' neral Councils, nor how to know but by believ-' ing your bare word, what Councils are our llni- . verfal obliging Laws, when you c~:mfefs , the vaft difference of the Eaftern and Weft ern numbers, nor how to know what our .Religion is , whiJe · we know not what be our Laws : Nor how to know whether the Church be extinct, V.' hen it hatb no human Head , by the Ceffation of fi.1ch Councils; nor who mufi caltth~m , .nor whence, nor what is their Conftituti.ve !\1atcer;. only you fay,they mufr be caHed out of, :all the Chrifiian World: But need not all be there? And wil'l a Call make a General'Council, if the Men come not ? And can they come from all the Dominions 9f fhe .~bf1/lif1~1, .A_rmc?}j_f!f!l,, '!l~i!J, ~~rfi!ns, kfuf-:. · f07Jttet, ~. '
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