[ 5~9 ] Confutations of Popery ; and fo have many French Papifl:s, and fome others. The Convocation in England bath a lower Houfe of Presbyters: Elfe in Ab&JJia one BHhop were infiead ofall the Cler- · gy of the Empire : And two or three were a . National Synod, in a Nation that bath no more Diocdfes. They can {hew no Corpmiffion for fuch a Reprefentatiye Power ; therefore they have none fuch. XLVII. Much lefs have five Patriarchs, and a few Metropolitans, or fuch near them as they will call Authority to pafs for the Reprefentatives ofall the Chrifiian World, and to confiicute a General Council. XLVIII. No Paftors or Churches can give power to any to reprefent them abfolutely ; but only limitedly to lawful things,for commongood: And to oblige them no further or longer to ftand to what they do, ' than the common good requi– rech it. What a man may not do himfelf, he may not authorize another to do for him : And no man may himfelf oppofe Truth or Duty, or crofs the common good, or affert any falfi1ood, or confent -to any fin. And that which accidentally maketh for the common good in one Age or Councrey, may be againfi it in the next : And then we are obliged againfi ir, whatever our Delegates, An.: ceftors or felves did for it before. ' XLIX. There was never in the World a Ge-· neral Council ofaU -the Bifhops on Earth, nor of . the Reprefentatives of all the Churches : Even the fix or eight, or more old Councils now moft honoured, were General but as to One Empire, (yea far from that, ) and not as to all the Chri~ ~}~n W9rId! ' ' · · • This •
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