[ 398 ] I 5~ There is no one on Earth Antecedently Authorized ro be their Prefident ( what ever the Pa_pills pretend : ) And to choofe a Pre– fident , it's like fo many . fuch would hardly / agree. 16. It's already known , that they account one another Hereticks, or Schifmaticks, or Ufur- · ping Tyrants before hand : Some are called Nef– torian Hereticks, fome Eutychian or Jacobite He– reticks , fome Melchites , fome one thing , and fome another , and moft take the Papifis for Ty– rants , and Hereticks. both. And will all thefe ever meet in Council ? 17. Men are naturally fo much for their own eafe , ·anti fo much againfi Works of fo vafi dif. ficulty, charge and hazard, that a competent number of fit Men would never undertake it ; it being almofi equal to a Martyrdom, which even the beft Men will not undergo , till they are better Convinc~d of the Duty and Neceffity than any Man can truly be of fuch Univerfal Councils. • 18. le's known that all the Protellants; if not allmofi all other Chrifiians, fave Papills , do be'– lieve no fuch Councils to be neceifary, no ) nor lawful , but to be ufurping Tyranny, as challen·– ging the Univerfal Church-Government as a Se– nate. So that as there never was , fo there never will be, mufi be, or can be filch aCouncil ; un– lefs (which God fo;:bid) ~11 the Church ihould be again Reduced to anarrow Room. LI. They that would make fuch Councils ~· poffible by pretending that afew Patriarchs and fuch Biihops as they will bring with them, are · · · - .. · - - -- ·· - · · , the . - .
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