[ 402 ] that were for Loyalty : ,ye the Councils ofBi- ' ihops without, if not againft the Pope, depofed the good ,Ludovicm Pins, and have done much to the corruption and confufion of the Churches ; as I have elfewhere proved. · . . LIII. General Councils are not the authorized or lawful Supreme Government of the Univerfal Church, nor have an Univerfal Legifiative or Ju· diciary Power. · This many Protefiants, ~nd after all Dr. Barrow have unanfwerably proved. ' Arg. r. If there never was, nor mufi be, ·nor can be a true Univerfal Council, then- fuch~ a 'Council is not the Churches Supreme Gover· nour. But the antecedent I have before proved. _ Arg. 2. That Government \vhich the Church was without for three hundred years, is not the juft Supreme Government of the Univerfa-l Church : ( For the Church is not the Church without its Supreme Government. ) But the Church was without a General Council at leafi for three hundred years. Arg. 3· That Government which rarely exiH– eth, and hath not exified near an hundred years,, or, as fome ofcar Adveriaries fay, a thoufand, i-. not the Supreme Government of the Church: (For then the Church would be dead,. and- no Church in all that time ofvacancy ; for the Spe- · des depends on the Supreme Government:) But the C::hurch' bath fo rarely had that which our prefent Adverfaries themfelves take for a true General Council. Ifthe Council of Trent were any, they have had none fince. Yea Bilhop Gu.. zzing owneth but the fix firft Councils called Ge– neral• And if there were none'tince, then the - Cbur<:h
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