[ 408 ] ciary Executive l;'ower, which is ever fubfequent 'to the Subjects aCtions ; but it is a part of the an– tecedent Power ; If it he but InftruEling it is the .ac1 of a Teacher ; If generally obliging it is the act: of the Legi{lator's : For it is his Prerogative to be the·univerfally ob1iging Expofitor of tbe ~aw, who is the Mak.er ·ofit: A'nd it's more w Give the fence, than to endite tbe. bare words. So .that here is no Univerfal 'Eegiflation or Jorifdi– .etion left for aSoveraign Council: Nor any that th~yare c?pable of. . . . ~- .l LV. Much lffs' can all·~·the Bijhops out of Counc# {iving a~ fl't!_f!r the Earth; M one Lo/lege , Senate or • 1 Arijfocracj;, be the Suprdne Go'!Jerning Power of a/~ the ChuYche-s and Chriftians on Earth, having no po/fible c ai_acity thereof. : . . ;· ·If out'- 'new Church BHhops and Drs. had not fixed' on this as the Univerfal Supremacy, I 'fbquld ' have expected a!harp cehfure for judging anyfo– . as to ·own it. The fa1r.e Arguments foremenr.ioned . confute it? · · · . : ··Arg. r. ·The diffufed College of Bifuops out of Council never did m.ak._e . Laws' for the Church Univerfal: ·Therefore'rheY.are not its Law,mak£rs or Supreme Legiflative Rulers. . . · · Arg. 2. · They have never ( rriuch 1efs:always) exetcifed an Vniverfal decijive 'Judiciary Power: Therefore ·they were never appointed toiexercife it. The Church'could not obey that Power that was never ufed by fuch as ]uClges. . ' . " .llrg. ~. If God had given them this Power, ~e would fomewhere have,plainly told us- ofit, ~d Hireeted them and us how ·eo ufe it : But this he bath notdone. .. ;,,, .::· .. r : ·.· •• ' . . l.i... ... .. . ~- .. ~
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