• [ 410 ] - The Cafe is .fo grofs that I am afraid you will fay, I feign Reverend Men to be Mad. That which they fay is, That there u no Concord ·to be · had, nor avoiding of Schifm but by obeying the Uni– verfal Goperning Church, which u the College of all the Paftprs and Bi{hop1 on Earth, who have as fuch 4 :sflpreme Ponzer under Chrifl of Legijlation andJudg~ ment, which they exercife per literasfor~atas. . · There isno way to excufe this-but by feign– jog that this College of BHhops is to do thefe great works not by themfelves, but by a College of De- . legates or Reprefentatives, viz.. Either Cardinals ,or Patriarchs : or elfe qy redudng the 'whole .Church oh Earth eo the narrow compafs of fome !i!Sle Se~, ana·copdemnin'g mofl: of the Chrifiian · vvorld, that they may not feem to need them, for Legifiation or Judgment. And thefe I have fuffi- , ci~ntly confuted before. ' · · ·LVI. The Univeril Supreme Government ei- -~her of Council dr the College of the diffufed Clergy, is more in1poflible a:nd unpraCt:icable, and .muchworfe than the Soveraignty·of the Pope. ·• For, · r. 'fhe Pope is a .k.nown Perfon,-and it's - pofi'ible to find him ' to fehd to him ' (o near , from him. · -, _r 2. H~ is One:, .an.d it's P9Uible ~o know his Mind Without gatnermg Votes or Ltterti1 format.u ~ all over the Earth. . · , '· ;~ 1· · .Mofi may fend tohim and hear his deci~on ld.tl\eafi in an Age. r ' · 4· What he cannot do by himfelf he ·can de· . pute others to do. .... 5. He is ~lmofi always in being, and the Church need not be fo many Hundred Years headlels or ,without it's Soveraigq Power. 6. He ...
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