' ( 4I I ] 6. He hath fome Cob-web iliadowofright, in .the Tu es Petnu, and Tibi dabo Claves , and Pafce pves : But as to the faid Co+lege and Council, all this and more is contrary. So that I do deliberately profefs , that if I did believe that there were any Univerfal Supreme Reetor or-Minifierial fpecifying Vnifying, Confti– tutive Head or Governour under Chrift, I lhould (oon refolve that it is the Pope , there being no Competitor .fo little uncapable as he. · Ana all the Papifis fave a few Flatterers ac– knowledge that the Popes Power is not abfolute · and unlimited, and that he bath need ofGouncils as the King hath of Parliaments, not for cbnfiant Government, but partly for Legijlation; which belongs not to the Pope alone, and partly for Me~ dicinat reparation andexecution;when the Church is difeafed. · So that they that are for the Pope as the fiated Supreme,. are for Councils /alfo, and would ufe Couqcils better than the Arifi:ocra– tka1, that give them the Supreme Government, would ufe them. All men know that they are rarely in being. Even Bifhop Guning faith he re– ceiveth but the firft Six General Councils : To fay, tlfe Church hath been headlefs, or without it's Supreme Government jult a Thoufand Years, and is fo fiill, is to make it in:vilible in an Etfential Part. · · · · Is there now a vilible_ Catholick Church, or is there none? If none, why would they filence and aamn us all for not obeying that which is not ?. If there be, where and what is the ParJ regen:r , the confiitutive vifible Supremacy? If in a Council thete is none. If in the College of diffufed Bi– U1ops all ovel"theWorld, tqeyare no Governors, ·- · · · · · · · - · -· they / .. ' '
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