[ 412 ] they never fo made Laws , they Govern not as fuch, and fo are no fuch Governors. They only -Governper partes , in their feveral Precincts, as all the Englilh Jufiices of the Peace, Mayors, Bai~ Jiffs and Judges do,and no~ as an Arifi:ocracy. But ifit be aChurch now becaufe there is a Pope, fay fo, and hide ·not your opinion. We fay Jc is a Church becaufe there is a Chrifc and Chriftians ; and we know no other Matter and Form. ·LVII. They that affert aSupremacy in aCoun– -cil or College of Bilhops , do unavoidably introduce aPope. , . If they will call none aPope but him that is ab– folute and unlimited (and no Man aKing, but an abfolute unlimited Monarch) we will fpeak accor~ ding to commonufe , and let them fpeak as .their Intereft dic1ates to them, but rememb~r that. the Controverfie is but about the Name, and not the Thing. We take the French Church for Papifts, If they will .call them Protefcants, they are free. But if we are agreed what aPope is, the .cafe is plain, as followeth. _ · , I. Mr. Dodwelt (their moft Learned defender, if 'number of words or greateft [elf-conceit be the ·chief fcrengchJ tells you that if the Council be not lawfully called,it obligeth you rather to bring them to Puni!hment as a Rout or Rebels, than eo · ,obey them : And that none but the Prefident bath Pow.er to call them. (And remember yet that this good Man is no Papift.) And indeed who elfe but the Pope ihould call Univerfal Councils ? · The King in Scotland may call aScotch General Affem– bly,and in England a Convocation and Parliament; And, r. The Emperor of Rome or Conftantinople might call fuch Councilsjn the Empire as were · · then
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