[ 422 ] • pope; 9r ~uch - an Enemy a~ the rurk, it Wer~ \vell done, a11~ bad tpe fame reafons and power as a Council of Bilhops. Biihops may not under· take Jurifdiet:ion in other mens Bifhopricks, no1· J(ings in other mens Kingdoms. Bilhops are bound f~ pre~er the upiverfal good, and fo are Kings. · ' IJI. 'And therefore the· meafure ·of fuch Com– munion by Confultation, by Meffengers, Letters, or c~~ncps, is, ; I. The pp~lic~' good' ; ·z. And the capacity of the Commumcants. . ·we have Communion with all Chrifiians in 'A;baffia; Armenia,' an'd ·all the Earth, In Faith~ Hope, Love,and all th~ Effentials of Chrillianity ; But if Joh'! or Joan here commit Adultery, and be excommunicated as impenitent; we are not bound to fend Meffengers to the Antipodes, or all the World, to teH them of it; no nor if a Bia1bp or his Chaplain turn Heretick : Nor are, they bound to fend hither to enquire or examin~ it.·..: And 'if the Excommunicate come to Arme– -;:ia, and defire Cmnrntinion, ~hey are jufiifiable: for ,receiving ·him, and being ignorant of our Ex– communication. But Neighoour Chriftians and (;hqrches live fo near, 'that they are capable of converfe : :And therefore .Synods and Commu– nicatory Letters are ihere ·of.great ufe: ·. And fo far as 4n Excommunicate man is like to intrude hho''the Communion :of bther Churches, it is meet that hjs Excon-irnunication be publiibed, and that other Churches r'eceive him hot without ju!t fatisfattion. ·' :And fo Councils · are ufeful as fat ~s propinquity i1ukerh ·men'- capable of viGble E'oriirrmni'on ·: Efpeciztlly to Paftors and Church~s .in one Kingdom, \•d1e1:e' th~ Unity of the Civtl GovernixJ e~n\ giretL~ them more capacity and nee~f.. ~~) :, • I > ' ). ' ' ; ' . ' 1 • ; , ' ; • . • • • • '· . '· , ' • fity ..
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