[ 4'"'5 '] Hundred or aThoufand Years ago (and that cmJY ofmen of one Empire called by their own·Prince) ihould be taken for the Vnifying Conftitutive Sove– 'raian Power of the Univel'fal Church which ·now exihech,and that the Body can live many Hundred Years after the Head is dead, and yet beaChurch of che fame Species~ · .· · .- . · ·. , · And' for them that fay the Biiliops of all the Earch · have a 1us (Conveniendi and are a Virtual Council; It"is but to fay (could they prove it) that they are a Virtual Head, and not an A~ual,and fo that we have no Actua1 Univerfal Church, but a .Virtual. ·' . · , And as for the newDr~am that theyare Actu– ally the ,Supreme UnifyiQg Power, and ACtually Govern the·whole ChriQian World per literas for ... mattis, ies a fad cafe wuh Chrifiians when fuch deliration needs a confucation, and [adder if fuch a Land or Clergy as ours mull: remedilefly Perilh by believing or following fuch a Dream. Shall , all the Bia1ops of Ajia, Africa, Europe and Ame- . ric-a, out of the Dominions of the Turk!, Perfiam,, · Tartarians, Indians,Papifts, Pro.teftants,AbaJJincs,&c. meec 'in defpite of their involuntary forbidding Princes? How, and by whofe Call, and where and .when ? in how long time ; and who {llall bear their Charges from next to the Antipodes, or from. 4ba[Jia, Mexico, &c. Mull: they be old Men fit for Council, or Boys fit for Travel, when the age ofa Man _will fcarce ferve for their coming together, their bufinefs; and their return, and exe– cution? And what's all this td do .?, Is it to make , new Unive·rfal Laws? Hath not Chrifi in Nature a:nd Scripture giv'en ps ·enow for the Practice of ~hriitianity, without all this- ado of Congrega:. - ! , • . , . , . I , . ·· . , . , , • · · - • tmg /
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