Baxter - BX1765 B39 1691

[ 427 J that fumma Potefias !tnder Chrifl-, which bath the ~hiefdov.ern?JZent of the Vniverfal Church 'in Vnity 1 per litei·as formatas, and t~at our Conpord /y~th only in obeying this Pow~r, av4 it's Sphifm not io ~mite in fuph Obedience. · ' · §3. II. Moreover the former Church of·Eng-: /andand Parliament~ thought that the Oath of Su– ·premacy which 'excluded aForeign Jurifdiction, did mean as well the Foreign Jurifdiction of the · Pope as Preijdent ofaCouncil, and that Council with hirn, and of the Pope ap Patriar~h and lrin– cipi~J.m Vnitatis, and of the Bifi1ops of Italy, Spain, France., Poland, Mexico, Turky, &c. as of a Pope above Coundls. And they were not willing a- . gain to SubjeCt the King and Kingdom to Foreign Priefiss nor to be cheated imoSlaveryby the bare ~ame of [the fiath~lick._Church] and the [Ecclejiajltcal Go'Vernment.] . · § 4· Ill. And they indeed took the Pope to be the Anrichrifi, (fpecially for bis Ufurping an Uni– verfal Kingdom or Governing Power proper to Chrifi: J And therefore were angry~ with Arch– bifhop· Laud and his Chapl~ins, for leaving out all fuch \Voi·ds from the Litui·gy to a11oid the Pope's difpleafure; of which Dr. He; !in (ubi fi.p.) giv– eth you an account. See but Bi£hopDowname's large Latine Book to prove the Pope Amichrifi, who yet hath written the firongliefi for Diocefan Bi-_ . iJJops of any man ( i_n my Judgment.) that ever ' ·I read. · ·' ·. · · ; § 5. IV. And they thought that the' DoCtrinal differences were vei·y many and very great (and in dive·rs , Points I believe they tbougbt them · greater th:m 'they are) fee the huge Catalogue gathered .by Bii11op Downamc in the End of the ,, -. · ~refaid

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