[ 44~ J If there. be any rightful Univerfal Governor on Earth, it is either a Pope,· or fome Patri~rchs~ :Or a General Council , or the Pafiprs of all the Church on Earth diffuted ': But it's .none ofthefe Four ·(as I h'ave oft proved , and ;nn afi1amed eo repeat.) ' · - . . }.,. ' Chap. 4· The 'Deceits that are Pleaded for an · Zlniverfai Humane Soveraignty. · § r. TH E great means hY which the Popit11 Clergy have been thet:nfe1ves de~eived, / and then deceived much of the Chri!lian vVorld, ·are efpecially thefe following. · t .By a falfe Notion of the Vnity of the Catho· Jick Church: As ifit were Vn~fied' by One Humane Political Soveraignty Monarchichl or Ariftocracical (Pope or Univerfal Council) \'vhich bath Power ofGoverningall Chrifiians on Earth, by Univer– fal Legiflation and Judi~ature ; and not only by Chrift, who indeed is its only Uoiverfal Governour. · · · · · · ' ' IJ.. By extolling i'vlonarchy as the bell: nieans of Unity j and fo inferring the Papal Monarchy ; fo did Carob-M Boverius to our late King Charles in Sp-:tin : .As if Princes were fo ,weak as .not to di~ iHnguifh a National and a Vniverfal Monarchy ? ~et them ~ry this Argum~nt with any Papifr King pn Earth [Moparchy is the beft .Government. Ergo rhere ~1o"tld be One Monarch of all the_ Earth, whofc 'Stibje£t you 11tnd all other Kings muft be] and fee whether they wilibe!io fooled into Subjection. : '; III. By dreaming of fuch a difference between " · ·. ' · · ·.. ' ... , ' ,, ' '" ', • Civil - ' ' . '
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