. . '( 44) 1 gather into aGeneral Council a~d Co~marid all • the Land to Gbey them as Law giVers, mail Mat– tersofHealth and Phyftck? and might invadethe Hofpitals at their pleafure?And fo all the Churches' and Church ·Affairs on Earth mu.R be governed by Priefis ofForeign Lands. · ·. ... · . VII. By firit mifiaking,and then fallly claimjng' Apofiolical Power: Becaufe Chrifi chofe a few whom he firfi perfonally taught his Will , and then endowed with the Gift 'of Infallibility, by his Spirit, to Preach fjrfi and Record afcer, his. DoCl:rine and Laws , to oblige all the World 5 .therefore they pretend that ordinary Biihops who hsd no fuch Spirit , Office or Commiffion, may alfo make La\vs -to bind all the World. And ~when every fingle Apofi1e had this Office, Power and Spirit, but they yet a while lived together at ']eruf~tlem, till their difperfion , they ·pretend that at Jerufalem they wer~ aGeneral Council,and that all Biihops therefore may Govern as a: General Council : whereas the·Apofiles Miffion was Inde– finite, and not Univerfal, (elfe they had fiBned in ' not going into all the World.) · And it w;:ts eafie to .Guide the Univerfal Church, while it was ·al:. mofi all at ']erufalem or near them. Ancl their Office as to Legitlation differeth from common PaHor-s, as Mo[es the Legii1ator's did from the Priefis, who were but to govern by his Laws, and not to make more. . ' VIII. By pretending a neceffity of Judging and Ending Conuoverfies, and therefore at having_ one deciding Judge or Judica ture for all tbeWorld. As ifany \-vould be fo mad as ever ro expect that all Controverlies about t,h , Myfteries of Superna– tural. Reve la~ioa and tbe unfc~n World (bould be · · • ended
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