( 4)Z ] An[. r. If it come all to one in the effed, whY. ' do you contend for fo much more in the Caufe ? 2. · God bindeth Princes and 'States as much to Concord , and yet their voiuntary Treaties and Dyers, and aSupreme Government over them, do not come all toone. 3· God cloth not bindall Churches or Chrifii– _ans to agree in more thary he himfelf hath corn· rnanded them. _ And therefore hath given power eo none on Earth, to determine what more all !hall agree in. . 4· The ,Greater the Councilsare c.tteru paribm · the more all Protefiants reverence them, becaufe they fignifie the Concord of many : But, 1. We lmow that there are none of therri Univerfa-1 as to the World, nor ever are Jike to be. z. We · know that the Greater part are ufually the worfi; and that at this day the far greater .number of Chrifiians on Earth (Papifis, Greeks, ArrneQians, -Nefiorians, Jacobites, &c. ) are ·lamentably 'de– generate, ignorant and corrupt. 3. And weknow that as God hath not made the greater number the Governors ofthe leffer, fo neither cloth he bind ~ or allow the lefs to confen~ to them to their hurt. 4· And when Councils for meer Agreement, 1.v!11 degenerate, and Ufurp aRegiment over Dif– fen'ters, they change their Species, and bind us.} not to obey them~ but oppofe them as Ufurpers. · · XI. The laH deceit that I {hall het·e name is, Their pretenceof the mifchief of lettingSinful or Heretical Kingdoms go uopun i!bed, when fingu– h r Perfons mufl: not efcape: Therefore there mult . be a Supreme Power onEarth-eo correCt or puni!h ' l~a tiona l Churches or Kingcoms.. You
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