[ 4)6] Clergy are no Laws with us, till th~ King !h~li make them Laws. 1V. By this no Man can tell what degree of Power tbefe Foreigners will affu~e: As th~ Popes Ecclefiall ical Power is now extended to TeHa-· ' ments~ Macrirnony, Adulteries, Church . Lands, G:.. .c. Arr;ongChrifiians to vvhom all things are· fa,nctified~ they' may challenge almoft all. And \.vben it becqmes a Controveriie who n1a1'l judge? Certainly t~~e Supreme Po-wer is d~e su·prerne Jucge of t!Jelr own Rights. V. I think it will oblige ~ings, Lords ~nd ~IJ~ \vhen Summoned to Trave l out of ~heir OWC) Kingdoms as Mafefatl:ors to anfwer what accufa- , iionsare br'oughi againll: them. For ·cer(ajif lY a Supreme Judicature .mufi have its Font~ , ,\;here ~nen niufl: be heard before they are Judged, and whereall tbat are SJ.lmmoned muft anf~·.;er. Or · ~lie Kings and Kingdoms mull become poorSub– jeds to any Fellow that ~he Foreign· Soveraigq \viHmake his Chancellor or Legate. · VI. VVho knoweth net how' much the ,Go- . vernrnent and Peace of the State wi ll depend en the Government offuch an Univerfal Church Go: vtrnor? VVhen they have· ExcOtnrnun1cated the. :king, vv ill not the Subje~s the more difhonoq~ pi m, ifthey take the Excommunicators/Power ro be Supreme?. \Nhat \vork hath the Pope ma.de yEJ{comrimnicatiom ? Kingdoms have been e~-:gaged inVvar by it againH each other? Yea Sub· jett.s againft their Kings? Yea Sons ·ha ye depofeq the11· Fathers, as rhe Emperor f!enry s Cafe ac- . ~uainrs us. Yea when the Pope hath not medled, bithops ( ouncils have bafely depoH:d the hefl of ii-ipbs: ~s L;;~o·t·. P!~ C~f~ t~l~s ~~, and the En::- - ~ · nre1s ... f ._ ,j
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