Baxter - BX1765 B39 1691

[ 45'7 J prefs Maud,s inEngla11d,<:S ...c. Iri ad ordine Spiritualid all will fall into the Foreign Soveraigns hands. They mufi: he the Soul, and Kings but the·Bad~ .. . . . 0 VIr. It ·will unavoidably follow.that Kings and Kingdoms mufi: be fubjecred to Foreign Princes by this pretence ofa Foreign Church Jurifaiction. For he knoweth-litdeof theWorld that knoweth -not that to be true which Dr. Peter, Heylin (on the Creed ; of the Cath. Church.) citeth out of Socrates, that fince Emperors were Chrifiians all things dependedon their beck or will : Will not they cbufe Bi!bops or Rule in the choice.? Will not they over-rule the choice of fucb as are robe fent to General Councils; as King James chofe the Six that went hence to Dort? Is ir not known that it is the Excellency and Merit ofour Clergy ro be obedient to rhe Kings Will ? And is it not fo in the reft of rbe VVorld '? Therefore .thofe Princes tha rcan command the greateft number of Bi{bops, will be Governors of all the refi: of the VVorld, both over their Souls and Bodies. , VIII. I defire it may be well confidered whe– ther the Government of all Kings, for Soul and Body, will nor fall into the hands ofMahometaris and Infidels, or at Jeaft thecomefi prove hard be– tween tbern and the Papifts. For it is no {mall number ofBifhops that are in the Maho1necans Dominions ? Turks; Ivfoors ~ Perfians, Indians, &c.– And 'if they know once the advantage ofnumbers they can make more when they will~ Even one to every Chrinian Congregati.on. And as Ludol– phm tells us of the Patriarch of Alo:andria 1 that any ignorant forry .FellGw gets the .place, that ~an purc11af~ it py f'avour a~d !vfon~y ,2_f tkhe -... ur s, _., I . .

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