[ 458 l Turks,fo it is at Conftantinople as to the ·over•ruling of the Choice. . ' But that's not the worfl:: But by our Subject:ers Principles the five Patriarchs have .filch a Power in Councils, that it's no Council without them,,or the greater par.t of them. And four of the five Patriaichs are SubjeCts of the Turk, and the Pope is the fifth or firfi). And will not the Turk then choc;>fe them,and fo be Mafl:er of our Religion,and of all the Chri!lian World ? Or if the Pope get the greater Number of Bi(hops the Matter \Vill not be well amended ; as the Trent Council hath affured us. And when the Empire was over the Wefl:, the Emperor 'had a chief band in chooling Popes : And who lmows how foon it may be fo aga~p, and , · the newway ofCardinf1s be caft by? And fo we thall be the Emperor's SubjeCts. · IX. We know already that the far greatefl: part of theBiG10ps of the World are-lamentably Igno– rant and ErroneousMen, · and keep up Error and DiviGons in their feveral Countries,viz.. in Greece, ...Mofcovie, .Armenia,- Syria, Abaffia,&c. and in ltalv, Spain, Poland, Hung!ftry, . Germany, &c. A_nd are we bound to obey them becaufe they are tbe greater number ? In Council or out of Council they are the fame men4 What ·Nationunder HeaA . ven·bathBifhops jufr of the Mind of thefe with us in England? orfo found and judicious.as ours · have been, and fome yet are ? And mufl: our Eng– lifhBilhops give up their Judgments to an erro.. neous Majority abroad? Is that our thankfulnefs to' God? · X. H::>w little difference is it to us , whether e. g. Iwage-\YOrfhip ) 1 'ran[ubftantiation or as~y . . lQ
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