[ 46o ] triarch and Principium Vnitatis , will do his part ~or nothing: And thj~ r ~iches .,of tp.is Kingdom is httle enough for the Kmg, Clergy, and People. We cannot fpare that which Foreigners will ex- ' peet 1 and have done in this Land). · · · XVII. While the tame Maq that is pere owned as Patriarch and Principium Vnitatu, is owned as 'of . . ~ greater Power in Italy, Spain, Germany, and other Lands, he v;ill be firengthened eo bring us to Con– formity with the refi ; and in time to obtain all his claim. XVIII.Are Strangers ·like to be fitter Ju:iges of the Matters of Englm_'Jd,Armenia ) Habaffi~,&c. than the Rulers .& Clergy ofthe feveral Kingdoms,who know the Perfons they muft Judge, and CJn hear both fides fpeak, and examine Wirneffes?&c. XIX. The old and famous General Councils · were not ca.lled to, Govern Foreigners and all the World, .but only the Empire that called them: And why ihould the Church Government now be any other, than Collateral with the Civil. XX I again and again fay , that we are S\vorn ·by the 01th of Supremacy againfi: all Foreign Ju– rifdiction. And by the Corporation Act ,-the Vefiry Aet, the Act of Uniformity, the ~1ilitia Att, ?nd the Oxford Oath, the Church andKing· dom is mofi folemnly bound, never eo endeavour any Alteration of Government 1in Church or State : And if fubjettiog King , Kingdom , and , Ulurch to a Foreign Juri!dittion, of fuch as pre.;. tend to an Univerfal Supreme legiflative and Ju– dicial Power, be not an Alteration of the Govern– ment of Church and State, I know not' what is : Nor what is -National Perjury if the National Endeavour or Confent to fucb Subjection be not fu~. . . . Add
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