t 461] Add to all this. the unavo1dab1e effects of this Opinion of the Unive~fal Soveraignty,vi~. z.It en– gageth the Owners of tt to condemn all the Prote- .fiant Churches,becaufe they own no Univerfal So- ' veraign,nor ·the Pope as Patriarch or PrincipiumUni– ,tatu : yea, and to difown almoft all the Churches ofthe \rVorld befides the Papifis, as Schifmatical~ 2. They hmfi Condemn all the Protefiant Mar..: tyrs who rejected the Pope abfolutely , as dying for RebeUion. 3· They mufi needs cenfure their own-Princes and States as Rebels, who fubjett not therpfelves to this Ufurped Soveraignty. . 4· They will pervert all the Scriprures for Uni.: · ty, and Peace, and Qbediel)Ce, ·and interpret it, · · as meaning this Ufurpation. ' . . . 5. They will think ic their Duty to ufe their befi Endeavour to fubjetl all Men totheUfurpers~ · 6•. They willlofe their due Charity to all tha,c , Confent not to this Subject'ion , taking them for Enemies·to the Churches Unity and Peace,and Reeels againfi this Soveraign Power. · ~~ No wonder iffuch become grievous Perfe– cutors, and ftir. up ·Princes and Rulers againfi fuch Chriltians as Schifmaticks and Ene.mies of Peace; And as Dr. Saywe!t ar d Bifhop Guning tell the Worlq, that the meeting of fuch in virorihippirig God are the Conventicles of Schih'11aticks,and the Caufe of ali our Plors and Divifions. And if Obe– dience to -th'u V niverf tl So~erP-ignty be (as they fay) the only Cure of Schifm., they muft hold 'all our Pari{h Affemblies too robe Schifmatical Conven– ticles, whofe l!aftors own not the L1furparion. 8. Thos as the Pope hath been the grand Di– viqer of the Chriitian World,by feuing up a f:.1l(e Head l
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