' [ 464 ] They\vill think, his guiltlyeth only on ~hiinfelf: ·. Elie one man may over· turn the Liberties of a, whole Diocefs or Land by h~s own 'proper fin.. II. Yeail the Oath or Promife be put on them for Obedience but in licitu & hone flu, they will think the cafe doth little differ ; as long as they ·confent not to aForreigR Jurifdittion. . - · § J· On the other fide, If ill_l men mull.ormay obey thern that profefs Obed1en~e to a Foreign Univ~rfal Jurifdittion, may not one pr two,, or a few BifhoFs fubjeet die Kingdom to Foreigners at their pleaiure? And that ·the more dangeroully; becaufe without any noife or notable alteration, and fo without reilfiance? It isbut the Primate or Archbifhops, or Bi{hops, profeffing fubjeet:ion to the Pope or Foreign Soveraign, and the thing ii done. The Bia10ps being fubjeet to the Pope, ·or .{)ther Ufurpers, and tpe PrieHs to the Bi!hops, and the People to the Priefls, are they not all then fubjett to the Foreign Ufurper? · Ifthe Kings Army in the days ofH. 5·.or Ed. f. in France, were to be hired over t.o the King of France, what need he more than that the Gene"· ral or' Field Officers Swear fidelity to him ? And chat the Captains be fubjett to the Colonels, and -- the common Soldier~ to them ? , , When the Kingdom was in continual War _between Kingstephen and Maud the Emprefs, and . ' between the Hou[e.s of Yor/z, and Lancaffer, the people vvere not ufually Sw9rn 00 either fide: But the Bif.hops and the Barons did Swear and Unfwear, and Forfwear, and Change fides as their Imeret1s led them, and this was the mifery of che Land. . · § 4· And yet the Cafe would be much ·eafier jr only
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