~ '470 ] 'I ,ap,retended Uni.verfal Counc1 may fiand with, Loyalty to Cbnft, becaufe fuch a Council is ·a ' · ·chimera, or Non Ens, and never will be in th~ 'World, and fo .can do no h~rm," ( as one may · be ~rue to the King, who yet 'Sweareth Obedience to an Affembly of Morpl Angels, ) ·yet the caf~ is orherwife. ··For, · r. Th~fe Men that profe(s Subjection to Co"uncils, caimot be fuppofed ro iake fdch Copncils for Chimera's or rhings· impoffi~ ble, \vithout being take'rt for mad Men. ·There– fore it 'is:nor a true General· Council, but fome- , thing poffible that th~y mean : And they ufe to (ay themfelres; -[or as General M can bewefl had. J So thatfuch a one as that at Trent, or as they will ~all ' General ·( ·as they do the old ·Imperial Com1.:. dls) will ferv~ their turn. ·. · ~ t ' · 2. And ··]e( the,m difclaim Popery never fo · loudly, they mean Hill that the .Pope muft be tht: ordinary Caller q:ndPreitdent of the[e ·Councils, and· the Chi~f Patriarch and Prim:ipium V nitatis J,Jniverfalis! And fo all will come but to aliinited Pope·infiead of an Abiolute One ? And i~ be not aMonarch tboqgh he muff Rule ' by La\V ? F.ot , they intendnot that there be no Catbolick Church all the time that thel'eare no 'Councils ; and there~ . fore they 'intend fome Unifying, Cqnftitmive, Executive Supreme. , ' : · · ·. ; ·XI. Obj. But:if we may not own a Bij!1op t!Mt fubjdlcth himjelf r"o the l c:pe or ·other Foreign Vfurper . ;o f Vni~•erfcd Government; then '~f the King be a Pa~ 'pijl ii wi(lfollow t/Jat rni muff ' not be (ttl?jt:Cf to him; ~Vhich d/t:P:,.otejfam/confefs io b~ fai(i :: Ergo, fo is. the 'Yime'ccdent a, ofBijhop1. · · · · · · · ' ' ·.Aljf. 1d~ny· the ():mfequence, [peaking only iif {Itch a Kiri~s Re.'igion. Nero was a Heathen, "'· ,. ·· :.. .. .;;; : ,.· .., · ~ ' · ·' ·• · · ·· and . . ··. • ~-' ......
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