[ 496 J and fuch a judgment have we towards any other Nation: But a Ruling Publick Judgment none bath out of the Kingdom Civil or Ecclefiafiick. All Controverfies fhall be ended by Chrifl: at lafl: Its Madnefs· to think ofending all till then j fo that there is no Judgment buc Chrifl:'s, ~hat is,. Vniverfal and Final for the ending of Controver• fies or deciding any Caufe by Government. j And were there nothing but a double incapa..: city. r. NATURAL, and 2. POLITICAL or Accidental by the refirainr of the Princes of the Earth, I have oft f1Jewed here, that a Dream of an Univerfal Soveraign Council or Senate, yea or Pope, is utterly irrational. § 8. But if the Apofiolick .Succefiion prove not fuch .aSoveraignty, will not the Antienf:\ Ge– neral Councils do it ? No I have oft enough prov– ed that General Councils were but General in the Empire : While they kept fober and humble they never claimed more; Nor wa~5 there any on Earth that had power to call them out ofall the World!' And when they claimed more, they broke the Church, and by Ufurpation brought on Defolati- · on. There is neither Scripture, nor reafon, nor obliging example, for extending the Ecclefiallick jurifdicti?n b~yond the .Civil, but much ' of all thefe agamft It. · · § 9· And what man can think that a claim is the proof ofa title in'tho!e Councils which began to tranfgrefs the bounds of Civil jurifdietion ? The many Council's which have been for Arians, Eutychians, Ne.ftorians, A1onothelites, Adoration'-of Images,. Papal tyranny,&c. and the many that' havecontraditted and conden1ned them; reil us, that the Right of Councils mufi have a better· . p1~oo!?
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