' . .. [ 498 J ·But the pretence of an Univerfal Democracy, Arifiocracy, or Cburch-Par1iament ismore abfurd and worfe, as I have proved. · . § I I. Do our Changers ofGovernment ·think that it is a frnall matter, of which King and Peo– ple will take no notice, but be decoyed into by · degrees in, the dark, to ·make King, Lords, Bi- ' fi10ps and all the Kingdom ,the Subjects of a Fo-: reigner, an.d of a Parliament of Prelates who are · themfelves the Subjed~ of a M,ultitude of Fo,.. reign Princes, ( Mahometans, Heathens, Greeks, Papifis, &c.) As theChild faid [My Mother nt– leth my Father, and I rule my Mother, and rrzy Fath(r ru!eth the Ci~y: Therefore I rule the City,] So we ·may then fay the King ruleth England ; and a Council of Foreign Preiines rule the King ; and fieathen , Mahometan , Mofcovian, Armenian, Papi.fi, 0"c. Princes rule moft of the Biihops in Council : Ergo the[~ Princes rule che King. Do they know what it i"s for Pope or Prelates abroad to be made Judges"Ecclefiafiical of all per– fons and caufes here; and to have Power to Ex– communicate ·King, and Lords, and depofe Bi-. {hops, and filence Minifiers; and Hereticate Dif– fenters, and InterdiCt: the Kingdom? ere. Again . and again I fay, that l wonder if thofe men that have promoted fo many,Oaths, and Promifes ( in th~ Acts ofCorporations, Uniformity, Vefiries, Confinement, Conyenticles, Militia, ( never·toen- · deavour any alteration of Government in ·Church or Sta~e; can poffibly .blind \the Nation to . think it no''aiterationtfl SJ-tbjeil King., , Ch~-trch and King~om to a Foreign (pretended _Univerfal) Eccleilafhck Juri{diction ? Whether it be Perjury or Treafon is no debate for me j but l am fure that in ord~d
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