[ )00. ] • Chap. X. Some ~ue{fions about General Cou'ncils, Ni be refolved before all the World can fubjeCl- Kings, .Kingdoms, , Souls andScripture to their Government or Decrees, .and take them for the Vnifying RulingPower 'OVer the.Vniverfal Church. ' NOthing can be more neceffiry to all Chr!o fiians, Learned and Unlearned, than to be · , fure of the truth of that which mufi be the foun– <iation ofall our obedience and our hopes: And> therefore if it be the General Councils Actual or ·Virtual (iri the chiefPatriarcns and Metropolitans~ or fuppofed· College of Biiliops) which is the Unifying or · ConHitutive Regent part 0f the Univerfal Church, and on·whofe credit we mu!t take the Scripture to be God's Word, and from ·- whofe Judgment we mufi noc appeal to Scripture pr to God ·j it's the primum necejfarium that w~ be ·fure of the Authority and Infallibility or Credit .of iilch Councils.. , ;· · And fir a, we are to confider the ma:tter of their , Determining Power. r. There are Things ; .::~2. Words j 3. The fignification of words to be \ ·judged of. · , z. There are Truths of Natural andof S1Jpcrna· turai Revelation to be judged of. , . 3. There are the Efientials ofChrifiianity, the ·, Integrals and the Accidents to be judged of. 4. And the Judgment is, r. Witneffing, 2. Teaching, 3. Or judidally Deciding. We muft firi1knowwbo are the .Tudges.z.What . . is their work. 3· Howcertain ;hey are. ·
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