• [ )05 ] I \ Princes, o hazard their lives in travel many years; , .to forfake their Flocks fo long , and by differing J:.~guag~s not 4ble to underfiaf!d each other ; nor like to hve loqg enough to brmg home the De- ..crees, when perhaps they mufi fit fo many ·years in Council -as they did at Trent (wearing out the lives of many Popes) (Apd what is the neceffity of all this?) , ' i ~3l· ' If thofe few that are fent do that which the reil: Qt home diffent from , is it valid? e. g. King 1a!l1e$ chofe Six to go to the Synod at Dort, and moll then confemed, and mofi now diifent; 1 The Parliament chafe a Synod of one Mind, and .the King by his Clergy one of another.) And how fhall we know that the Churches own the Atts rf :their Delegate~, and diffe'nt not tas the · Greeks did after the Council of Florence .e Can all Men ~md Women reft on things no becter known to rhem? . · · · · · · · .Q:.3 2~ Seeing that it is notorious t~at r.he Bi1l1ops ofalrnoH all the Chrifiian World, except .part of Europe, are very uniearned ignorant Mt>n, '(Armenians, G,eorgiaiu, Iberian), Mengrelians, moll: .of the .Greeks,Mofcotires,and the f)Umerous Eafiems ,called. Ne{loriar;s, and 'Jacobite-s, and Copties, &c. and abundance of thr: Papifis alfo in Europe) How ,ihall we be fure that fo many Ignorant M~n (and too vicious) will do the work of Wife or Infalli- · · ple Jqdges.of the Chrifiiao World, ifthey do but meet together in Council ? (much lefs as fcatcered and -.:alledaCollege.) ·· Mufi·not this be by an un– deniable Miracle ? And bath God pro'mifed to Gpv.ern·his Church by conihnt Miracles ·; yea, as many Miracles as there ~be ignorant and wicked Bi!11ops, apd that through ,all Ge,neratio~~ ? ' · • ' . .. ... ... · . / . . ' ·- . ..• ~ 33·
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