. [ 507 ] ledge is not neceffary to the Laity~ ·but they mufl: be}ieve herein .the Priefis or Bi{hop that is ovet them. I. ,How is this·then a belief of Councils? 2. What . nJaH the poor People do , that one of fnanv -h:1u1dred of them never fee their Bifbop, much lefs ever fpake.with him.- 3· And 'are tlieir Priefis .infallible herein ·or not ? · · , ··· ~ 39. Doth not·this .by the deceitful noife of the Cii!tholick Church ana Councils, and a Col– lege ofB~iJ19ps, ma}{e eyery ParilJ1 Priefi's ·vvord the very Foundation 'into· which all mens Faith mufi -'be refolved? 'Andhe that faith [I ·believe the Scripture, becaufe the Church and Councils propofe 1 it or attelt it , · and I ' believe that tbe · Church and Council fay it, becaufe the Priefi faith it] Doth he not fay as mnch as [I believe the Scripture;Church and Councils uppn the bare word of the Priefi ?] · • ·· .Q~_4o. Is it not hardfor the People that know their Pt:iefrs to be fotti fh,., ignorant, ·prophane_, drunken , malicious men , to lay all their Salva..t rion on a fuppofed certainty that thefe PrieHs fay true ? · · . · · Q..4r. lf the Pari{hioners know alfo tbat their Prie.fts never read the Councils , and · confe(s · that he is jgnorantof them, and know him alfo eo be a common lyar, Can they certainly believ~ the Scripture and the Councils, and the Niauers of Faith, and duty contained in both , upon the'· word of fuch a Priefi? . ~-42. Can they that are unlearned and ·neve~ fee a t)ifhop,tell whether the Parifh Pridl and the Biihop fay the fame ? Or whether tbe,ir Bifhop be of the fame ~v1ind with the other Bifhops? and ·whether the Bi[hops e. g. of f/1p)rmd be of the • fame I · ' 'I
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