• [ 52 3 ) ' KingCha;rfes 2. that: they defired of himbut what: the Religious Orders had of the Pope. Tq fervf: God ac;cording to,their judgment, and hold tlleir Liberty from the King, andnot to be under the Billiops or Presbytery.f-Jore f1:1ch inHanc_es I l!lllli:gtu produce to !hew you by what fort bf ~en mud~ ofFopery came in, ·(but Pride and WorldlineiS did mofi.) § II. I humbly delire it may be thought on, whether fmne have not ignorantly given up the whole Cau[e to .a Foreign Jurifdic1:ion, by their Prophetical ExpoG,rion qf Chrifi's Epif!Jes to the feven Afian .Churches, Re71. 2· & 3· while tbey_ take them to ruean feven Ages and States of the Catholick Church, and two of them to mear] the · blefJed 1110ufand years State. For wherher by the Angel be meant, the Bif11op alone, or tbe Biilio?– wirh his Elders, or the Presbyt~rs as.aCollege, it is plain one Governing Power over each Church (whether Monarch'or ArifiocracyJ is ·there mel)– tioneq by the word Angel. And if the Univerial · Church have fuch in all Ages, and that by Chriffs . Infiitution, tl1ould we be again!! it? Even that: which ~he Thoufand years flJali have ? . § III. It is a very ordinary Dcttrine with us, that the Jewi{h Church W3S the Uriiverfal then in ' Infancy, or at leafi a Type ofit : And if fo, that , Ch~Jrch h'ad one fummq.Potejft¥,botb in MagiHracy: · \ and Minifirylacredly Civil and Eccle4afiical :And . Chri!l: plainly offered to gather them under him, and continue their Policy ( .tho' not their Laws,) ,and fet up twelve arid fevency o~ver tbem accord– ingly. · You·1f~y, Though one Aarpn was. their Head, yet Chriil is now th~ m1ly High Prielt, it followeth not ·that ~he Univerfa~ Cnur~h muft . p~v~ on~ Hun;-,~nerPr~~ft or l9n~. .• " 1 I . , '
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