[ 50 J " elfe I pray you can they feem to be but certain ''Private Councils -of Biiliops, and. Provincial " Synods? For admit peradventure Italy, France, ·'.' Spain, En:t,land, Germany, Denmark.,, · Scotland, " met together ; If there want A fia, Greece, .Ar– ·'' mcnia, Perfia, Media, Mefopotamia,Egypt, Ethio· ''pia, India , Mauritania , )in all which Places " there be both many Chrifiians , and many Bi– " fhops, how can any Man, being in his right ''Mind, think fuch a Council to be a General -~(; -Council ?] · Pag. 629. "It's proved that Councils have been · " fo facrious and tyrannical, that good Men have " jufrly refufed to come at them. Pag. 593. "But the Gofpel hath been carried ''on without and againfi Councils; and Councils " been againfi the Truth. · · And ']ewel, Pag. 486. fheweth that[" Councils ,"have been againfi Councils, and the Arrian He– '' reticks had more Councils than the Chrifiians.] and ilieweth their uncertainty. · P~g. 19. As to the Authority ofCouncils, Au– ~uffipe faith, [" lpfa plenaria Concilia ftepe Priora a 'pojferioribm emandantur. · ,- And of the Succeffion and Ordination of Bi– fhops, he faith, Pag. 1 31. ['' If there were not "one of them (that turned from ·Popery) or of '' us left alive, yet would not therefore the whole " Church of England fly to Lovaine. Tertunian ''faith, Nonne & Laidfacerdotes fumm.-Ubi Ec– '' clefiaftici Ordinis non eff Confejfm, & ojfert & "tingit facerdos qui eff {olm. Sed & ubi tres funt, "Eccle{ia eff, licet Laici. And frequently he faith, (( The Church is found among few , as well as "amongmany.] And he was for Lay Mens Bap– tizing. - · X. The
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