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Erafmm, Cpre./Jander, Ar. Baldwin, W,icelim,&c.
And
in
France
the great Chancellor
Michael Hofpitalias,
Thstmu;,and
many of their moll: excellent Lawyers
and Parliament·men, and fome Bitbops and
Di-
vines.
'
Thefe men being ·offended at the
Separating
part of the Reformation, were taken with the no–
r
ion of Unity ail(! Government, but underfiood
not the true Hate 6fthe Controverfie, and·were of
two minds among themfelves.
I.
Some had long
had an untryed notion by Tradition, that the
Church throughout the World was One Body Po–
lirick under one Humane Government.
2.
Others
-never thought of that, but having feen a fubmif–
fion of all the vVefiern Churches to the Pope,
thought a Separation unlawful.
§
X.
But
the cafe of the
Separation,
which they
underfiopd not who blamed it, was this·
The
Reformers took the Univerfal Church
in
all
the Earth to have .no Head, King, or Soveraign
Governour but Chrill, none elfe having the leall:
1hew of true capacity or right; and therefore
that none had an Univerfal Legiflative, Judicial
or Executive Power: And a Church-Soveraignty
·was
a
more irrational conceit than a
~Civil
Sove–
raignty over all
the
Earth: And an Arifiocracy of
Bithops more irrational
tha~
a Papal Monarchy.
Therefore they profeifed not
to
feparate from
Pa–
pifts as Chriftians, or from any of their Societies
as parts ofChrifi's Church; but to renounce, de–
ny, and feparace from their new
Vfurped Church–
Species or Form,
as
it
is
feigned to be
an
Vniver(al
1-iumane Soveraign
\'\'ith
hu
Subjeils.
Had they ne–
ver
cvrrupted other Doc1rine or Worthip
this
Church~Species
of Univerfal
Sovcraignty,
is
to
be
f~par~e.d
from.
,
2.
And