326 burch- Tf"ory of DiIhops Vic? Had it not been a Nullity, and prophane Mockery? 7, What elfe fignify all the Capons, that nullify Ordinations for refs Fault's ? But the Image of a Bithop, will make but the Image or Carkafs of a Church. §. 5a. Eut, fay they, Cum.7Zniverfa Ecclafia Cátholi.a fciret minus malum rffe capat quantum itbei monfirojum proferre quam Mum corpus in duo fecari, ducbus capitibus informará, cundem toto orbe terrarum tan- quam 2erttm G legit:mum Pontificem veneraro fait. Á.áíw, t. What a fhamelefs Dream do you impofe on us, under the Name of, Touts or+ bis Terra,um? What had the Ethiopians, the Arhenáans, yea, or the Grit k.-Chunch, to do with Pope John ? Or, What was it to them, how he was called, or -what he was? Did not the `Patráar(t of Conflan- tinople then writehimfelf, the Vniverfal Patriark? (even Tryphon, that they faid, could not write any thing elfe.) Where is your Proof of this Univerfal Conceffion ? Which way did the whole Catholick- Church (or the Tenth or Hundredth Part of it) fignify their Content? 2. Who -: taught you to feign the State -and Neceffity éf fuch a Church, as mutt haveanother Univerfal Head betides ChrïJt ? You know, that it is the Being of fuch a Church or Head, (be he never fix Good) thatwe de- ny : And you have never proved, nor can prove it. He only is the Univerfal Head, who máketh Univerfal-: Laws, and undertaketh verfal Teaching, and is anUniverfal;Judge and Proteftor; none of which any Mortal '. man can perform. The- very Fi(tion of fuch a Head and Body, is Monftrous, andyour Capital Error. 3. How fmall a part of the ChriflianWorld was fubjeft to the Pope, at that time; though within his reach, he was aimed at the Heighth of his Prefumption? 4. He that wanteth what is Effential to :a true Bithop, is no true Bithop : But Pope John the Twelfth wanted what was Effential to a true Bi- atop: Ergo. He was none. The Minor is proved: He that want- eth the neceiTary Difpofirion of the Receptive Matter,' and is not Subje- Etuos Capa.., wanteth that which is Effential to a true a Bithop: (For the Materia Difpofira is an Effential Conflitutive Caufe; a Subjelbo Capax is Effential to a Relation.) Eut John the Twelfth wanted-the 'Neccf rry 'Difpofirion of the Matter ad Forman Reeipiendam, or was not StabjE,ium Capar: Proved. He that wanted capable Age, and all o- iher Things necrifary to a lawful Pope, -was not Subjec`tum`Capaz; but wan-ed the nec:eff.,ry Difpofition Receptive. But all'.thefe,,you fay .your felves, Pope John wanted : Ergo, &c. 5 If then She Univerfal Church had fo erred, as to take him` for a Eilhop that was none ; that Error"would nòt make him a Bifhop, no mere than it would make a dead Man alive, -òrtn illiterate Man lean red. But this is the Romao.Catholickk,kind of Proof: '',You fay your 'felves, That a Whore, and a wicked Son of that' Whore, got Power enough to overtop the Citizens of Rome, and the Clergy, (yet too ,ike: them) and : to . thruft :a wicked uncapable Fellow into the Chair. -.When
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