their Councils abridged. 349' boaft of Antiquity? a. Either the Bifhop ofRome into be chofen as the Bifhop of that particular Church, and then the membersof that par- ticitlar Church fhoald choofe him, or elfe as the Bifhop of the univerfal Church (pretendedly) and then the úpiverfal Church fhould choofe him. But the Cardinal Bithops of other particularChurches are neither the particular Roman Church, nor the univerfal, nor their delegates : and fo have no Tuft pretence ofpower. 3. Either this- decree was new, or old and in force before: If new their Church foundation is new and mutable, as is raid If old, all the Popes that were otherwife chofen were no Popes. 4. And if it be but neceffary for the future, all that after were other - wife chofen were-no Popes. S. If feveral wayes and parties or powersmaking Popes may all make them true Popes, then who knoweth which and how many-of thofe there are and which is the true Pope if ten were made at once ten feve- ral wayes? 6. This. confefleth that Chrift hath appointed no way for chóofing Popes, nor given any fort of men power to choofe them: elfe what needPope Nicholas begin it now anew? And if fo, it feemeth that Chrift -never inftituted the Papacy: For can we fuppofe him fo Laxe a Legifia tor, as to fay, a Pope (hall be made, and never tell us who fhall have power to do it. Then England may choofe one, and France another, and Spain another,cfic.the Bifhòps one,tbe Priefts another, thePrince another, . and the Citizens another.But ifChrift have retied a Pope makingpower in any,it iseither the fameas Pope Nicholas did,in Cardinal Bifhops, or nora. If not, the Pope changeth Chrift's inftítution: Ifyea, then all thole were no Popes that wereotherwife chofen, and fo where is the Roman. Church and its fuccefl'ion. 7. What power bath Pope Nicholas to bind his fucceflors? Have not- they as much power as he? and -fo to undo it all again? If the King . fhould decree that his Kingdom hereafter (hall not be hereditary but e- le Live, and that the Bithops thould be the choofers of the King, were this obligatory againft the right ofhis heirs? -8. By this decree, if the Laity and Clerks- content not after, he is, ftill no Pope._ 23. In this fame Council (faith Bin. ibid.) it was decreed E" that no one hear the 'Nlafs of a Presbyter, whom he knoweth undoubtedly to have a Concubine, or Subintroduccd Woman.] ,tear. Whether they that make 1', him.a Schifmatick that goeth from a fcandalous, wicked, malignant, or utterly infufficienc Prieft, and dare- not commit the care of his foul to fuch a one, be not loòfer than Pope Nicholas and this Roman Council' was? § 24. A Council at Malphia and another at Paris for Crowning King Philip, and one at ?acca in Spain, of (mall moment. § .zs.. tin. Io6L Was the -2.zd. Schifm: or two Popes of Rome, for . five..-
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