their Councils abridged. 3 6 I on and Peace? Who were the Schifmaticks then? was it not the makers and impofers of fuch laws and terms ? 3. Is it not a high power that is claim- med by Popes, when no Prieft in all the Chriftian world may have fo much as his Beard in his own power, in which nature bath given him a propriety ? How much more might the Pope then command all mens parfes ? 4. May way we not fee here on what weighty reafons, thefe men condemn God's word of infufficiency, and plead for traditions, and a neceffity Of their additional Laws ? When Scripture bath left out the shaving ofmens Beards, and we had never had filch a Law, iffuch power as the Papal had not made it ? O what difcord and diforder would there be in the Church if we had not fo neceflary a government t and what con- fufion would toleration introduce, ifmens_Beards were left at liberty ! But if Paul called the heathen Phylofophy Vain and [Science fa/y fo named.] i Tim. 6.2o. as befooling the world with pedantick triftïng,and calling them off from their great concernes, may we not fay then that . this is vain Government and Order faiflyfo named, which thus calleth the Church from its primitive purity, fimplicitp and unity, when Chriftians were known by loving one another to thefe childith games, that the Prelates and Priefts of the CatholickChurch. mutt be known by theirbe- ingwithout Beards? One would fulpe t this had its orignal from Pope ?vane, if there were indeed fuch- a perfon ; and that it is a Symbol ofthe Churches fex, as it is called Oar Mother; or at leaft, that Marozia or Theodor intlituted it. 5. And do you know which were the more inex- cufable, for filencing andperfecuting the preachersQfthe Grape!? The pews that did it becaufe theyithought it took down Gods Law,and would bring the Roman Power on them; Or the Roman heathens that thought theGofpel deftroyed the worfhip oftheir forefathersGods;or the Roman Papifts, that filenced and perlecuted men for wearing Beards?' Thef2.56. 4 56. Epft. i s. When Tome French Preachers had revived Religion in Sweden; the Pope, defirous to reap where they had (owed, fends to the King of Sweden, to tell "'him his joy; and that what the French taught them they recieved from Rome, and to delire him to fend one of his Bithops toRome, to acquaint himwith their cuftoms, and to receive his Lawsand Mandates. You feeby what means Rome was railed. Epift. 15. ABifhop gave up his 'Bifhoprick : The Popé chides him and commands him to a Monaftery;Rather than do fo,he returneth to his feat again: The Pope chargeth himwith the Idololaerie fcelus the Crime of Idolatry, for not obeying him; and writes to them not to recieve him or be ruled by him, asever they loved theGrace ofGod and Sr. Peter. The like he doth, Epii. 16. by the difobedient Bifhop of Karbon, and Epift. 17. by the difobedient Arch Bifhop of Rhemes, and Ept. i8. 19, zo. of the fame ; and all this in Sr. Peter's name. Yea Epift. 20. he requireth theKing ofFrance (Philip) to joyn againft the Arcb- bifhop of Rhemes as excommunicate, as ever he would have Sr. Peter's Grace, be- caufe his Kingdom and his Saul were in Sr. Peter's porter, And it is no A a a wonder
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