440 Church Hiçòt'y of ßi/bops, 8..Priefts of wicked' lives polute thePrieftlypower. 9. The Papal dignity arofe from the Emperour, and the Popesprefellure and in- A f iteetion flowed fromCxfars power. Divers of . Popes and Prie/ts that live wickedly are not the Apoftles Soeccef- fers Delivering men to Secular powers (because excommunicate) is to imitate the Scribes and Phorifees aboveChrift. Ecclefaltical obedience it obedience after the Pries invention without any exprefs authority of Scripture. All humane' Ails are diftinguifhed into virtuous and vicious. A Friel!. of Chrift living after his Law andunderftanding the Scripture, andde- ports to Edifte thepeople, ought not to obey thePope or anyPrelate that forbids him to preach,, and excommunicateth him. Every one made a Prieft bath a command to preach andmuf% obey it, notwith- ftanding excommunication. By Church C{enfures of excommunication, fiefenfion and interdiS, the Clergy .keeps the Laity -ender their feet for their own exaltation, and multiply avarice, proteS malice, and prepare the may to Antichri(t ; It is an evident fign that flitch Cenfure, proceed from Antichrift, in which the Clergy principally proceed dgainft thole that open the nakednefi of Antichrifts wickednef which the Clergy will for themfelves 'uperp. If the Popes he wickedmenand reprobates, thenas Judas anApofle wasa thief and traitor and fon of perdition, fo theyare no heads of the Church, when they are :ato members. The grace ofpredeftination io the bond of the. Churches union with the head. A wicked and reprobate Pope and Prelate is equivocally a Pallor, and trulya thief and robber. The Pope fhouldnot be called molthölyr Right elehion makes not him that comethnot in by Chrifi to have right. Wickliffs 40Articles were unjufly condemned. There is no fpark of appearance that there mull be one head in fpirituals to rule thewbel e Church, that muff alwayes converfe with it , . and be con- fervor!. Chrj Ruled his Churchbetter throughout the world by his true Difeiplesdifperf- ed, than' it is byfuchma)oJiro& heads. The Apof-lesand faithful Prieftsof the Lord, did/trenuouflyregulatetheChurch in things neceffary to falvation, before the Office of aPope was introduced, and fo would do, were there no pope, to theendof the world. There is no Civil Lórd, no Prelate, no Bop, while in mortalfin. (Of which oft before.) ThefeArticles arementioned whichthey fay were proved again(' him. . It is to be rioted that Hufs called God to witnefs that he never preached nor owned many of thefe Articles which falle witneffes brought in againit him, and yet renòunceth nothing that he held. And whether he or his accufers, better knewhis mind and faith its eafieto conje- é.ure.. They
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