Popifh Unity howvain. 27f, ofJwiting themwith the fword. What a wondev and what a lamentation is it , that thole men that cry out fo much for forbearance to theMagifirate fhould themfelves be as rigid and more by hurch-. feverities and lefs forbear dií%ntets, e; ven in a formor ceremony , as to communion, and yet never fee the fame fin in themfelves, which they fo much complain of And here myprincipal bufinefs is to warnyou of the Papal way of Vnity : They are fo great enemies todivifions and fe6s, that theymull have all the Chrifiian world , united not only in one Chr ft,byone pcofetlion &baptifm,but alfo inone mortal Monarch as his Vicar, that men may know at the Antipodes` when they underftand not the Scripture, or differ inopinions, who to flep to for the endingof their controverfies, and to give them an infallible commentary on the Bible, and to tell them with whom theymull hold commu- nion. And all their differences may thus have a fpeedy difpatch If it be doubted whether one in Ab4JJâa or much further off, bea Heretick, or an impenitent fanner and to be excommunicated or not; and the Church where he liveth is divi- ded about it , if the matter be but referred to the Pope, as the fupream Judg, it is but going to Ronne, and fending thither all theparties and wit- neffes on both fides, and the Pope can decide it much more judiciouíly than thofe that are on the place and know the perfons and all thecircum. fiances. And all this may be done in threeyears time or lefs, ifwind and weather and all things ferve And ifall the perfons die by the way, the controverle is ended a If ome part only die, let a' the
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