Be not deceived hp thename ofUnity. 277 Remember that one of the old feelsor facts- ®ns of carnal Chriilians, criedupCephu, that is, Peter,andfaid we are ofCeph u;whBch I kno v not how they could be blamed for,ifhe was theChur. ches Conflitutiveor Governing Head. .i Cor. ;a.12. and 3.2 2. And remember that the Church is not the body of any eflpoflle, but of Chrift, and that all the Apoftles are but the nobler fort of mem- bers, and none of them the Head. I Cor. 12.27, 28. Nov ye are the body of Chrifb andmembers in particular : and God bathfetforce in the Church, firfl, Apoftles, fecondarily Prophets, thirdly Teachers,& c. But Bellarmine (aware of this) hath devifed this fhift, that the Pope fucceedech Peter, in more than his Apoftle-Ihip, even his Headíhip : But whenhe bath proved Peter more than an Apoflle, and the Pope his fucceffor, he will do the bufi- nefs : TiIl thenwe muff fay , that if the Pope werebut a good Prieft or Bithop, below an A- poftle, we fhould give himmote honour, than ,his treafonable ufurpation of Chrifts prerogatives is like to procurehim. For he that will needs have all, shall havenone, and he that exalteth himfelf, (hall be brought lo ,v ; and he that will be more than a man shall be lefs than a man. DIRECT.
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