-% 316 Paflors to flifPetri tbemfelvts. tifurp authority which Chrift never gave you, and lord it over Godsheritage, and by your own in- ventions lay fnares before the people to divide Om, and will not fufl"er them to unite in their proper center, and agree in the primitive fig- Pl ;city. And that bring the Miniftery into ha- tred and contempt by your cruelty and vicious lives.] Andwhileft each fide is thus accufed by the other, they have all the greater caufe to fuf- pea themfelnes : Becanfe it feerneth'to be a- greed on all hands, that it is the Paftors who are principally in the fault, though it be not agreed what the fault is, nor which party of the Paftors' mull bear the blame. And indeed where are there any feces or fa- ¿ions, but there are MiniF ers that head them, and that c tired them at lirft,. and keep them up? s it not the Bithops that have caufed the long di- vifio:ì, between the Greek and Latin Chur- ches? Was it not principally a contention for their intereft; , which of -them thould be the greateft (fo' little doth Cirifts on decifion of that controverfie among his Apoftles, fignifiie with thofe men,` who arecontending about a fuc- eeve infallible judge.) Is it not their Coun- cils and their contentious writings and pra&ifes, which have beenthe grand ceufes of this woful fchifrn ? And are nit the dividing fnares, which caufe aloft of the reft of the fchifms of Chriften- dome, the Neer afurpations, and rmpo(itions of the Roman Prelates ? It was the Bifhops of each parry, with their Presbyters, who headed the divi;ïoi in the C :cond Council of E?he¡u! , and in the Council of 4rimd'Ln, and many others: And by
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