habeantur pro talibus abEcclefìa.,] From ail this you may note I:, 1hat theyare veri Epifcopi & Pafiores noflri, thátwere never ordained,if they are but reputed (uch by the ,Church, 2. That we may know this by infallible Certainty, 3. And that we owe them , obedience as fuch.' So that asto the ,Church they are true Paftors without Ordination,and confequentlyto the Church a fucceflìon is undeceffary.- Sect. 22. Yet of fuchUfurpers he faith ( Eos qui,em non_e1fe iss fe veros Epifropos, tarnendonee pro talibus habentur ab Ec elefia., deberi illis obedientiatn , cunt cenfcientia etiarn erronea, oblige_t. ] So.that they are not veri Epifcopi infe and yet they are veri Epifcopi Pafiorei nojiri, tf Bellarmine fay_ true ;. And thewords have tome truth in them, underPwod according. to the diffinction which I before gave, Cho:p 5,6. He hach no fuch Callas will fave himfelf from the penalty of ufur- pation (if he knowingly be an ufurper) but he bath rue) a Calf as 'hall obligz ,the Church to. obey him as- their Bifbop or Pallor,.. Sect,23 Bnt his reafon(Camconfcièntia etiarn erronea obliged is a deceit ; and neither the only, nor thechief reafon, nor any reafon. Not the only .nor chiefreafon; becaufe the obligation arifeth from Grid, and that is the greatefl. Not any reafon ; r Becaufe indeed itis not an Erroneous-Confcience, that tellsma-- tiypeople that their ufurpingBifhops or Paflors are to beobey- ed as true Miniflers ; For as it is terminated on the Paftors act or 'late, it is no act ofConfcience at all and therefore no er, ror of confcience. For confcience is the.knowledge,ofour own, affairs. And as it is terminated onour own Duty of obeying them, it is nor Brroneons; but right ; For it is thewill of God, that for order fake we .obey both Magíftrates and Pallors that are fetid inPoíf.fì-ïon, ifthey ruleus according to the-Laws of` Chrift ; at leaf}, if we do-not knoAi the Nullity of their calL. 2.And its falfe that anErroneous Confcience biriaetb;thát is, makes us linty ; For at the fame inftant it is it felfa fin and we are bound. tct depofe it,, and change it and renounce heerror: It doth but intangle a man in a Neceifity of fìn.ning.till . ít be laid by. But it is Godonly thatcanmakeour duty, and caufe fuck "= an obligation:. Setii24,,From the aduerfaries Concefions, then an uninter- rcuptcd.
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