C 449 ) the Government yea in the highefl point even Legiflttion, over the Univerfal Church it felf. §. 3. And a. I add, that the Difhent of thofe Churches that refute your Ceremonies, dorh prove that there is no Univerfal content : If all mull content, we muff confent our (elves before we be obliged. We are as free as others, we gave none power to oblige us by their confent. If we had, it had beenNull : be. caule we had no authority fo to do, and could not haveobliged our felves, by auniverfal Law , or perpetual contra&. Or if we had, we had alto power, on ¡tart occafion to reverfe a felf- obligation. But no fuch thing de facto canbe p:etended againa us. §. 4. And if fuch an obligation by confent thould be pretend- ed , 3. I would knowwhether it was by this orby forceformer generation 2 Not by this as is certain. Nor by any former : For former ages had no power to bind ail their fucceffors inCere- moniesabout the woríh'p of God. Shew whence they had fuch apower, and prove it, if you can : we are born as free men, as our anceltors were in this. §. 5. And 4.1 wouldbefatisfied, whether every mans con- fent in the world be neceffary to the Vniverfality, or not ? If it be ; then there are no Diffenters : or no obligation becaufe no Univerfal confent. If nor ; then howmany mull confent before we are obliged ? you have nothing to fay, but [aMa- jor part ] where you can, with any thewof reafon, reif : And s. How (hall we know in every Parith in England, what mind the Major part of the Chriflians through the world are of, in point of fuch or fuch a Ceremony ? z. Yea by this rule, we have reafon to think that both Papilla and Proteflants mua change their Ceremonies, becaufe the greater part of Chri- ftians (in Eaft and South,and forne in the Weft) are againfi vet ry many of them: §. 6. But if it be the Authority of a Soveraign Head that is pleaded asobliging the univerfal Church to an uniformity in Rites and Ceremonies, we mull know who that Soveraign is. None that we know, pretend to it `but the Pope and a General Council. And for the Pope we have by many volumes proved him an. Uiarper,and no authorizedHead of the Church Univer- Mmm, fal :
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