( 4.5o ) fal : The pretended, Vice.Chrifi, is a falfe Chrift. The firfl ufurpers pretendedbut to a Soveraignty in the Roman wörld but had never any Phew of Government over the Churches in Ethiopia, India, and the many Churches that were without the verge ofthe Roman Empire. 4.7. And as for General Councils, t . They are no more the Vilble Head and Soveraign of the Church then the Pope is. This I have proved in another Difputation by it Pelf. 2. There neither is nor can be any Council truly univerfal, as I have therealto thew d. Its but a delufory name: 3. There never was any fu 1 'in the world, fence the Church ( which before was confined to a narrow room)was fpread over the world.Even atlkice,there was noproper reprefentative ofalmoft any but the Churches under the Roman Emperours power : Few out of the Well, even in the Empire: and none out of almoft any of the Churcheswithout the Empire: (Far whats one BithopofRerfa, or fuch another of another Countrey, and perhaps thole prove the Roman fubjeâs too, that arc fo called? ) If there was but one from Spain, and only two Presbyters of Rome from Italy, and onefrom France (if any ) andnone frommany another Countrey in the Empire,no wonder ifthere was none from Eng- land, Scotland, or Ireland, &c. And therefore therecan be no univerfal obligationon this account. 4. 8. Councils are for Concord byConfultation and con - fent, and not a Soveraign or fuperiour fort of Governing pow- er. And therefore we that contented not arenotobliged : and if wehad confented,we might on weighty reafons have withdrawn our content. 4.9. The Orders eftablifhed byGeneral Councils have been laid afide by almofl all,andthat without the repeal ofa Council : Yea fuch Orders are teemed to prefuppofe the cuftom of the Univerfal Church, if not Apoftolical Tradition , to have been their ground. 4. io. Among many others, let us ¡nflance only in the laft Canonof theNicene Coun il, that forbidding Kneeling, corn mandeth all to pray only flanding on the Lords Dayes And this was the common ufe of the Church before, as rental-, liar, andothersPhew, and was afterwardsconfirmed again in a Ceneral Council : And yet even the Churchof Rome bath caft it
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