( Io) cil fend for any Bifhop or other perfon out of //dig, Scy. thia, Ethiopia, or anyother exterior Nation, to anfwer. anyAccufation ? or pals any Sentence of Depofition, or Sufpenfion againft them ? or put any other into their places ? 9. General Councils are confeffedby Papifts tobe but. a Humane andnot a Divine Inflitution : and what Hu- mane Power could fettle them in andover the Church Univerfal? Ifyou fay It is byUniverfal content ; prove to us that ever there was fucha content, or that ever therewas anymeeting or treaty for fuch Confent, ofall the ChriftianWorld, andwe will yield it to you. Surely if there be any Chriftians at the Antipodes they were not fent to in thofe days when Lactantiu-s, Augufiine, and others, denyed that there were any Antipodes, andderided it nor when the Pope by our Countryman Boniface his Inftigation excommunicated Virgilius for holding that there were Antipodes. Hear their great difputer Pighi- U6, Hierarch. Ecclef. lib. 6. c. i . fol. zio. [General Coun- cils (faithhe) have not a Divineor Supernatural Origi- nal, but meerly an Humane Original, and are the Inver: tionof Conftantinea Prince ; profitable indeedfometimes to find out in Controverfie whichis the Orthodox andCatho- lick Truth, though to this they are not neceffary, feeing it is a readier way to advife with the Apoftolick Seat.) So that General Councils are Novel, Humane, and only of the Empire then. io. But to end all the Controverfie, the namesof the Subfcribers are yet to be Peen, whowere not the repr- fentatives of the Chriftian World, but ofthe Empire, as is notorious. 'AnusSylvius Epift. 288. faith that [.before the coax- cil of Nice there was littleOrefpect bad to the Church of Rome.]
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