( 133 ) Wemay find them in our Churches andgarb when their intereff requires it. But again I muff for all thefe points refer the Reader to my forementioned Book (AKeyfor Ca- tholicks.) The hiffory of the Papacie being thus briefly givens you, I fhould next briefly tell you, I. What a Pope is ; II. What a Papiff is ; III. What the prefent Papal. Church is : But it requireth more than this fhort Writ- ing, . to open any one of thefe to the full : But take this, breviate. C H: A. P. VI what the Pope ms. I. E are not to defcribe the Bifhop ofRome as'he y- qj was at the beginning, but as in that Stature . towhich he is fince grown up. And fo unmeafurable.a Potentate muff be defcribed to you but byparts, and ina. dequate conceptions ; And I will no more undertake to enumerate all, than to Name all the. Kingdoms known and unknown to us Europeans which he claimeth the Government of. But I remember who it was that (hew- edChrift all theKingdoms of the world, and faid, 411 thefe thingswill Igive thee ifthou wiltfall downandwor- fhip me, Math. 4.9. Or as Lark. 4.. 6. 411 this Power, will igive thee andthe Glory of them, for that is deliver- ed to me, and towhomfoever Iwill igive it. L The Pope of Rome is an Vfurper, whofrom the law ful Epifcopacy of one particular church afpired to be Q Bifhop over many Churches and Bi(hops, and a Metropoli- tan, and thence to be aPatriarch, and the frg Patriarhi e iat
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