62 ) XL. And when all this Power over the whole Earth is thus claimed, there is no poffible means left fir any mortal man, much lefs for the Antipodes, to know who is the man that bath this Power, andwhom on pain ofdamnation we mull obey, and believe in before we can believe in Chrifl. Proved : If there be anypofïibility of knowing it, it muff be either, i . By perfonal qualifications of mind ; 2. Or by right of elution ; 3. Or of Ordination ; 4. Or of Pofiefìion ; 5. Or of Acceptance by the Church after Poffetlion. I cannot Imagineany other way. But there is no poflibilityof knowingwho is Pope by any ofthefe wayes. I. The firft is not pretended by them : But anonwe thall thence prove their Nullity for want of neceffary Qualifications. IL If Elec7ion will tell us, then it is either any Eleé i- on whatfoever, or elfe Election by authorized Perfons. Not the firft ; elfe the Turks, or the Greeks, or the Adverfa- ries of Rome might eleá a Pope : And an hundredmight be elected at once feveral ways. Not the later ; For if any one way of Elellion be neceffary, Popes were noPopes when that way failed : Sometime they were elected by the People of Rome (and were they the Chufers for all the world?) Sometimes by the People and the Presbyters :. Sometimes by the Nei hbour Bijhops and Ordainers : Some- times by the Emperours : And laftly by the Cardinals. If one way only be valid, the reft were invalid : And how (hall we prove which ? If anyof thefeways are va- lid ; then fix men or five may be chofen at once by the feveral ways : And where is the proof? III. Ifordination be thenotifying Title, then, i.Thofe Laymen that were put in full pof ellion unordained were no
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