dal Head by, pivine;%nftitucaon .even as S. Peter's Succef tor, by derivation of the Power which Chrift gave Peter. And as about the Foundation, foabout theSutja`i` and the Meáfuse of Power, yea zv.' o is the true Chief Ruler over the LluniverlaÍ Church, there are thefe feveral forts of Popery. I. Some believe that it is General councils that are the Subjeó or Poffeffors of supreme church Power and infal- libility, and that the Pope is but the firft in order of the five Patriarchs in fuck Councils ; who hath no neceffary right to call them, nor no negative Voice in them, nor any Government over the other Patriarchs , or their Churches; but only thefirfl Seat, if he be there; jufl as the Patriarch of Alexandria firft, and of conflantino- ple after liad when the Patriarch of Rome was abfent. And thus indeed it was in the Empire, for a long time. But thofe five Patriarchs ruled not all the world; no more thanour twoProvincial Archbifhops do. Il. Others called Papifts do go farther, and believe that General Councils indeed have the fupreme Legifla- tive Power, and thechief Executive while they fit, and are the Seat of Infallibility: But becaufe they are not to be always or ordinary, God hath not left the four Patri- archs, and all the world, ungoverned in the Intervals but theRoman Pope is the supreme Governour of the world, when there is no General Council : Yet fo that he muft Govern by theirLaws or Canons. III. Another fort (and I think the molt numerous among the Learned) called Papifts, hold that Neither the Pope alone, nor the Council alone, are the Seat or Pof_ feuors of the fupreme 'Legiflative Power, or the Infalli- dility, nor of the fupreme judging and executive power federate
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