Baxter - BX1763 B28

(175 ) far denying his Right amounts to : And confequently 4 a notorious Schifmatickor Sectary) appropriating the Church title only to his Sept. This is proved before from the Mailers of their Re- ligion. IV. This Papifi is one that bolded), that thofe Councils which were General ,is to one Empire, were General as to all the Chrifian world : And that fuch General Councils there mu(t be, (if it pleafe the Pope to call them,), though they muff come from all the Quarters of the Earth, and whence theyhave no Seapoke, and out of the Empires of many Princes, and many that are Enemies to the Chriflian Name, and perhaps at Wars with Chriflians ; and when the Voyage or Tourney as fuch, that if the Churches be de- prived of a thoufand Bifbops, twenty of them are never like to live to return home to the remoteft Nations. Nor could they converfe as a Council, by reafon of the number anddiverfity of Languages, ifthey were equally nathered. Or they hold, that if a finall part of the Chriftian world a[femble ((is at Trent) when the reii cannot come, this is an Vniverfal Council of and to all the Chrifian world. V. This Papif is one that holdeth, If a fallible Pope and a fallible General Council do but agree, their Decrees are i.'fallible : As ifan unlearned Pope (e. g. that underflands not the 'Text of Scripture in the Original) and an unlearn- ed Council (as to the Hoofs) %haul agree their Decrees would be learned ; e. g. injudging which is the true Yran- flatïon of a Tongue which they never underftood. As if ten purblind men if they meet together might produce the Effects of the cleareff fight, or Fools by conjunction become wife. VI. He holdeth, that Tradition from Fathers to

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