( 66) I`acred Cardinal Bertrand ( in Biblioth. Patrum ) laid, that God had not been wife elfe, if he had not placed one Supreme, w/s his vicar over the world. And fo you can tell what God bath done., by your fuperlative Wit which can tell us what he ought to do. GodBoth all wifely But if he hadnot made an Univerfal Head of the World un- der him, he had not done wifely ; ergo, he hatli made fuchan Head, 6-c. This is Hiflorical Logick. II. But is this Monarch theHead in civil Government, or only inEcclefiaflick ? Why is your One church no more Oise in anfwering this Queffion ? Nay why were poor Barclay, withrington, and fuch others, whole Writings Goldaflus hathpreferved, to hardly judged of, for plead- ing for Kings Supremacy in Civil Government ? And if you are of their mind, tell us if you can, why God muff not be judged as unreafonable and unwire, if he have not made One Univerfal civil Monarch of all the world? I undertake, when youwill come to a due tryal, to prove, that Civil Government is fuch as may as well, andfar better, be done by officers and Deputies than the Ecclefa- aflical Government can : And I pray who is the Uuniver- fal Monarch ? Or who muff be he ? Or how muff he be chofen ? I would have our King have no mortal King let over him, at leaft without a chufing Vote. And shall they meet in a General Council of Kings to chufe one ? By that time the Place andTime be agreed on, and the Kings have all left their Kingdoms, and be come from the Antipodes, and the Terra Auflralrs incognita, and all other Kingdoms to that Council to chufe a Monarchof the World, they will be too old to returnhome again. Or {hall they fight it out, till one have Conquered all the reft ? Alas, who {hall bear the charge of the Conquefì at the Antipodes, and who thall anfwer for all the Bled ? When
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