( 67 ) When one cannot get all Europe at a cheaper rate, than will be expreffed by many Kingdoms groans, and the Soil dunged with mens flefhand blood. I have long ago on this fùbjec`I given (in myKey for Catholicks) an An- f'wer to Richlieu, and to Carol. Boverittis, who rote for the Honour of Ecclefiafiick Monarchy, from the fimili- tudeof Civil, to have perverted our late King ; as if be wouldhave madehimbelieve, that the World mult have one mortal Monarch. Contrarily, If it be Madnefs and zloflility to all Kings andStates, for any one man on earth to claim and Peek to be the Monarch of all the world in Cizil Government, vii; is Saadnefs andhoflility to Kings, Paflors, andPeople, for any one man to claim and feek to be the Monarch of all the world in Ecclefaflick Government. But the former is true ,Ergo, fo 'is, the latter. I am ready to make good the Coniparifoñ. III. But, Sir, if thePope beS. Peter's Succefí'or, is not his 4poflolick office as Univerfal as his Monarchy or Ruling office ? Surely the firfl part of the Apoflles office was to preach and baptize, and make Chriflians and gather Churches, and theGoverning ofthemwas but the fecond part : And is the Pope theApofile ofall the world ? Then it feemeth that he is a betrayer ofmoil ofthe whole earth to the Devil, that neither preacheth to them per fe vel per4lios,.: But S. Peter's Charge was not Kniver fal but Indefinite. And even as to Government, why did he never fo much as fend his Deputies to govern the Abaffins for fo many hundred years ? Nay hence it feem- eth to follow, that all the preaching and Church-order that häth been for fo many hundred years, either there or in any other Nation, by which millions have been turned toChrittianityand edified, without themillion or I z Com
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