X68 Cornmißîon of the Roman Monarch, íliould have been left undone, and all was unlawful ? IV. But muff your Pope be obeyed as Supreme but in theVacancy ofGeneral Councils ? Dare you preach this at Rome ? i , How then come the Councils ofconftance and Bafal for fuch Dotrine to be unapproved or reprobate coun- cils? How came Pope Eugenic to keep up and continue the fucceßîon, when fò great a General Council had de- pofed him as Heretical, Simoniacal, and many ways flagi- tious ? a. And what ? Have we a Catholick Church with twoHeads ? that areper vices the Vicars of Chrift ? A Pope one year, and a Council another ? Then fure they Are two Churches, feeing thePars imperans is the fpecify- ingpart. 3. But thebeft is, it is at the Pope's will, whe- ther ever there shall be a General Council more ? And he knowethwhich fide his Bread is Buttered on ? Nay, they fay, no Decree is valid withouthis approbation : And if ever a john, or Eugenics of them all will approve ofhis own Depofition for Herefie, Simony, Adultery, &c. he is not the Man that I took him for. 4. But if the name [GeneralCouncil] benot aCheat, and taken for aCoun- cil very far from being General, as to the whole Chriflian world, let the Pope fet his heart at reft, I will undertake to fecure him from the danger offuch a Council, and to prove that fuch there never ought tobe, will be, or can be, unlefs Chriffianity come muchnearer to be rooted out of the Earth, and the Church brought into a narrower room. V. But you have a refle&ing Comparifon between the Kings prefding and the Popes, and between a National Council and theBifhops of the whole Chriffian world. To begin at the later part. Alas poor ignorant Man, if you believe this your feif? And alas unfaithful Man, if
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