[z6o three hundred years (unlefs he ofEdeffa, or La.: Sias of E. ;bland, of whom we have little certain- ty but it's like that both were fubjeas to thers) yet if a Su :ream Church-Power had been neceffary, the Apoftles would have before eret ó ed it ; which they never did : For even Rome pretendeth to he by them made the Ruler of the whole world, and not a meer National Head (which GonfA«tinople claimed, but not as of A- poi`tolical inftitution.) § 27. The que Lion whether the Jews,had they believed, fhould have continued their High- Prieft and Church Policy, is vain as to our pur- pofe; r. Ir being certain to Chrift that they would be diflolved by unbelief : And 2. he ha- ving ítctlled another way, and changed theft's : 3.`And if their Priesthood and Law (except as it typified fpiritual things) had flood, yet it would nor have bound the Gentile Chriftians in other Nations. 28. When Emperours became Chriflians, they did not fet up the Jewifh Policy, nor thought themfelves bound to it ; no nor any fctled Prieltly Supremacy for National Govern- ment': For Councils were called but on rare accidents by the Empéreurs themfelves, and to decide particular cafes about Herefes: And the Pope had but the first voice in fuch Councils. 9. P,ut,if every Nation muft have the Jew- ítlt Policy, then the «thole Empire muft then have one High Prieft, and then the Pope hath a fair pretence to his claim of a Divine Inflitution, as the Church, Soveraign- of the whole Empire, Which, it's like, was then (even parts in eight of the whole Cliriftïan world at leaft, (unlefs 4f b J
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