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Ephcfaans,Chap.
æ.,
VER,
ZO.
called, yea
all living ftones
each
to other.
But
this
maketh nothing
for
the Pope for they
will have
the
Pope to be
but
a
minifteriall
and fecondary foundation.
Anfw.
It
is
otherwise,
they
make
him
fuch a
foundation, that the finking
and ruining
of
him,
is
the
fhaking
and fall
of
all
the
Church; that
as
the
Sunne
is in
the heaven,
fo
is
hee
in
the
Church. Further,
wee mull know
that
their
dot-trine
maketh
hima
proper foundation, one, from whole perfon
all things flow unto
the
Church
immediately,
all
determinations
of
truth,
Lawes binding
the confcience,
all
adminiftration
of
holy
things ;
as
the
vertue
of
Chrift
is
the taufe
of
them,
fo
the
perfon
of
the Pope
is
the Conduit.
pipe
of
them;
fo
that, whatfoever they
believe, it
is
alter
a fort
refol-
ved into
the
Pope.
For
look
as all
the work
of
the Spirit
is
determined
in
the lively
voyce and Scripture: So
all
the Faith
of rapids
is
deterrai.
nett in
the voyce
ofthe Pope,
and
builded on him.
They
make him
a
foundatioo,on which immediately
and
next
of
all
our Faith
is
groun-
sk
nmenrs
aga
ded on
Chrift.
But ,
r. The
foundation on which we are laid,
is
the
aiintt
dxm.
tame on which the
Prophets
budded
:
the
Prophets
builded
not on
z.
the Pape. Secondly, it the Pope were profvrlÿ the
foundation
of
2.
us,
though fècondfrom
Cbrift,
then we
fhould
bee built
firft
on
the
P:.pt,
by
meine
of
him on
Chrift.
But
we
are not
built on
men
,
but
immediately
on
Chrift.
We
preach
not
cur
!elves
as
Lords
ofynurFaìih,
but
(.1;ri.Fl,
and
our
laves
your
f
r
cants
for
Chrifls
fake.
a.
Cor.
4,
5.
Saint
Peter
telirrh rhe
Jewes,
that they
were come, not
unto
him,
but
i
Pee.x,q
ç.&.
unto Chrifl
a
Corner-fiche:
Paul
isyours
cilpolles
,
Peter,
but
you
are
Chuflo,
I.Ccr.
3.
az.
As ye
have received Chrifl
lefus
ì
fo
walke
in
him
rooted
and built
in
him,
Col. e. 6,
7.
3
Thirdly, God
gave Saint
Peter,
not to
bee
a
foundation, but
to
bee
a
Cur.3.io.
awe/ter-builder.
Take
we
then
thefe Conclufions.
z.
None
can
be
a
foundation properly bearing
up, but
Chrift;
for
it
is
the
fpirit
of
Faith comming
from him which
Both
up-
hold
us.
a. The
Apoftleswere
not,
any
of
them, but
minifters
laying
this
foundation.
3.
None
is
fo a foundation ,
as
the Apoftles were
none
having
immediate and infallible
alïiftance.
Diftiniìions
muff
be
proved from Scripture.
a.
If
there
were
a minifteriall head
,
then men
fhould fay;
I
am
Cephas,
&c,
a.
Then
the
iteoftle
ihould build men
firft
on
Peter,
then
on
Chrif
:
Bnr
'eter
and
ehe
reft , call
them
immediately
to
Chrif?. co/.2.7. I
.Pet.
à
.
4,
5.
6.
3.
If
Peter
had been
the
foundation
of
the Catholique Church,
titan
P:<sl
fhoul-.0
every where
have
built on others
founda-
elation,
but he
did not fo.
Rom.
15.
zo. I enforced
my
f
lfe to
preach the
Gofell
(faith
Paul)
not where
Chrifl
was
named,
left
I
fbouldhave
built onanother
mans foundation.
V
ER.
íi.
V
R
R
s.
2
z. In
whomall
thebuilding
coupled
together, groweth
unto
an
holy Temple
in
the
Lord.
Now
M