[ 236] thority to chufe, elect, ordain, and, up- on Occafion, to remove and difplace ALL Ecclefiaflical Officers; and, as the Book fayeth, to vifit, decide Caufes, appoint thereon Meetings, Conferences and Synods; in the End, what is left to her Majefly ? or wherein is the fulfil- ling of that Law, which fayeth, that all Authority to vifit, reform, redrefs, order, elegy, correct, make Laws, abrogate Laws, call Synods, &c. is an- nex'd unto her Royal Crown and Dig- nity, and doth not appertain to any other in a Chriflian Kingdom, but as derived thence. Thirdly, it appeareth both in the Bill and Book, that if any Difficulty or Ag- grievances doarife in thefe Presbyteries, there lyeth noAppeal, but from the Pref- bytery to the Conference; from that to aprovincial Synod ; and thence to a na- tional. Whereas, when her Majefly's Father did firft abandon Popery, this was his chiefefl Endeavour, that the Appeals which were made to Rome might, by Degrees, come into his Chan- cery : So as hereby it is manifeft, as I think, that this newDevice is very in- jurious to her Majefty7s Supremacy. Now of the fecoñd Point ; how it .diminUheth her Majefly's Strength and Ability. In my Conceit, her Majeftys Strength
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