( 24,5, }` Dignity, Jurifdi rion, or Wealth, in fome Inflances . wherein they got the Advantage one ofanother, became in all there things to equal Kingdomes and Principalities. yea one of them to Claim a .Monarchy over the whole World. During the Progreffion ofthis Apoffacy, Church U-., nityand Schifîne declined from their. Centre, and varied their frate according unto the prefent Intereft of them.: that prevailed. Whoever had got Poffeffion of the name of the Church in a prevailing Reputation, though the frate ofit was never fo Corrupt, made it bite and devour, all that difliked it, and would fwear that fill,- mif[on unto them in all things, was Church-Unity, and to diffent from them was Schifete. Unto that frate all the World know that things were come in the Church of Rome. Howbeit what hath been difputed about or contended for, of `Power, `Priviledges, ,,authority, Pre- heminence, jurifdiclion, Catholicifine, wayes of Worfhip,, Rule, and Difcipline, which the World is filled with, fuch a noire about ; and in the difpute whereof fo many various Hypothefes are advanced; that cannot be ac- córnmodated unto fuch Chriflian Congregations as we have defcribed, are but the Effects of the Prudence or Imprudence of men, and what it will prove the Event will Phew. Things of this Nature being once well ... underftood, will deliver the World from innumerable fruitiefs, end- lefs Conteils 5 Sovereign `Princes from all difturbance on the account of Religion, and private Perlons from the fatal Mill* of entrufting the eternal Concernments of their Souls, unto their Relation unto one Church, and not
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