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1. A Pope's Bull and a Pope's Brief differ much; as with us the Great Seal and Privy

Seal. The Bull being the highest Authority the Pope can give, the Brief is of less: The Bull has a Leaden Seal upon Silk, hanging upon the Inftrument; the Brief has fub Annulo Pifcatoris upon the fide.

2. He was a wife Pope, that when one that used to be with him, before he was advanc'd to the Popedom, refrain'd afterwards to come at him, (presuming he was bufie in governing the Christian World) the Pope fends for him, bids him come again, and (fays he) me will be merry as we were before; for thou little thinkeft what a little Foolery governs the whole World.

3. The Pope, in fending Relicks to Princes, does as Wenches do by their Waffels at New-years-tide, they present you with a Cup, and you must drink of a slabby ftuff; but the meaning is, you must give them Moneys, ten times more than it is worth.

4. The Pope is Infallible, where he hath Power to command; that is, where he must be obeyed, fo is every Supream Power and Prince. They that stretch his Infallibility further, do they know not what.

5. When a Protestant and a Papift dispute, they talk like two Mad-men, because they do not agree upon their Principles; the one way is to destroy the Pope's Power, for if he hath Power to command me, 'tis not my alledging Reasons to the contrary can keep me from obeying: For Example, if a Conftable command me to wear a green Suit to Morrow, and has Power to make me; 'tis not my alledging a hundred Reasons of the Folly of it, can excufe me from doing it.

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6. There was a Time when the Pope had Power here in England, and there was excellent Ufe made of it, for 'twas only to ferve Turns, (as might be manifested out of the Records of that Kingdom, which Divines know little of.) If the King did not like what the Pope would have, he would forbid the Pope's Legate to land upon his Ground. So that the Power was truly then in the King, though fuffered in the Pope. But now the Temporal and the Spiritual Power (Spiritual fo call'd, becaufe ordain'd to a Spiritual End) fpring both from one Fountain, they are like to twist

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7. The Protestants in France bear Office in the State, because, though their Religion be different, yet they acknowledge no other King but the King of France. The Papifts in England they miuft have a King of their own, a Pope, that must do something in our Kingdom, therefore there is no reason they should enjoy the fame Priviledges.

8. Amfterdam admits of all Religions but Papifts, and 'tis upon the fame account. The Papists, where e'er they live, have another King at Rome; all other Religions arc fubject to the prefent State, and have no Prince elfe-where.

9. The Papifts call our Religion a Parliamentary Religion; but there was once, I am fure, a Parliamentary Pope; Pope Urban was made Pope in England by Act of Parliament, against Pope Clement: The A&t is not in the Book of Statutes, either because he that compiled the Book would not have the Name of the Pope there, or elfe he would not let it appear that they medled with any fuch thing, but 'tis upon the Rolls.

ro. When our Clergy preach against the Pope, and the Church of Rome, they preach againft themselves, and crying down their Pride, their Power and their Riches.

have made themselves Poor and Contemptible enough; they dedicate first to please their Prince, not confidering what would follow. Juft as if a Man were to go a Journey, and seeing at his first setting out, the Way clean and fair, ventures forth in his Slippers, not confidering the Dirt and the Sloughs are a little further off, or how suddenly the Weather may change.

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Popery.

THE demanding a Noble, for a dead body pasfing through a Town, came from hence; in time of Popery, they carried the dead Body into the Church, where the Prieft faid Dirgies; and twenty Dirgies at four Pence a piece, comes to a Noble; but now it is forbidden by an Order from my Lord Marhal, the Heralds carry his Warrant about them.

2. We charge the Prelatical Clergy with Popery, to make them odious, tho' we know they are guilty of no fuch thing: Juft as heretofore they call'd Images Mammets, and the Adoration of Images Mammetry; that is, Mahomet and Mahometry; odious Names, when all the World knows the Turks are forbidden Images by their Religion.

Power.

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Power. State.

HERE is no ftretching of Power; 'tis a good

your Commiffion.

2. They that govern moft make leaft Noife. You fee when they row in a Barge, they that do drudgerywork, flash, and puff, and sweat; but he that governs, fits quietly at the Stern, and scarce is seen to ftir.

3. Syllables govern the World.

4. [All Power is of God] means no more than Fides eft fervanda. When St. Paul said this, the People had made Nero Emperor. They agree, he to command, they to obey. Then God comes in, and cafts a hook upon them, keep your Faith; then comes in, all Power is of God. Never King dropt out of the Clouds. God did not make a new Emperor, as the King makes a Justice of Peace.

5. CHRIST himself was a great obferver of the Civil Power, and did many things only justifiable, because the State requir'd it, which were things meerly Temporary for the time that State ftood. But Divines make use of them to gain Power to themselves, (as for Example) that of Dic Ecclefia, tell the Church; there was then a Sanhedrim, a Court to tell it to, and therefore they would have it so now.

6. Divines ought to do no more than what the State permits. Before the State became Christian, they made their own Laws, and those that did not observe them, they Excommunicated, [naughty men] they fuffered them to come no more amongst them. But if they would come amongst them, how could they hinder

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them? by what Law? by what Power? they were ftill fubject to the State, which was Heathen. Nothing better expreffes the Condition of Christians in thofe times, than one of the meetings you have in London, of Men of the fame County, of Suffex-Men, or Bedfordshire-Men; they appoint their Meeting, and they agree, and make Laws amongst themselves [He that is not there shall pay double, &c.] and if any one mis-behave himself, they fhut him out of their Company: But can they recover a Forfeiture made concerning their Meeting by any Law? have they any power to compel one to pay? But afterwards, when the State became Christian, all Power was in them, and they gave the Church as much, or as little as they pleas'd; and took away when they pleas'd, and added what they pleas'd.

7. The Church is not only fubject to the Civil Power with us that are Protestants, but alfo in Spain; if the Church does Excommunicate a Man for what it should not, the Civil Power will take him out of their Hands. So in France, the Bishop of Angiers alter'd fomething in the Breviary; they complain'd to the Parliament at Paris, that made him alter it again, with a [comme abufé.]

8. The Parliament of England has no Arbitrary Power in point of Judicature, but in point of making Law only.

9. If the Prince be servus naturà, of a fervile bafe Spirit, and the Subjects liberi, Free and Ingenuous, oft-times they depofe their Prince, and govern themfelves. On the contrary, if the People be Servi Natura, and fome one amongst them of a Free and Ingenuous Spirit, he makes himself King of the reft; and this is the Cause of all changes in the State, Common-wealths into Monarchies, and Monarchies into Common-wealths.