Against the revolt to a foreign jurisdiction, which would be to England its perjury,…

These men being offended at the Separating part of the Reformation, were taken with the notion of Unity and Government, but understood not the true state of the Controversy, and were of two minds among themselves. 1. Some had long had an untried notion by Tradition, that the Church throughout the World was One Body Politic under one Humane Government. 2. Others never thought of that, but having seen a submission of all the Western Churches to the Pope, thought a Separation unlawful.

These men being offended at the Separating part of the Reformation, were taken with the notion of Unity and Government, but understood not the true state of the Controversie, and were of two minds among themselves. 1. Some had long had an untryed notion by Tradition, that the Church throughout the World was One Body Politick under one Humane Government. 2. Others never thought of that, but having seen a submission of all the Western Churches to the Pope, thought a Separation unlawful.

§ X. But the case of the Separation, which they understood not who blamed it, was this.

The Reformers took the Universal Church in all the Earth to have no Head, King, or Sovereign Governor but Christ, none else having the least show of true capacity or right; and therefore that none had an Universal Legislative, Judicial or Executive Power: And a Church-Sovereignty was a more irrational conceit than a Civil Sovereignty over all the Earth: And an Aristocracy of Bishops more irrational than a Papal Monarchy. Therefore they professed not to separate from Papists as Christians, or from any of their Societies as parts of Christ's Church; but to renounce, deny, and separate from their new Usurped Church-Species or Form, as it is feigned to be an Universal Humane Sovereign with his Subjects. Had they never corrupted other Doctrine or Worship this Church-Species of Universal Sovereignty, is to be separated from.