§. 52. But, say they, Cum Universa Ecclesia Catholica sciret minus malum esse caput quantum libet monstrosum proferre quam unum corpus in duo secari, & duobus capitibus informari, eundem toto orb terrarum tanquam verum & legitimum Pontificem venerata fuit. Answ. 1. What a shameless Dream do you impose on us, under the Name of, Totus orbis Terrarum? What had the Ethiopians, the Armenians, yea, or the Greek-Church, to do with Pope John? Or, What was it to them, how he was called, or what he was? Did not the Patriarch of Constantinople then write himself, the Universal Patriarch? (even Tryphon, that they said, could not write any thing else.) Where is your Proof of this Universal Concession? Which way did the whole Catholic-Church (or the Tenth or Hundredth Part of it) signify their Consent? 2. Who taught you to feign the State and Necessity of such a Church, as must have another Universal Head besides Christ? You know, that it is the Being of such a Church or Head, (be he never so Good) that we deny: And you have never proved, nor can prove it. He only is the Universal Head, who maketh Universal Laws, and undertaketh Universal Teaching, and is an Universal Judge and Protector; none of which any Mortal man can perform. The very Fiction of such a Head and Body, is Monstrous, and your Capital Error. 3. How small a part of the Christian World was subject to the Pope, at that time; though within his reach, he was almost at the Height of his Presumption? 4. He that wanteth what is Essential to a true Bishop, is no true Bishop: But Pope John the Twelfth wanted what what was Essential to a true Bishop: Ergo, He was none. The Minor is proved: He that wanteth the necessary Disposition of the Receptive Matter, and is not Subjectum Capax, wanteth that which is Essential to a true a Bishop: (For the Materia Disposita is an Essential Constitutive Cause; a Subjectum Capax is Essential to a Relation.) But John the Twelfth wanted the Necessary Disposition of the Matter ad Formam Recipiendam, or was not Subjectum Ca•ax: Proved. He that wanted capable Age, and all other Things necessary to a lawful Pope, was not Subjectum Capax; but wanted the necessary Disposition Receptive. But all these, you say your selves, Pope John wanted: Ergo, &c.
§. 52. But, say they, Cum Vniversa Ecclesia Catholica sciret minus malum esse caput quantum libet monstrosum proferre quam unum corpus in duo secari, & duobus capitibus informari, eundem toto orbe terrarum tanquam verum & legitimum Pontificem venerata fuit. Answ. 1. What a shameless Dream do you impose on us, under the Name of, Totus orbis Terrarum? What had the Ethiopians, the Armenians, yea, or the Greek-Church, to do with Pope Iohn? Or, What was it to them, how he was called, or what he was? Did not the Patriark of Constantinople then write himself, the Vniversal Patriark? (even Tryphon, that they said, could not write any thing else.) Where is your Proof of this Universal Concession? Which way did the whole Catholick-Church (or the Tenth or Hundredth Part of it) signify their Consent? 2. Who taught you to feign the State and Necessity of such a Church, as must have another Universal Head besides Christ? You know, that it is the Being of such a Church or Head, (be he never so Good) that we deny: And you have never proved, nor can prove it. He only is the Universal Head, who maketh Universal Laws, and undertaketh Universal Teaching, and is an Universal Judge and Protector; none of which any Mortal man can perform. The very Fiction of such a Head and Body, is Monstrous, and your Capital Error. 3. How small a part of the Christian World was subject to the Pope, at that time; though within his reach, he was almost at the Heighth of his Presumption? 4. He that wanteth what is Essential to a true Bishop, is no true Bishop: But Pope Iohn the Twelfth wanted what what was Essential to a true Bishop: Ergo, He was none. The Minor is proved: He that wanteth the necessary Disposition of the Receptive Matter, and is not Subjectum Capax, wanteth that which is Essential to a true a Bishop: (For the Materia Disposita is an Essential Constitutive Cause; a Subjectum Capax is Essential to a Relation.) But Iohn the Twelfth wanted the Necessary Disposition of the Matter ad Formam Recipiendam, or was not Subjectum Ca•ax: Proved. He that wanted capable Age, and all other Things necessary to a lawful Pope, was not Subjectum Capax; but wanted the necessary Disposition Receptive. But all these, you say your selves, Pope Iohn wanted: Ergo, &c.
