Church-history of the government of bishops and their councils abbreviated including the chief part…

5. If then the Universal Church had so erred, as to take him for a Bishop that was none; that Error would not make him a Bishop, no more than it would make a dead Man alive, or an illiterate Man learned. But this is the Roman-Catholic kind of Proof: You say your selves, That a Whore, and a wicked Son of that Whore, got Power enough to over-top the Citizens of Rome, and the Clergy, (yet too like them) and to thrust a wicked uncapable Fellow into the Chair. ⟨p. 327⟩When that is done, it's known, all good Men dissent and abhor it. But when he hath Possession, they must know that he hath Possession: And, What can they do to help it? What Power have the Ethiopians, Armenians, Syrians, or other Nations of the Earth, in choosing the Pope of Rome? And if they have none in Choosing him, What Power have they to examine the Choice, and Depose him? And if they have no Power, Why or how should they signify their Consent or Dissent? If they leave your own Matters to your selves, What is that to the Consent of the Catholic-Church? But some men think, that big Words to the Ignorant may serve for Proof, even of a Right to Govern at the Antipodes, and all the World.

5. If then the Universal Church had so erred, as to take him for a Bishop that was none; that Error would not make him a Bishop, no more than it would make a dead Man alive, or an illiterate Man learned. But this is the Roman-Catholick kind of Proof: You say your selves, That a Whore, and a wicked Son of that Whore, got Power enough to over-top the Citizens of Rome, and the Clergy, (yet too like them) and to thrust a wicked uncapable Fellow into the Chair. ⟨p. 327⟩When that is done, it's known, all good Men dissent and abhor it. But when he hath Possession, they must know that he hath Possession: And, What can they do to help it? What Power have the Ethiopians, Armenians, Syrians, or other Nations of the Earth, in choosing the Pope of Rome? And if they have none in Choosing him, What Power have they to examine the Choice, and Depose him? And if they have no Power, Why or how should they signify their Consent or Dissent? If they leave your own Matters to your selves, What is that to the Consent of the Catholick-Church? But some men think, that big Words to the Ignorant may serve for Proof, even of a Right to Govern at the Antipodes, and all the World.