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IV. Reason. The said Papacy is an arrogant Usurpation of the Power of all the Christian Princes and Pastors upon earth, or of a Power over them, never given by Christ: It setteth up a Kingdom in a Kingdom, and taketh from Pastors the power which Christ gave them, over their particular flocks.

V. Reason. The said Papacy is a mere humane Institution: They confess themselves, that it is not of Divine faith that the Bishop of Rome is St. Peters Successor by Divine Right: It is no article of their own faith: But History fully assureth us, that it was but in the Roman Empire, that the Roman Bishop was made Supreme: as the Archbishop of Canterbury is in England: And that he standeth on the same humane foundation as the other four Patriarchs of the Empire did. And that their General Councils were called by the Emperors, and were called General only with respect to that Empire. And there never was such a thing as a General Council of all the Christian world, nor ever can be: And that there never was such, is most notorious yet by the Names subscribed to all the Councils. But they abuse the world, and claim that power over all the Christians on earth, which one Prince gave his subject-Prelates in his Empire: As if the General Assembly of Scotland or France should pretend to be a General Council of the world, and the Archbishop of Canterbury should call himself Archbishop of all the Church on earth, and claim the government of it.

V. Reason. The said Papacy is a meer humane Institution: They confess themselves, that it is not of Divine faith that the Bishop of Rome is St. Peters Successor by Divine Right: It is no article of their own faith: But History fully assureth us, that it was but in the Roman Empire, that the Roman Bishop was made Supream: as the Archbishop of Canterbury is in England: And that he standeth on the same humane foundation as the other four Patriarchs of the Empire did. And that their General Councils were called by the Emperours, and were called General only with respect to that Empire. And there never was such a thing as a General Council of all the Christian world, nor ever can be: And that there never was such, is most notorious yet by the Names subscribed to all the Councils. But they abuse the world, and claim that power over all the Christians on earth, which one Prince gave his subject-Prelates in his Empire: As if the General Assembly of Scotland or France should pretend to be a General Council of the world, and the Archbishop of Canterbury should call himself Archbishop of all the Church on earth, and claim the government of it.