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9. No Church that sendeth three or four Bishops to represent a thousand or two thousand Pastors, can be sure how those Bishops will carry it when they come thither. For ought we know they may betray our cause, and cross their instructions: They may be perverted by the reasonings of erroneous men, or bribed by the powerful: And to cast our faith on so slender an assurance, is little wisdom.

9. No Church that sendeth three or four Bishops to represent a thousand or two thousand Pastors, can be sure how those Bishops will carry it when they come thither. For ought we know they may betray our cause, and cross their instructions: They may be perverted by the reasonings of erroneous men, or bribed by the powerfull: And to cast our faith on so slender an assurance, is little wisdom.

10. If consent only bind us to the Decrees of Councils (to submit to them as our Rule,) then is Posterity bound that did not consent as their Fathers did, or are they not? If not, we are free? If yea, by what bond? And then why do not the Grotians in Ireland and England obey the Antiarminian Decrees of the Churches in both? Did not the Church of England send Bishop Carlton, Bishop Hall, Bishop Davenant (afterward a Bishop) Dr. Ward. Dr. Goad, and Balcanquall Episcopal Divines to the Synod of Dort, and so England was a part of that Synod? And yet the Grotians and Arminians think not themselves bound to receive the Doctrine of that Synod, nor to forbear reproaching it.

11. It is unjust that any (especially most) of the Churches should be obliged by the votes of others, and oppressed by Majority, merely because their distance, or poverty, or the age, or weakness of their Pastors disableth them to send any, or an equal number, or to defray the charge of their abode, &c. Ah if good Pope Zechariah, or Archbishop Boniface had considered that the essence or unity of the Church did consist in a General Council, that must be fetched partly from the Antipodes, they would have thought better on it before they had excommunicated Virgilius, for saying that there were Antipodes, or quod alius mundus, & alii homines sunt sub terras. Dr. Heylin tells us in his Geography, Lib. 1. pag. 25. that Bede (de ratione temporum, cap. 32.) calleth it a fable that there are Antipodes, and not to be believed: and adds that Augustine, Lactantius, and some other of the Learned of those better times condemned it as a ridiculous incredible fable, whose words (saith he) I could put down at large, did I think it necessary.] And did that age dream that the Being or Unity of the Church, or the salvation of the Believers soul depended on this Article, that a General Council, partly called from the Antipodes must be the Churches