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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 ⟨p. 418⟩Head or Governors? or that the Pope at least must be acknowledged and obeyed by every Christian soul that will be saved at the Antipodes? And Sir Fradcis Drake and Cavendish would not have been so famous for compassing the world, if men had understood, that when the Gospel is spread through the earth, so many poor old Bishops must ordinarily take half such Journeys or voyages to do their business. If the Decree of the Council of Constance had been executed, to have had a General Council every ten years, many would scarce have had time to go and come. But the charitable Church of Rome hath found out a Remedy, not only by the rarity of their Councils (let them decree what they will to the contrary) but also by condemning the most of the Churches, and the remotest, as Heretics, and sending them to Hell, to save them a journey to the General Council.

11. It is unjust that any (especially most) of the Churches should be obliged by the votes of others, and oppressed by Majority, meerly 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 Zachary, 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 tels 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