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7. Also when they meet with the passages that speak of the elevation of their Pope to be their first Patriarch, in the Roman Empire, or any Power that by the Emperors was given him, they cunningly confound the Empire with the world, and especially if they find it called by the name of the world; and they would persuade you that all other Christians and Churches on earth, did ascribe as much to the Bishop of Rome, as the Roman Empire did. Its true that he was in the Empire acknowledged to be first in order of dignity, because of Rome the seat of his Episcopacy; especially when General Councils began to trouble themselves and the world about such matters of precedency. And its well known from the language of their writers, as well as from the words of Luke 2. 1. that they usually called the Empire all the world: And from such passages would the Papists prove the Primacy at least of the Pope over all the world. But put these Jugglers to it, to prove if they can, that beyond the Rivers Meroes and Euphrates, and beyond the bounds of the Roman Empire, the Pope did either exercise Dominion, or was once so much as regarded by them, any more then any other Bishop, except there were any adjacent Island or Country that had their dependence upon the Empire. I hope they will not deny that the Church extended much beyond the Empire. (Though our History of that part of it be much defective.) And let them prove if they can, that ever any of those Churches had any regard to the Roman Bishop, any more then to another man. Let them tell you where either the Empire of the Abassines or any other out of the line of the Imperial power, was any whit like-subject to the Pope.

7. Also when they meet with the passages that speak of the elevation of their Pope to be their first Patriarch, in the Roman Empire, or any Power that by the Emperors was given him, they cunningly confound the Empire with the world, and especally if they find it called by the name of the world; and they would perswade you that all other Christians and Churches on earth, did ascribe as much to the Bishop of Rome, as the Roman Empire did. Its true that he was in the Empire acknowledged to be first in order of dignity, because of Rome the seat of his Episcopacy; especially when General Councils began to trouble themselves and the world about such matters of precedency. And its well known from the language of their writers, as well as from the words of Luke 2. 1