A moral prognostication I. what shall befall the churches on Earth, till their concord

And all the Plots also, of the Moderating Papists, that Talk of a Political Church-Catholic, having a Visible Constitutive, or Governing-Head; whether Monarchial, (the Pope); or Aristocratical or Democratical, (the Patriarchs, or a General-Council): And that Talk of Universal Laws of this Church, made by such a Universal-Head; besides the Universal Laws of Christ, And falsely feign the Councils called General, in a Particular Empire, called or ruled by one Emperor only, in his own Dominions; to have been Universal, as to all the Catholic Churches on Earth, And that feign these Councils to have been Infallible, which so often erred, and crossed ⟨p. 66⟩each other: And that set the World upon the undeterminable Controversy, Which were true General Councils; and, How many we must Receive, and Conform to: Whether only Four, or Six, or Eight; and till what Age. And that would persuade the Christian World, that what-ever diversity of Canons, Customs, or Church-Laws, or Ceremonies, are allowed among them, it must all be done or held by this same Authority of the Pope, or Council, or Both: to which (though Foreign) Kings and Bishops must all be subject; and from which, they must receive their Christianity; and by which, all their Reformations must be tried, And that none must be taken as Catholics, nor any Churches tolerated, that hold not such a Factious Union, under such an Usurping Head, Personal or Collective, But as Tertullian speaketh, rather than endure such Wiser and Better Societies; Solitudinem facerent, & vocarent Pacem; And as a Worldly Clergy, whose Church and Kingdom is only of and in this World, would banish from it all (save a Lifeless-Image) which hath any Kin to Heaven; and suffer none to Live in this World among them, but themselves.