The safe religion, or, Three disputations for the reformed catholic religion against popery proving…The safe religion, or, Three disputations for the reformed catholike religion against popery proving…

And what good this usurpation did, himself confesseth in the following words [Though it first broke the conventicles of Heretics — Ita deinceps nihil attulit commodi▪ cum per id jam pene desitum sit a concilis habendis, in quibus cuncta ex aequo traictarentur Pontifice, Romano ejusmodi negotium non magnopere curante] i. e. [Afterwards it did no good, when by reason of this, Councils are almost ceased, in which all things should be equally handled, the Pope of Rome not much regarding any such matter] Where he addeth [That therefore Pope Martin the fifth in the Council of Constance decreed that a Council should be called every tenth year, which hitherto hath not been kept, and therefore Religion grows daily worse] Where by the way we may see what power the Laws of the Pope and General Councils have, and what a Religion Popery is, which sweareth men to believe and obey the Decrees of such Councils, which no man ever obeyed since they were made: For there hath been never since a Decennial Council: And the Pope himself by confirming that Council which decreed that a Council is above the Pope, did show himself obliged to obey it, and so to have called a Council accordingly. But all others must swear to that as Gods Word and infallible, which themselves contemn. But to proceed.

And what good this usurpation did, himself confesseth in the following words [Though it first broke the conventicles of Hereticks — Ita deinceps nihil attulit commodi▪ cum per id jam pene desitum sit a concilis habendis, in quibus cuncta ex aequo traictarentur Pontifice, Romano ejusmodi negotium non magnopere curante] i. e. [Afterwards it did no good, when by reason of this, Councils are almost ceased, in which all things should be equally handled, the Pope of Rome not much rega•ding any such matter] Where he addeth [That therefore Pope Martin the fifth in the Council of Constance decreed that a Council should be called every tenth year, which hitherto hath not been kept, and therefore Religion grows daily worse] Where by the way we may see what power the Laws of the Pope and General Councils have, and what a Religion Popery is, which sweareth men to believe and obey the Decrees of such Councils, which no man ever obeyed since they were made: For there hath been never since a Decennial Council: And the Pope himself by confirming that Council which decreed that a Council is above the Pope, did shew himself obliged to obey it, and so to have called a Council accordingly. But all others must swear to that as Gods Word and infallible, which themselves contemne. But to proceed.