Which is the true church? the whole Christian world, as headed only by Christ…

2. May not the world see now what is the foundation of your faith, and the validity of your Authority and Tradition? even your own wills? General Councils tell you the sense of the Church, and the Tradition of your fore-fathers, if you like them. But if the Pope dislike them, they are no lawful Councils, and their testimony null. The sum is, whatever Councils say, the Pope shall never be proved a Heretic or Infidel till he will say that he is one himself, and will subscribe as Marcellinus did to his own condemnation, or with Liberius confess his fault.

2. May not the world see now what is the foundation of your faith, and the validity of your Authority and Tradition? even your own wills? General Councils tell you the sense of the Church, and the Tradition of your fore-fathers, if you like them. But if the Pope dislike them, they are no lawful Councils, and their testimony null. The sum is, whatever Councils say, the Pope shall never be proved a Heretick or Infidel till he will say that he is one himself, and will subscribe as Marcellinus did to his own condemnation, or with Liberius confess his fault.

3. And have not these men a notable advantage to proselyte Ladies and illiterate persons, when if General Councils damn their Popes, it is but bidding them, Prove those to have been lawful Councils. And though I can prove to them that even their own Popes have affirmed them lawful, yet few women are so far skilled in History, and so they must yield to every impudent deceiver: And when I have proved all, it is but as Bellarmine's fetching a denial out of the word Conciliariter, against the approbation of Martin 5.

4. But is this enough for you? what if none were lawful Councils that displease the Pope? Are they therefore no competent witnesses of a matter of fact? In the