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90.

Furthermore, the line of Ecclesiastical subordination is longer and further stretched then the line of civill subordination; for a National Synod must be subordinate and subject to an universal Synod, in the manner aforesaid, whereas yet there is no Ecumenical Parliament or general civill Court acknowledged, unto which the supreme civill Senate in this or that Nation should be subject. Finally, neither is the Church altogether destitute of nearer remedies, whether an universal council may be had or not.

Furthermore, the line of Ecclesiasticall subordination is longer and further stretched then the line of civill subordination; for a Nationall Synode must be subordinate and subject to an universall Synode, in the manner aforesaid, whereas yet there is no Oecumenicall Parliament or generall civill Court acknowledged, unto which the supreme civill Senate in this or that Nation should bee subject. Finally, neither is the Church altogether destitute of nearer remedies, whether an universall counsell may be had or not.

91.

For the National Synod ought to declare, and that with greatest reverence, to the Magistrate, the grounds of their sentence, and the reasons of their proceedings, when he demandeth or enquireth into the same, and desireth to be satisfied: but if the Magistrate nevertheless do dissent, or cannot by contrary reasons (which may be brought, if he please) move the Synod to alter their judgement, yet may he require and procure that the matter be again debated and canvassed in another National Synod; and so the reasons of both sides being throughly weighed, may be lawfully determined in an Ecclesiastical way.