The second part of The nonconformists plea for peace being an account of their…

2. The Popes Authority and the Patriarchs of Alexandria and Antioch had the same foundation, as is evident to any knowing man in Councils and Church History: but the Authority of the Patriarchs is confessedly of humane Institution, and therefore Jerusalem and Constantinople were after added by men. The Council of Nice, of Chalcedon, &c. testify this. See Comment. in Epist. Synodal. Basil. p. 31. & 40. Impress. Colen. 1613.

2. The Popes Authority and the Patriarchs of Alexandria and Antioch had the same foundation, as is evident to any knowing man in Councils and Church History: but the Authority of the Patriarchs is confessedly of humane Institution, and therefore Jerusalem and Constantinople were after added by men. The Council of Nice, of Chalcedon, &c. testifie this. See Comment. in Epist. Synodal. Basil. p. 31. & 40. Impress. Colen. 1613.

3. The whole Greek Church from the first comp•••ition of Constantinople to this day hath taken the Roman Prima[…]y to be of humane institution; which is infallibly proved because they set up that seat against it, which they all confess to have its dignity by humane institution. And no Christian can set up humane institution against that which he acknowledgeth Divine: Therefore by their competition they show, that they never took Rome to have any other foundation, than Constantinople, which was humane: and so their Councils profess, and consequently all the Greek Church even in its Glory did believe that there was no such head over all the world; (for the Emperor had no such power) nor any of Divine institution over the Empire: nor did John of Constantinople when he claimed that universality which Gregory condemned, extend his claim any further than the Empire, or at least not to all the world. It is therefore most evident that Rome was in one Empire, but as Canterbury in this one Kingdom, the prime Patriarch in a National or Imperial Church, of mans appointment.

3. The whole Greek Church from the first comp•••ition of Constantinople to this day hath taken the Roman Prima〈…〉y to be of humane institution; which is infallibly proved because they set up that seat against it, which they all confess to have its dignity by humane institution. And no Christian can set up humane institution against that which he acknowledgeth Divine: Therefore by their competition they shew, that they never took Rome to have any other foundation, than Constantinople, which was humane: and so their Councils profess, and consequently all the Greek Church even in its Glory did believe that there was no such head over all the world; (for the Emperor had no such power) nor any of Divine institution over the Empire: nor did John of Constantinople when he claimed that universality which Gregory condemned, extend his claim any further than the Empire, or at least not to all the world. It is therefore most evident that Rome was in one Empire, but as Canterbury in this one Kingdom, the prime Patriarch in a National or Imperial Church, of mans appointment.