m shall
be over.

"_Thirdly_. That for the chief usurpations of the papacy; he leaves
it to Christian princes to join together to vindicate their own
rights, and reduce the Pope _ad Canones_, to that temper, which the
ancient canons allow and require of him; and if that will not be
done, to reform every one in their own dominions.

"_Fourthly_. That what he saith in favour of some Popish doctrines,
above what some other learned Protestants have said, is not so much
by way of _assertion_ or _justification_ of them, as to shew what
reasons they may justly be thought to proceed upon, and so not to
be go irrational or impious as they are ordinarily accounted; and
this only in order to the peace of the christian world, that we may
have as much charity to others and not as high animosities, live
with all men as sweetly and amicably, and peaceably, and not as
bitterly as is possible, accounting the wars and seditions, and
divisions and rebellions, that are raised and managed upon the
account of religion, far greater and more scandalous unchristian
evils, than are the errors of some Romish doctrines, especially as
they are maintained by the more sober and moderate men among them,
Cassander, Picherel, &c.

"_Fifthly_. What he saith in his _Discussio_, of a conjunction of
Protestants with those that adhere to the Bishop of Rome, is no
farther to be extended, than his words extend it. That there is not
any other visible way to the end there mentioned by him, of
acquiring or preserving universal unity. That this is to be done,
not crudely, by returning to them as they are, submitting our necks
to our former yokes, but by taking away at once the division, and
the causes of it, on which side soever; adding only in the third
place, that the bare primacy of the Bishop of Rome, _secundum
Canones_, such as the ancient canons allow of, (which hath nothing
of _supreme universal power_, or authority in it,) is none of those
causes, nor consequently necessary to be excluded in the [Greek:
diallaktikon], citing that as the confession of that excellent
person Philip Melancthon. So that in effect, that whole speech of
his which is so solemnly vouched by Mr. Knott, and looked on so
jealously by many of us, is no more than this, 'that such a Primacy
of the Bishop of Rome, as the ancient canons allo