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6 IX Holy Magiſtrates, or that Churchmen have power over ſtates.

X. Of Nunneries, Monaſteries, &c. or houſes where holy virgins live retired from the world of mankind; no man being permitted there by the prieſts.

XI. Of many orders of Prieſts—I The Pope —2 Arch Cardinals—3. Arch Biſhops—4 Ordinary Biſhops—5 Prieſts—6 Friars—7 Monks, &c. They hold that there is no ſalvation out of their Church. They adore particular places, relics of the dead, wells, saints, tombs-and go on pilgrimage to them

They believe that the ſouls of unbaptized children wander or hover about in the air till the laſt day.

Of the Church of England. About the year 1570, Henry 8th, King of England, threw off the Pope's authority, protested against the Church of Rome, and put the Church of England on a new footing, having no higher churchmen than Biſhops. They deny all the aforementioned articles held by the Roman church, and hold the doctrines of Luther, Calvin, and other Proteſtant Reformers in Germany.

Of the Church of Scotland The people of Scotland, being weary of the tyranny, oppreſſion, and licentious lives of the Roman Clergy, and having received conſiderable ght from the preaching of one Mr George Wiſhart, an eminent divine, who had been ructed in the principles of the Proteſtant religion