The fourth place is that of Exod. 28:30: “Thou shalt put in the breastplate of judgment, the Urim and the Thummim”: which he saith is interpreted by the Septuagint δήλωσιν κàι ἀλήθειαν ; that is, “evidence and truth”; and thence concludeth, God hath given evidence and truth, which is almost infallibility, to the high priest. But be it evidence and truth itself that was given; or be it but admonition to the priest to endeavour to inform himself clearly, and give judgment uprightly; yet in that it was given to the high priest, it was given to the civil sovereign; (for such next under God was the high priest in the commonwealth of Israel); and is an argument for evidence and truth, that is, for the ecclesiastical supremacy of civil sovereigns over their own subjects, against the pretended power of the Pope. These are all the texts he bringeth for the infallibility of the judgment of the Pope in point of faith.

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