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Dr. H. pag. 55.
2. The Councel of Trent consisted for the most part of Italian Bishops; some others being added for fashion sake, and that it might the better challenge the name of General: as that of Dort, consisted for the most part of the Delegates of the Belgick Churches, to whom the foreign Divines were found inconsiderable.
Answ. What a wilde parallel is this? Is it equally faulty for a National Synod to consist mostly of the Delegates of the Belgick Churches, and for a Councel pretending to be Oecumenical, to consist mostly of Italian Bishops, and those many of them but titular? Far better, and with more co∣lour of reason it might be objected against our Synods, or Convocations here in England, that they consist not mostly, bu only of English Divines; not one Foreigner being ad∣mitted either to consult or to decide, nor the Puritan Non-conformists so much as invited to declare their Opinions, or to alledge any thing in their own Justification. Who ever till now found in any History, a National Synod brand∣ed and censured, because as many Foreigners were not ad∣mitted to it, as there were of that very Nation for whose sake the Synod was assembled?