§ The same power, and no other, was given by Christ to Peter and his successors, the Bishops of Rome, and to the Universal Church, which to himself, as man, had been given by his Father: As the living Father sent me, I also send you. Now he invariably denied that he received any-temporal power, by declaring that his kingdom is not of this world; by flying away when certain persons who wished to make him a king; by his answer to one who said to him, Master, speak to my brother to divide the inheritance with me; and by his commanding tribute to be paid to Cæsar. Therefore, since the rights of the King of England, whether they persecute or tolerate the Catholics, are founded on the same principles with those of all other sovereign princes under heaven, we are firmly of opinion, that neither the Roman Pontiff, nor the Cardinals, nor any council, nor any individual in the Catholic Church, by virtue of his communion with the Catholic Church, has any civil authority, power, jurisdiction, or pre-eminence in the kingdom of Great Britain.