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A reply unto M. Hardinges answerA replie vnto M. Hardinges ansvveare
A reply unto M. Hardinges answer by perusing whereof the discrete, and diligent reader may easily see, the weak, and unstable grounds of the Romaine religion, which of late hath been accounted Catholic. By John Jewel Bishop of Salisbury.A replie vnto M. Hardinges ansvveare by perusinge whereof the discrete, and diligent reader may easily see, the weake, and vnstable groundes of the Romaine religion, whiche of late hath beene accompted Catholique. By Iohn Iewel Bishoppe of Sarisburie.
Imprinted at London : In Fleetestreate, at the sign of the Black Oliphant, by Henry Wykes, Anno. 1565Imprinted at London : In Fleetestreate, at the signe of the Blacke Oliphante, by Henry VVykes, Anno. 1565
Article 4 › M. Harding. The .26. Division.Article 4 › M. Hardinge. The .26. Diuision.
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M. Harding. The .26. Division.
M. Hardinge. The .26. Diuision.
That the Bishops of Rome by accustomed practise of the Church had authority to approve or disprove Councils, I need to say nothing for proof of it, seeing that the Ecclesiastical rule (as we read in the Tripartite story) commandeth (111)1 that no Council be celebrate and kept,2 without the advise and authority of the Pope. Verily, the Councils holden at Ariminum, at Seleucia, at Syrmium, at Antiochia, and the second time at Ephesus, for that they were (112.)3 not summoned, nor approved by the authority of the Bishop of Rome, have not ben accounted for lawful Councils: but as well for that rejected, as also for their Heretical determinations. The Fathers assembled in the Council of Nice,4 sent their Epistle to Sylvester the Pope, beseeching him with his consent to ratify, and confirm, what so ever they had ordained. Isidorus witnesseth, that the Nicene Council had set forth rules, the which (saith he) the Church of Rome received, and confirmed. The second general Council holden at Constantinople, was likewise allowed and approved by Damasus, specially requested by the fathers of the same, thereto. So was the third Council holden at Ephesus ratified, and confirmed by Coelestinus, who had there, for his Vicars, or deputes, Cyrillus the famous Bishop of Alexandria, and one Arcadius a Bishop out of Italy. As for the fourth Council kept at Chalcedon, the fathers thereof also in their Epistle to Leo the Pope, subscribed with the hands of .44. Bishops, made humble request unto him, to establish, fortify, and allow, the Decrees, and ordinances of the same. This being found true, for the four first chief Councils, we need not to say any thing of the rest that followed. But for the sure proof of all this, that chiefly is to be alleged, that Constantius the Arian Emperor made so importune, and so earnest suit to Liberius the Pope, to confirm the Acts of the Council holden at Antioch by the .90. Arian Bishops, wherein Athanasius was deprived,