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A reply to an answer made of M. Doctor Whitgifte Against the admonition to…A replye to an ansvvere made of M. Doctor VVhitgifte Against the admonition to…
A reply to an answer made of M. Doctor Whitgifte Against the admonition to the Parliament. By T.C.A replye to an ansvvere made of M. Doctor VVhitgifte Against the admonition to the Parliament. By T.C.
printed by John Stroud?, 1573
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The same decree also was made in the African council / and if you say 1that it was made against the Pope of Rome / or to forbid that any man should be called archbishop / show me where there was either bishop of Rome / or any other that ever made any such title or challenge / to be the general bishop of all / at that time / when this council of Carthage was holden: when as the first of those which did make any such challenge / was the bishop of Constantinople / which notwithstanding challenged not the preeminence first over all / but that he might ordain bishops of Asia / Pontus / Thracia / which were before appointed by their Synods / and this was in the council of Chalcedon / which was long after that council of Carthage before remembered.
The same decree also was made in the Affricane councell / and if you saye 1that it was made against the Pope of Rome / or to forbid that any man should be called archbyshop / shewe me where there was either byshop of Rome / or any other that euer made any suche title or chalenge / to be the generall byshop of all / at that time / when this councell of Carthage was holden: when as the first of those whych did make any suche chalenge / was the byshop of Constantinople / whych notwithstanding chalenged not the preheminence first ouer all / but that he might ordaine byshoppes of Asia / Pontus / Thracia / whych were before appoynted by their Sinodes / and thys was in the councell of Chalcedon / whych was long after that councell of Carthage before remembred.
- 1Concil. Tom. 2. 1. c. 6.
For to prove the lawfulness of the name of an archdeacon / the antiquity / the necessity of it / the testimonies of four are brought / which neither speak of their lawfulness / nor of their necessity / and they say not in deed so much as God save them: and two of these witnesses are Popes / whereof the first / and best / ordained that if the Metropolitan did not fetch his pall at the apostolic sea of Rome / within three months after he were consecrated / that then he should lose his dignity / as Gratian witnesseth in the decrees y he ascribeth unto Damasus.