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A. The greatest part of the Church on Earth by far, was long in the Roman Empire, and when Emperors turned Christians they gave the Churches Power for the Honour of Christianity, to form the Churches much like the Civil State: And so a General Council of all the Churches in that Empire was their Supreme Church Power. And three Patriarchs first, and five after were in their several Provinces, over all the rest of the Archbishops and Bishops. And so the Orthodox Party at First were called, The Catholics, because they were the greater Concordant part: But quickly the Arians became far greater, and carried it in Councils, and then they called themselves, The Catholics: After that the Orthodox under wiser Emperors got up again, and then they were the greater part called Catholics: Then the Nestorians a little while, and the Eutychians after, and the Monothelites after them, got the Major Vote in Councils, and called themselves the Catholic Church: And so since then, they that had the greatest countenance from Princes, and the greatest number of Bishops in Councils, claimed the Name of the Catholic Church: And the Pope that was the first Patriarch in the Empire first called himself the Head of the Catholic Church in that Empire; and when the Empire was broke, extended his claim to the whole Christian World, partly by the abuse of the word [Catholic Church] and partly by abuse of the Name [General Councils;] falsely pretending to Men that what was called [Catholic and General] as to the Empire, had been so called as to all the World: And thus His Church was called Catholic.

A. The greatest part of the Church on Earth by far, was long in the Roman Empire, and when Emperors turned Christians they gave the Churches Power for the Honour of Christianity, to form the Churches much like the Civil State: And so a General Council of all the Churches in that Empire was their Supream Church Power. And three Patriarchs first, and five after were in their several Provinces, over all the rest of the Archbishops and Bishops. And so the Orthodox Party at First were called, The Catholicks, because they were the greater Concordant part: But quickly the Arrians became far greater, and carryed it in Councils, and then they called themselves, The Catholicks: After that the Orthodox under wiser Emperors got up again, and then they were the greater part called Catholicks: Then the Nostorians a little while, and the Eutychians after, and the Monothelites after them, got the Major Vote in Councils, and called themselves the Catholick Church: And so since then, they that had the greatest countenance from Princes, and the greatest number of Bishops in Councils, claimed the Name of the Catholick Church: And the Pope that was the first Patriarch in the Empire first called himself the Head of the Catholick Church in that Empire; and when the Empire was broke, extended his claim to the whole Christian World, partly by the abuse of the word [Catholick Church] and partly by abuse of the Name [General Councils;] falsly pretending to Men that what was called [Catholick and General] as to the Empire, had been so called as to all the World: And thus His Church was called Catholick.