Church-history of the government of bishops and their councils abbreviated including the chief part…

§ 114. But how militant a defender of the Roman grandeur this Leo was, may be seen in his Epistles in Bin. p. 1096. &c. In the first long one to the Patriarch of Constantinople and another Greek Bishop, he reproveth them for bold damning of the Church of Rome, and tells them that they were members of Antichrist, and forerunners of him that is King over all the Children of pride; and saith, who can tell how many Antichrists had have been already? He tells them how many heretic Bishops they have had at Const. and of above ninety heresies in the East; and how by force they raged against the Jo•nnites (the Nonconformists that followed St. Chrysostom;) ¹what a heretic their Bishop Eutychius was, that said, the body at resurrection will be impalpable, and more subtle than the wind and air (He believed Paul that said it should be a spiritual body (though not a Spirit.)² And how his Books were burned. He reprehendeth their title of Ecumenical Patriarch; and saith that no Roman Bishop to that day had ever accepted or used that Title (^*) Yet he reciteth the forged grant of Constantine, saying, that as far as Kings are above Judges, so all the world must take the Pope for their Head; and that he gave the Palace and all Rome, &c. to Sylvester, and said it was unmeet that they should be subject to any earthly. Prince that were by God made Governors of Heaven. At large he thus pleadeth for the Roman Kingdom of Priests, c••ding them that had put down all the Latin Churches and monasteries in the East.] (yet Baron. and Bin. tell you all the Church on earth obeyed the Pope.)

§ 114. But how militant a defender of the Roman grandure this Leo was, may be seen in his Epistles in Bin. p. 1096. &c. In the first long one to the Patriarch of Constantinople and another Greek Bishop, he reproveth them for bold damning of the Church of Rome, and tells them that they were members of Antichrist, and forerunners of him that is King over all the Children of pride; and saith, who can tell how many Antichrists had have been already? He tells them how many heretick Bishops they have had at Const. and of above ninety heresies in the East; and how by force they raged against the Ionnites (the Nonconformists that followed St. Chrysostome;)