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Church-history of the government of bishops and their councils abbreviated including the chief part…
Church-history of the government of bishops and their councils abbreviated including the chief part of the government of Christian princes and popes, and a true account of the most troubling controversies and heresies till the Reformation ... / by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed by B. Griffin for Thomas Simmons, 1680
Church-History OF BISHOPS And their COUNCILS ABRIDGED, &c. › Chapter 11
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In his 4th. Epistle he laments that in Africa there was 205. Bishops at a Council, now there were scarce five in all; and he showeth that all Bishops were of one order, but differenced as the Cities were for primacy, by the Civil Laws or the Fathers reverence. That where the Pagans Arch-Flamens were, there were instituted Arch-Bishops to be over the Provinces; where a Metropolis was, Metropolitans ⟨p. 344⟩or Arch-Bishops were placed; and Bishops in lesser Cities where had been Flamens and Counts. But in Africa they were diversified only by the times of their ordination; the Bishop of Carthage being the chief.]
In his 4th. Epistle he laments that in Africa there was 205. Bishops at a Council, now there were scarce five in all; and he sheweth that all Bishops were of one order, but differenced as the Cities were for primacie, by the Civil Laws or the Fathers reverence. That where the Pagans Arch-Flamins were, there were instituted Arch-Bishops to be over the Provinces; where a Metropolis was, Metropolitans ⟨p. 344⟩or Arch-Bishops were placed; and Bishops in lesser Cities where had been Flamins and Counts. But in Africa they were diver••fyed only by the times of their ordination; the Bishop of Carthage being the chief.]
In his Epistle 5. he hath a good confession of faith, where among other things he well saith, [That God predestinated only things good, but foreknew both good and evil; and that Grace so preventeth and followeth man, that yet mans free will is not to be denied: that the Soul is not part of God, but created of nothing. He anathematizeth every Heresy, and every one that receiveth or venerateth any Scriptures but what are received by the Catholic Church, &c.
In his Epistle 5. he hath a good confession of faith, where among other things he well saith, [That God predestinated only things good, but soreknew both good and evil; and that Grace so preventeth and followeth man, that yet mans free will is not to be denied: that the Soul is not part of God, but created of nothing. He anathematizeth every Heresie, and every one that receiveth or venerateth any Scriptures but what are received by the Catholick Church, &c.