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

§ 22. In this Council, saith Platina, the Pope made a decree very profitable to the Church of Rome. Bin. saith these were the words (translated) [p. 1666. First, God being the Inspector it is decreed that the election of the Roman Bishop be in the power of the Cardinal Bishops: so that if any one be enthroned in the Apostolic seat, without the foregoing concordant and Canonical election of them, and after the consent of the following religious Orders, Clerks and Laity,^(*) he be not accounted Apostolical but Apostatical.]

§ 22. In this Council, saith Platina, the Pope made a decree very profitable to the Church of Rome. Bin. saith these were the words (translated) [p. 1666. First, God being the Inspector it is decreed that the election of the Roman Bishop be in the power of the Cardinal Bishops: so that if any one be inthroned in the Apostolick seat, without the foregoing concordant and Canonical election of them, and after the consent of the following religious Orders, Clerks and Laity,^(*) he be not accounted Apostolical but Apostatical.]

1. (*)But others say, the Emperor's consent also was put in.

Here it is much to be noted, 1. That this is a new foundation of the Papacy (by Hildebrand's Council) without which it was falling to utter confusion. How then doth the Roman sect cry down Innovation and ⟨p. 349⟩boast of Antiquity? 2. Either the Bishop of Rome is to be chosen as the Bishop of that particular Church, and then the members of that particular Church should choose him,¹ or else as the Bishop of the universal Church (pretendedly) and then the universal Church should choose him. But the Cardinal Bishops of other particular Churches are neither the particular Roman Church, nor the universal, nor their delegates: and so have no just pretence of power.