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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 12
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
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.
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3. Either this decree was new, or old and in force before: If new, their Church foundation is new and mutable, as is said: If old, all the Popes that were otherwise chosen were no Popes.
4. And if it be but necessary for the future, all that after were otherwise chosen were no Popes.