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

§. 27. VII. Next this we have Cyprian's African Council in which (after the censuring of some that reproached a Pastor) they condemn a Dead Man called Victor, because by his Will he left one Faustinus a Presbyter the Guardian of his Sons, which the Canons had forbidden, because no Ministers of God should be called from their sacred Work to meddle with Secular things: Therefore they Decree that Victors Name shall not be mentioned among the Dead in Deprecation, nor any Oblation made for his Rest. (Non est quod pro dormitione ejus apud vos fiat oblatio, aut deprecatio aliqua nomine ejus in Ecelesiâ frequentetur.) The case of the Clergy is much altered since then; And whether the penalty had more of Piety, as to the end, or Error in the rigour, and the matter (as if it were a Punishment to the Dead, not to be offered for, or prayed for) I leave to further consideration, Cypr. li. 1. Epist. 66.

§. 27. VII. Next this we have Cyprians African Council in which (after the censuring of some that reproached a Pastor) they condemn a Dead Man called Victor, because by his Will he left one Faustinus a Presbyter the Guardian of his Sons, which the Canons had forbidden, because no Ministers of God should be called from their sacred Work to meddle with Secular things: Therefore they Decree that Victors Name shall not be mentioned among the Dead in Deprecation, nor any Oblation made for his Rest. (Non est quod pro dormitione ejus apud vos fiat oblatio, aut deprecatio aliqua nomine ejus in Ecelesiâ frequentetur.) The case of the Clergy is much altered since then; And whether the penalty had more of Piety, as to the end, or Errour in the rigor, and the matter (as if it were a Punishment to the Dead, not to be offered for, or prayed for) I leave to further consideration, Cypr. li. 1. Epist. 66.

§. 28. VIII. The next Council we meet with is Concil. Iconiense an. 258. where the Bishops of Cappadocia, Cilicia, Galatia, and other Oriental Provinces at Iconium in Phrygia, Decreed that the Baptisms of Heretics, their Ordinations, Imposition of Hands, and other sacred Actions were invalid. For which, saith Baronius an. 258. n. 14, 15, 16. Pope Stephen Excommunicated all these Oriental Bishops, and Reprobated the Council, and would not receive or hear their Legates: Of which Firmilianus Caesar. Cappad. writeth to Cyprian against him.