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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 3
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§. 14. Note that, 1. the Council of Nice nameth none Patriarchs. 2.1 They nullify the Ordination of scandalous and uncapable men. Can. 9. and 10. Which will justify Pope Nicholas forbidding any to take the Mass of a Fornicating Priest. 3. That Rural Bishops were then in use, ⟨p. 53⟩and allowed by the Council, Can. 8. 4. That no Bishop was to remove from one Church to another, Can. 15. (which Euseb. Nicom. soon broke.) 5. Even in the Arabic Canons the 4th. si populo placebit, is a Condition of every Bishops Election. 6. The 5th Arab. Canon, in case of discord among the people, who shall be their Bishop or Priest, it is referred to the people to consider which is most blameless: And no Bishop or Priest must be taken into another's place, if the former was blameless. (So that if Pastors be wrongfully cast out, the people must not forsake them, nor receive the obtruded.) 7. Those Ordained by Meletius were to be received into the Ministry where others dyed, If by the suffrage of the people they were judged fit, and the Bishop of Alex. designed them. Sozom. l. 1. c. 23.
§. 14. Note that, 1. the Council of Nice nameth none Patriarchs. 2.1 They nullifie the Ordination of scandalous and uncapable men. Can. 9. and 10. Which will justifie Pope Nicholas forbidding any to take the Mass of a Fornicating Priest. 3. That Rural Bishops were then in use, ⟨p. 53⟩and allowed by the Council, Can. 8. 4. That no Bishop was to remove from one Church to another, Can. 15. (which Euseb. Nicom. soon broke.) 5. Even in the Arabick Canons the 4th. si populo placebit, is a Condition of every Bishops Election. 6. The 5th Arab. Canon, in case of discord among the people, who shall be their Bishop or Priest, it is referred to the people to consider which is most blameless: And no Bishop or Priest must be taken into anothers place, if the former was blameless. (So that if Pastors be wrongfully cast out, the people must not forsake them, nor receive the obtruded.) 7. Those Ordained by Meletius were to be received into the Ministry where others dyed, If by the suffrage of the people they were judged fit, and the Bishop of Alex. designed them. Sozom. l. 1. c. 23.