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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 4
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§. 31. LXXXIX. Another Carthage Council called the second, which Binnius saith, was the last, is placed next; which decreed several Church Orders, some of which show, that a Bishops Diocese had then but unum altar;1 As when reconciliation of Penitents, (as well as Chrism, and Consecrating Virgins) was to be done by the Bishop only, except in great necessity. And when Christians were multiplied, they that desired a Bishop in a place, that had none before, might have one. And the prohibition erigendi aliud altar, &c. was repeated.
§. 31. LXXXIX. Another Carthage Council called the second, which Binnius saith, was the last, is placed next; which decreed several Church Orders, some of which shew, that a Bishops Diocess had then but unum altare;1 As when reconciliation of Penitents, (as well as Chrisme, and Consecrating Virgins) was to be done by the Bishop only, except in great necessity. And when Christians were multiplyed, they that desired a Bishop in a place, that had none before, might have one. And the prohibition erigendi aliud altare, &c. was repeated.
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§. 32. XC. Another Carthage Council called the third, hath many good Orders: One is Can. 26. That the Bishop of the first Seat, shall not be called the Chief Priest (or Bishop) or any such thing, but only the Bishop of the first Seat. To avoid all ambitious designs of superiority: Whence Binnius elsewhere noteth, that Carthage had not an Archbishop. No doubt they had a sense of the sin and misery, that came by the Patriarchal and other ambitious strifes.
§. 32. XC. Another Carthage Council called the third, hath many good Orders: One is Can. 26. That the Bishop of the first Seat, shall not be called the Chief Priest (or Bishop) or any such thing, but only the Bishop of the first Seat. To avoid all ambitious designs of superiority: Whence Binnius elsewhere noteth, that Carthage had not an Archbishop. No doubt they had a sense of the sin and misery, that came by the Patriarchall and other ambitious strifes.