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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 6
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§. 31. It in is this Canon notorious,1 1. That the whole General Council and so the universal Church did then believe, that the Popes or Roman Privileges were granted by the Fathers (that is, by Councils) and stood not by divine appointment. 2. That the reason that the Fathers granted them, was because it was the Imperial Seat. Had they believed that the Apostles had instituted it, they had never said that the Fathers did it for this reason; and that Constantinople should be equal or next it for the same reason. 3. The Church of Constantinople never claimed their Prerogative jure divino as succeeding any Apostle, and yet jure Imperii claimed equal Privileges. By all which it is undeniable that the whole Church in that Council, and especially the Greeks, did ever hold Rome's Primacy to be a humane institution, upon a humane mutable reason. What the Papists can say against this, I have fully answered against W. Johnson in a Book called, Which is the true Church.
§. 31. It in is this Canon notorious,1 1. That the whole General Council and so the universal Church did then believe, that the Popes or Roman Priviledges were granted by the Fathers (that is, by Councils) and stood not by divine appointment. 2. That the reason that the Fathers granted them, was because it was the Imperial Seat. Had they believed that the Apostles had instituted it, they had never said that the Fathers did it for this reason; and that Constantinople should be equal or next it for the same reason. 3. The Church of Constantinople never claimed their Prerogative jure divino as succeeding any Apostle, and yet jure Imperii claimed equal Priviledges. By all which it is undeniable that the whole Church in that Council, and especially the Greeks, did ever hold Rome's Primacy to be a humane institution, upon a humane mutable reason. What the Papists can say against this, I have fully answered against W. Iohnson in a Book called, Which is the true Church.
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