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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 8
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§ 52. The 22d is a hard Canon that Bishops and Priests, ordained with money, and not by examination and election, be deposed, and they that ordained them.
§ 53. The 36th Canon displeaseth them also, which confess the Church of Constantinople's Privileges as equal with Rome.
§ 53. The 36th Canon displeaseth them also, which confess the Church of Constantinople's Priviledges as equal with Rome.
§ 54. The 38th Canon containeth one great cause of the old Confusions, viz. That whatever alteration the Imperial Power makes on any City, the Ecclesiastical Order also follow it. Did God make this Law? Are not as many Souls in a Town that's no City as capable of being a Church as Citizens? It is in the Princes power to make and unmake Cities: May he accordingly make or unmake Churches? What if a King will have but one City in his Kingdom, must there be no more Churches or Bishops? What if there be no Cities (as in many American and Arabian Countries) must there be no Churches? What if the King will disfranchise most of the Cities, and another will make every Market Town a City; must Churches be altered accordingly? If so, O that our King would make us so many Cities, as the work and the souls of Men need true Bishops, that one might not have a thousand Parishes without any subordinate Bishop!. But if this hold, the Emperor might have taken down Rome, and set up Constantinople, or any other at pleasure.
§ 54. The 38th Canon containeth one great cause of the old Confusions, viz. That whatever alteration the Imperial Power makes on any City, the Ecclesiastical Order also follow it. Did God make this Law? Are not as many Souls in a Town that's no City as capable of being a Church as Citizens? It is in the Princes power to make and unmake Cities: May he accordingly make or unmake Churches? What if a King will have but one City in his Kingdom, must there be no more Churches or Bishops? What if there be no Cities (as in many American and Arabian Countries) must there be no Churches? What if the King will disfranchize most of the Cities, and another will make every Market Town a City; must Churches be altered accordingly? If so, O that our King would make us so many Cities, as the work and the souls of Men need true Bishops, that one might not have a thousand Parishes without any subordinate Bishop!. But if this hold, the Emperor might have taken down Rome, and set up Constantinople, or any other at pleasure.