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2. Or when ever the time was, yet we enquire, whether these other Sees as of Jerusalem, Antioch, Alexandria, or some of them were not Patriarchal as soon as Rome? and whether Councils that speak of priority or posteriority, do not in the same manner, and on the same grounds, and to the same ends give Alexandria, and Antioch, their places, as they give to Rome the first place? Surely we find them speaking of them as matters of the same Order and nature, saying, Rome shall have the first place or seat, Constantinople the second, Alexandria the third, Antioch the fourth, and Jerusalem the fifth. 4. And therefore we enquire whether all these have not the same kind of right to their preeminence, whether it be Divine or Humane. And that the very foundation ⟨p. 82⟩of this Patriarchal order, yea of Romes Patriarchal Primacy, (which was the preparative to its universal Sovereignty) was not a mere humane invention, given on occasion of the Imperial seat at Rome, and not any institution of Christ to Peter and his Successors, I desire you not to take from my word; but all that will not be fooled out of all Historical verity by Popish audacity, let them take it from the express words of the fourth great approved General Council, viz. of Calcedon, which the poor Jacobites and other Churches of the East and South are so reproached for rejecting. In Act. 16. Binnii pag. 134. these are their words [Definitions Sanctorum Patrum sequentes ubique & Regulam, & quae nunc relecta sunt 150. Deo amantissimorum Episcoporum, qui congregati sunt sub piae memoriae Imperatore major Theodosio in Regia civitate Constantinop. Nova Roma, cognoscentes & nos eadem definivimus de privilegiis ejusdem Sanctissimae Constantinop. Ecclesiae novae Romae. Etenim sedi Senioris Romae, propter Imperium civitatis illius (N. B.) patres consequenter privilegia reddiderunt. Et eadem intentione permoti 150. Deo amantissimi Episcopi aequa sanctissimae sedi novae Romae privilegia tribuerunt, rationabiliter judicantes Imperio & Senatu Urbem ornatam aequis Senioris Regiae Romae privilegiis frui.] i. e.

2. Or when ever the time was, yet we enquire, whether these other Sees as of Jerusalem, Antioch, Alexandria, or some of them were not Patriarchal as soon as Rome? and whether Councils that speak of priority or posteriority, do not in the same manner, and on the same grounds, and to the same ends give Alexandria, and Antioch, their places, as they give to Rome the first place? Surely we find them speaking of them as matters of the same Order and nature, saying, Rome shall have the first place or seat, Constantinople the second, Alexandria the third, Antioch the fourth, and Jerusalem the fifth. 4. And therefore we enquire whether all these have not the same kind of right to their preheminence, whether it be Divine or Humane. And that the very foundation