The safe religion, or, Three disputations for the reformed catholic religion against popery proving…The safe religion, or, Three disputations for the reformed catholike religion against popery proving…

Or if plainer may be (of the power as well as the name) let us hear the Council of Milevis (of which saith Prosper, Aurelius was the Captain, and Augustine the ingenium: And Baronius saith that Augustine was magna pars a great part of the Council, and by reason of his great abilities and interest) Whether there were two Milevitane Councils, as Baronius not improbably thinks, or but one, it much matters not: The Canons are now usually commixt as if they were one, and undoubtedly the true Canons, and so that which is now the 22. Canon runs thus [Item placuit ut Presbyteri, Diaconi, vel caeteriis inferiores clerici in causis quas habuerint, si de judiciis Episcoporum suorum quaesti fuerint, vicini Episcopi eos audiant, & inter eos quicquid est finiant adhibiti ab eis ex consensu Episcoporum suorum. Quod si & ab eis provocandum putaverint, non provocent nisi ad Africana concilia, vel ad Primates provinciarum suarum. Ad transmarina autem qui putaverit appellandum, a nullo intra African in communionem suscipiatur.] That is [It seemeth good that Presbyters, Deacons, and the other inferior Clergy, if in their causes they complain of the judgements of their Bishops, neighbour Bishops shall hear them, and being used by them with their Bishops consent, shall end whatever is between them. But if they think good to appeal from them, they may not appeal but to the African Councils, or to the Primates of their Provinces. But if any think to appeal to those beyond Sea, ^*let none in Afric receive him into communion.] Then it was a matter of excommunication to appeal to Rome, and consequently ⟨p. 342⟩to acknowledge their universal Government: and now it is become essential to a Church, and to a Christian to believe it.

Or if plainer may be (of the power as well as the name) let us hear the Council of Milevis (of which saith Prosper, Aurelius was the Captain, and Augustine the ingenium: And Baronius saith that Augustine was magna pars a great part of the Council, and by reason of his great abilities and interest) Whether there were two Milevitane Councils, as Baronius not improbably thinks, or but one, it much matters not: The Canons are now usually commixt as if they were one, and undoubtedly the true Canons, and so that which is now the 22. Canon runs thus [Item placuit ut Presbyteri, Diaconi, vel caeteriis inferiores clerici in causis quas habuerint, si de judiciis Episcoporum suorum quaesti fuerint, vicini Episcopi eos audiant, & inter eos quicquid est finiant adhibiti ab eis ex consensu Episcoporum suorum. Quod si & ab eis provocandum putaverint, non provocent nisi ad Africana concilia, vel ad Primates provinciarum suarum. Ad transmarina autem qui putaverit appellandum, a nullo intra African in communionem suscipiatur.] That is [It seemeth good that Presbyters, Deacons, and the other inferior Clergy, if in their causes they complain of the judgements of their Bishops, neighbor Bishops shall hear them, and being used by them with their Bishops consent, shall end whatever is between them. But if they think good to appeal from them, they may not appeal but to the Africane Councils, or to the Primates of their Provinces. But if any think to appeal to those beyond Sea,