A27045:167
The successive visibility of the church of which the Protestants are the soundest members…
The successive visibility of the church of which the Protestants are the soundest members I. defended against the opposition of Mr. William Johnson, II. proved by many arguments / by Richard Baxter ; whereunto is added 1. an account of my judgement to Mr. J. how far heretics are or are not in the church, 2. Mr. Js. explication of the most used terms, with my queries thereupon, and his answer and my reply, 3. an appendix about successive ordination, 4. letters between me and T.S., a papist, with a narrative of the success.The successive visibility of the church of which the Protestants are the soundest members I. defended against the opposition of Mr. William Johnson, II. proved by many arguments / by Richard Baxter ; whereunto is added 1. an account of my judgement to Mr. J. how far hereticks are or are not in the church, 2. Mr. Js. explication of the most used terms, with my queries thereupon, and his answer and my reply, 3. an appendix about successive ordination, 4. letters between me and T.S., a papist, with a narrative of the success.
London: printed by R.W. for Nevil Simmons, 1660
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(m)Presently after, Anno. 451. follows the Fourth General Council of Chalcedon: concerning which these particulars occur to our present purpose. First Martianus the Eastern Emperor wrote to Pope Leo, That by the Popes Authority a General Council might be gathered in what City of the Eastern Church he should please to choose. Secondly, both Anatolius Patriarch of Constantinople, and the rest of the Eastern Bishops, sent to the legates of Pope Leo, by his order, the profession of their Faith. Thirdly, the Popes Legates sate in the first place of the Council before all the Patriarchs. (n)Fourthly, they prohibited (by his order given them) That Dioscorus Patriarch of Alexandria, and chief upholder of the Eutychians, should sit in the Council; but be presented as a guilty person to be judged▪ because he had celebrated a Council ⟨p. 55⟩in the Eastern Church without the consent of the Bishop of Rome; which (said the Legates) never was done before, nor could be done lawfully. This order of Pope Leo was presently put in execution by consent of the whole Council, and Dioscorus was judged and condemned; his condemnation and deposition being pronounced by the Popes Legates, and after subscribed by the Council. Fifthly▪ the Popes Legates pronounced the Church of Rome to be *Caput omnium Ecclesiarum, the Head of all Churches, before the whole Council, and none contradicted them. Sixthly, all the Fathers assembled in that Holy Council, in their Letter to Pope Leo, acknowledged themselves to be his children, and wrote to him as to their Father. Seventhly, they humbly begged of him, that he would grant, that the Patriarch of Constantinople might ⟨p. 56⟩have the first place among the Patriarchs, after that of Rome: which notwithstanding that the Council had consented to (as had also the Third General Council of Ephesus done before) yet they esteemed their grants to be of no sufficient force, until they were confirmed by the Pope. And Leo thought not fit to yield to their petition, against the express ordination of the First Council of Nice; where Alexandria had the preeminence, as also Antioch and Jerusalem, before that of Constantinople.