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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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3. Your next instance is of Pope Leo's restoring Theodoret, upon an appeal to just judgement] Reply. 1. Every Bishop hath a power to discern who is fit for his own Communion; and so Leo and the Bishops of the West perceiving Theodoret to be Orthodox, received him as a Catholic into their Communion; and so might the Bishop of Constantinople have done. But when this was done, the Council did not hereupon receive him, and restore him to his Bishopric, no nor would hear him read the passages between Pope Leo and him, no nor make a Confession of his faith, but cried out against him as a Nestorian, till he had expressly Anathematized Nestorius and Eutiches before the Council, and then they ⟨p. 133⟩received and restored him: so that the final judgement was not by Leo, but by the Council: But if in his distress he appealed as you say, to a just judgement, from an unjust, or sought to make Leo his friend, no wonder; but this is no grant of an Universal Sovereignty in Leo: and if it had granted it in the Empire, that's nothing to the Churches in other Empires: Or if he had granted it as to all the world, he was but one man of the world, and not the Catholic Church. The Council expressly take on them the determination after Leo, and they slight the Legates of the Pope, and pronounce him a creature of the Fathers, and give Constantinople equal privileges, though his Legates refuse to consent. But of the frivolousness of this your instance, see Dr. Field of the Church, lib. 5. cap. 35. pag. 537, 538. and more fully Blondell de primatu, ubi sup. cap. 25. sect. 63, 65.
3. Your next instance is of Pope Leo's restoring Theodoret, upon an appeal to just judgement] Reply. 1. Every Bishop hath a power to discern who is fit for his own Communion; and so Leo and the Bishops of the West perceiving Theodoret to be Orthodox, received him as a Catholick into their Communion; and so might the Bishop of Constantinople have done. But when this was done, the Council did not hereupon receive him, and restore him to his Bishoprick, no nor would hear him read the passages between Pope Leo and him, no nor make a Confession of his faith, but cried out against him as a Nestorian, till he had expresly Anathematized Nestorius and Eutiches before the Council, and then they ⟨p. 133⟩received and restored him: so that the finall judgement was not by Leo, but by the Council: But if in his distresse he appealed as you say, to a just judgement, from an unjust, or sought to make Leo his friend, no wonder; but this is no grant of an Universall Soveraignty in Leo: and if it had granted it in the Empire, thats nothing to the Churches in other Empires: Or if he had granted it as to all the world, he was but one man of the world, and not the Catholick Church. The Council expresly take on them the determination after Leo, and they slight the Legates of the Pope, and pronounce him a creature of the Fathers, and give Constantinople equall priviledges, though his Legates refuse to consent. But of the frivolousnesse of this your instance, see Dr. Field of the Church, lib. 5. cap. 35. pag. 537, 538. and more fully Blondell de primatu, ubi sup. cap. 25. sect. 63, 65.