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Diocesan churches not yet discovered in the primitive times
Diocesan churches not yet discovered in the primitive times, or, A defence of the answer to Dr. Stillingfleets allegations out of antiquity for such churches against the exceptions offered in the preface to a late treatise called A vindication of the primitive church, where what is further produced out of Scripture and ancient authors for diocesan churches is also discussed.Diocesan churches not yet discovered in the primitive times, or, A defence of the answer to Dr. Stillingfleets allegations out of antiquity for such churches against the exceptions offered in the preface to a late treatise called A vindication of the primitive church, where what is further produced out of Scripture and antient authors for diocesan churches is also discussed.
London: printed for Thomas Parkhurst, 1682
Diocesan Churches not yet discovered in the Primitive times.
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I see no reason why this should be restrained to that particular case, the occasion of what the Bishops affirm may clear it, and that was Austin's scruple, not to succeed Valerius, but to be made Bishop of Hippo, while his Bishop there was living, Episcopatum suscipere, suo vivente Episcopo, recusabat, for so there would be two together, which he took to be against the Custom of the Church, contra morem Ecclesiae; but they all persuade him that this was usually done, id fieri solere, and prove it by examples in all partsq. And Valerius his desire and proposal was, that Austin might be ordained Bishop of Hippo, Qui suae Cathedrae non tam succederet sed Consacerdos accederet, not as one that was to succeed him only, but to be Bishop together with him.
I see no reason why this should be restrained to that particular case, the occasion of what the Bishops affirm may clear it, and that was Austin's scruple, not to succeed Valerius, but to be made Bishop of Hippo, while his Bishop there was living, Episcopatum suscipere, suo vivente Episcopo, recusabat, for so there would be two together, which he took to be against the Custom of the Church, contra morem Ecclesiae; but they all perswade him that this was usually done, id fieri solere, and prove it by examples in all partsq. And Valerius his desire and proposal was, that Austin might be ordained Bishop of Hippo, Qui suae Cathedrae non tam succederet sed Consacerdos accederet, not as one that was to succeed him only, but to be Bishop together with him.
- qPossidon. vita August. cap. 8.
When he assigns this as the reason of appointing a Successor, to prevent the mischiefs that are usually produced by popular elections, he speaks his own sense, not theirs; for they were better advised than to brand the general practice of the ancient Church as mischievous, and how this suggestion becomes one, who undertakes to write a vindication of the Primitive Church, let himself consider. Others may judge it, a more intolerable reflection upon the universal Church in the best and after times, than any M. B. can be justly charged with. However the reason assigned for it by Possidonius is another thing than appears in this Authors whole account, it was because Valerius feared left some other