A33360:330
A discourse concerning liturgies
A discourse concerning liturgies by ... David Clarkson.
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1689
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The chiefest of them made bold to leap over the just bounds of their Place and Office, [Greek or Hebrew], to secular domination, as Socrates tells us, Hist. lib. 7. c. 7. &c. 11. And as there is his Testimony for those of Rome and Alexandria, so have we the Fear of the Fathers at Ephesus for others, [Greek or Hebrew], lest under the pretence of a sacred Function, the pride (haughtiness) of secular power should creep in, Can. in Cod. 178. Also the observation of the Council of Chalcedon, ⟨p. 189⟩[Greek or Hebrew], Can. 12. that some, against the Ecclesiastical Rules, did affect domination.
The chiefest of them made bold to leap over the just bounds of their Place and Office, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, to secular domination, as Socrates tells us, Hist. lib. 7. c. 7. &c. 11. And as there is his Testimony for those of Rome and Alexandria, so have we the Fear of the Fathers at Ephesus for others, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, lest under the pretence of a sacred Function, the pride (haughtiness) of secular power should creep in, Can. in Cod. 178. Also the observation of the Council of Chalcedon, ⟨p. 189⟩〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Can. 12. that some, against the Ecclesiastical Rules, did affect domination.
lThe Bishops of Rome affected it with a witness, asserting and contending for a Supremacy over all other Churches; and were so impotently zealous for it, as they attempted to get it acknowledged by a gross forgery used by Zosimus, Boniface and Celestine, to a2 Council in Africa; by Leo also in his Letters to Theodosius the Emperor; and by his Legate to the Council of Chalcedon,