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The apology of the Church of England, and an epistle to one Seignior Scipio…
The apology of the Church of England, and an epistle to one Seignior Scipio a Venetian gentleman, concerning the Council of Trent written both in Latin / by ... John Jewel ... ; made English by a person of quality ; to which is added, The life of the said bishop ; collected and written by the same hand.
London: printed by T. H. for Richard Chiswell, 1685
THE APOLOGY OF THE Church of ENGLAND. Written by the very Learned a… › Chapter 6
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Constantinus called the Nicene Council, Theodosius the First the Constantine ⟨p. 120⟩stantinopolitan, Theodosius the Second the Ephesian, Martianus the Chalcedonian; and when Ruffinus had alleged a Synod as making for him, his Adversary St. Jerome, that he might confute him, replied, Tell us what Emperor commanded it to be assembled. And he also in his Funeral Oration for Paula a Roman Lady, cites the Letters of the Emperors, who had commanded the Greek and Roman Bishops to meet at Rome for the holding of a Council.
Constantinus called the Nicene Council, Theodosius the First the Constantin• ⟨p. 120⟩stantinopolitan, Theodosius the Second the Ephesian, Martianus the Chalcedonian; and when Ruffinus had alledged a Synod as making for him, his Adversary St. Jerome, that he might confute him, replyed, Tell us what Emperor commanded it to be assembled. And he also in his Funeral Oration for Paula a Roman Lady, cites the Letters of the Emperors, who had commanded the Greek and Roman Bishops to meet at Rome for the holding of a Council.
11. IT is most certain that for Five hundred Years the Emperor alone took care of calling all the General Councils and Sacred Meetings, and therefore we do now the more admire the unreasonableness of the Bishop of Rome, who tho he knows that during the subsistence of the Roman Empire in its Greatness, this was the sole right of the Emperor, and that now Kings have succeeded to part of the Caesarean or Imperial Majesty, this Right is devolved to all Princes in common, yet has so unjustly usurped it to himself alone,1 and thinks it sufficient to communicate his design of holding a Council to the Greatest Prince in Christendom as to his Servant. But if the Modesty of Ferdinand the Emperor be so great, perhaps because he doth not thoroughly understand the Papal Arts, that he can digest this Injury; yet the Pope who pretends to so much Sanctity, ought not to have offered him this Affront, and thus to have arrogated to himself another Mans Right.