A vindication of the Animadversions on Fiat lux

About the year 608. presently after the Saxons had received Christianity, and therewithal contributed their power, some of them at least to the furtherance of your Papal claim, which was then set on foot, though in a much inferior degree unto what you have since promoted it unto, it was publicly excepted against and disclaimed by a Convention or Synod of the British Clergy, who denied that they owed any subjection unto the See of Rome, or any respect, but such as Christians ought to bear one towards another, and would not give place unto its Authority in things of very small weight and moment. Bed. Hist. lib. 2. cap. 2. Concil. Anglic. p. 188. The sixth general Council that condemned Pope Honorius for an Heretic, An. 681. with the Second Nicene, An. 787. which confirmed the same sentence, do shrewdly impeach your present supremacy. In the fourth Council of Constantinople, An. 870. the Epanagnosticum of Basilius the Emperor to the Synod approved by them all, begins thus: Cum Divina & benignissima Providentia nobis guberncula universalis navis commisit, omne studium arripuimus, & ante publicas curas, ecclesiasticas contentions dissolvendi: whereas the gracious Divine Providence has committed unto us, the Government of the Universal ship, we have taken all occasion before ⟨p. 439⟩other public cares to dissolve or compose Ecclesiastical Dissensions. How suitable these expressions of the Emperor are unto your present pretensions, your self may judge. And having mentioned that Synod which you call the eighth general Council, because of its opposition to the learned Photius, I shall only ask of you, whither you think there was no exception made to your supremacy by that Photius, with the Emperors and Bishops of the East, who consulted with him, and afterwards justified him against the Censures, procured against him by Pope Nicholas and Hadrian? do not all your writers to this day complain of this opposition made unto you by Photius? What think you of the Council of Frankford assembled by Charles the Great, which so openly condemned that Doctrine which Pope Hadrian and the Roman Clergy with him laboured so earnestly to promote, as we shall afterwards show? In the same order you may place the Councils that deposed their Popes, as did one at Rome under Otho the Emperor, John the 12. a sweet Bishop, An. 963. another at Sutrinum An. 1046.

About the year 608. presently after the Saxons had received Christianity, and therewithall contributed their power, some of them at least to the furtherance of your Papal claim, which was then set on foot, though in a much inferiour degree unto what you have since promoted it unto, it was publickly excepted against and disclaimed by a Convention or Synod of the Brittish Clergy, who denyed that they owed any subjection unto the See of Rome, or any respect, but such as Christians ought to bear one towards another, and would not give place unto its Authority in things of very small weight and moment. Bed. Hist. lib. 2. cap. 2. Concil. Anglic. p. 188. The sixth general Council that condemned Pope Honorius for an Heretick, An. 681. with the Second Nicene, An. 787. which confirmed the same sentence, do shrewdly impeach your present supremacy. In the fourth Council of Constantinople, An. 870. the Epanagnosticum of Basilius the Emperour to the Synod approved by them all, begins thus: Cum Divina & benignissima Providentia nobis guberncula universalis navis commisit, omne studium arripuimus, & ante publicas curas, ecclesiasticas contentiones dissolvendi: whereas the gratious Divine Providence has committed unto us, the Government of the Vniversal ship, we have taken all occasion before