1. Conclus. The people have Gods right to choose, for so the bword prescribeth. So cTertullian, dEyprian. Non blandiatur sibi plebs, quasi immunis à contagione delicti esse possit, cum sacerdote peccatore communicans & ad injustum ⟨p. 202⟩atque illicitum propositi Episcopatum consensum s•um accommodans, &c. and dnefas sine consensu po•uli: and this Cyprian writ an hundred years before the Nicene Council. Bellarmine lo•ed hi• face eto say this custom began in the time of the Nicene Council. It was not a consuetude fQu•d ipsum (inquit Cyprianus) videmus de Divina autoritate descender•; gIgnatius, It is your part, as the Church of God to choose the Pastor; [Greek or Hebrew]. So speaketh he to the people of Philadelphia; and so speaketh hAmbrose to Valentinian, Omitto, quia jam ipse populus judicavit, iOrigen: Requiritur ergo in ordinando sacerd te praesentia populi, &c. and his reason is Scripture, a pastor must be of good report. And kChrysostom saith, all elections of pastors are null, [Greek or Hebrew], without the conscience of the people. And the Council of Nice did write this to the Bishops of Alexandria as lTheodoret saith, and the fi•st general council of Constantinople wrote the same to Daemasus, Ambrose, and others, as mTheodoret also showeth nThe council of Africa is cited by Cyprian producing Scripture, as Acts 1. 23. Acts 6. to prove that the people had their consent in elections; and othe council of Chalcedon pthe council of Ancyron, and qof Laodicea; and the Popes own rCanons say this, sso Nicolaus the Pope in his Decrees saith, the Clergy and people did choose the pope, Reliquus clerus & populus Romanus ad consensum nova electionis pontificis à Cardinalibus factae accedant. So tGelasius the pope writeth to Philippus and Cernuti•• Bishops, so Stephanus ad Romanum uarchiepiscopum Rav•• natensem, is cited in the gloss to that purpose; in xthe Epistles of Ivo Bishop of Chartres, we being called, by the will of God, the Clergy and people of such a City, and this Pope Ur••• practised upon Ivo.
1. Conclus. The people have Gods right to chuse, for so the bword prescribeth. So cTertullian, dEyprian. Non blandiatur sibi plebs, quasi immunis à contagione delicti esse possit, cum sacerdote peccatore communicans & ad injustum ⟨p. 202⟩atque illicitum propositi Episcopatum consensum s•um accommodans, &c. and dnefas sine consensu po•uli: and this Cyprian writ an hundreth yeeres before the Nicen Councell. Bellarmine lo•ed hi• face eto say this custome began in the time of the Nicon Councell. It was not a consuetude fQu•d ipsum (inquit Cyprianus) videmus de Divina autoritate descender•; gIgnatius, It is your part, as the Church of God to chuse the Pastor; 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. So speaketh hee to the people of Philadelphia; and so speaketh hAmbrose to Valentinian, Omitto, quia jam ipse populus judicavit, iOrigen: Requiritur ergo in ordinando sacerd te praesentia populi, &c. and his reason is Scripture, a pastor must be of good report. And kChrysostome saith, all elections of pastors are null, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, without the conscience of the people. And the Councell of Nice did write this to the Bishops of Alexandria as
- bActs 15. 22. 1 Cor. 16. 3. 1 Cor. 8. 19. Acts 6. 6. Acts 14. 23.
- cTertul. apol. 39.
- dCyprian. l. 1. epist. 4. ad soeli. presbyterum.
- dCyprian cp. 9 c. 2. l. 2 ep. 5.
- eBellarmine.
- fCyprian ep. 17
- gIgnatius ep, ad Philadelph.
- hAmbros. •p 32. quae est ad Valentin.
- iOrigen H•m. 6. ad c. 8. Levit.
- kChrysost. de sacerdot. l. 3.
- lTheodoret bist. l. 1. c. 9.
- mTheodoret. bist. l. 5. c. 9.
- nConcil. Africanum.
- oCon. Chalcedon. 1. 6.
- pConcil. Ancyr. c. 18.
- qConc. Laodic. can. 5. & can. 13
- rGratian. ex constis. 63 glossa ad regul. 29.
- sNicolaus papa c. in nomine d. 23.
- tGelasius pap. ad Phil. & Ser. epist. dist. 62.
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