THE PAPACY A WORLDLY DOMINION. 16] It was, to be sure [surely], a visible headship whichSt Gregory so eagerly impugned and exclaimed against; for he could not appre- bend the bishop of Constantinople so wild as to affect a jurisdiction over the church mystical or invisible. 2. Indeed, upon this very account, the Romish pretence does not well accord with holy Scripture, because it transforms the church into another kind of body than it was constituted by God, according to the representation of it in Scripture; for there it is represented as a spiritual and heavenly society, compacted by the bands of " one faith, one hope, one spirit" of charity. John xviii. 36; Eph. iv. 4-6; 2 Cor. x. 4. But this pretence turns it into a worldly frame, united by the same bands of interest and design,managed in the same manner, by terror and allurement,supported by the same props of force, ofpolicy, of wealth, of reputation, and splendour, as all other secular corporations are. You may call it what you please; but it is evident, that in truth the papal monarchy is a temporal dominion, driving on worldly ends by worldly means, such as our Lord never meant to institute; so that the subjects thereof may, with far more reason than the people of Constantinople had, when their bishop, Nestorius, stopped some of their priests from contradicting him, say, " We have a king; a bishop we have not"' So that upon every pope we may charge that whereof Anthimus was accused, in the synod of Constantinople, under Mennas, " That he accounted the greatness and dignity ofthe priesthood to be, not a spiritual charge of souls, but as a kind of politic rule."3 This was that which, [on its] seeming to be affected by thebishop of Antioch, in encroachment upon the church of Cyprus, the fathers of the Ephesine synod endeavoured to nip, enacting a canon against all such invasions, " lest, under pretext of holy discipline, the pride of worldly authority should creep in."' And what pride of that kind could they mean beyond that which the popes now claim and exer- cise?' Now, I say, after that the papal empire has swollen to such a -bulk; whereas [indeed] so long ago, when it was but in its bud and stripling age, it was observed of it, by a very honest historian, " that 1 Caput nostrum, quod Christus est, ad hoe sua esse membra nos voluit, ut per com- pagem charitatis et fidei unum nos in se corpus efficeret.Greg. M., Ep. vii. 111. Our head, which is Christ, would therefore haveus to be his members, that, by the conjunction ofcharity and faith, he might make us to be one body." 2 Baor7.ia Ixopcev, irrio oorov oúx Ixopoev. Cone. Eph. Part., cap. xxx. a Tá rñs dpxrspacúvns pciysgo; xai dgíapsa oú aysupcaroAv `4uxmv iaroraoiav sévar xoyrod- teevoç, dXX' oióv -nW rxn dpx47v, &c.Conc. sub Men., Act. i. p. 9. 4 511 iv ispoupylae vrpooxsipaarr itouoiag xooperxñ, r4 es zapsreS'nrar.Can. Eph. i., can. 8. 6 This was that which, about the same time, the fathers of the African synod re quested P. Celestineto forbear: " necpermittere, ut fumosum mundi fastumChristi ecclesisj inducere videamur."Cone. Afr. adP. Celest. I. VOL. I. .. 11
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