BELLARMINE'S LAST CASE OF APPEAL REFUTED. 331 things,' are only general words relating to the advantages which he subjoins; of which he says, " for your throne is adorned with many advantages,"9 in a florid enumeration whereof he passes over that of peculiar jurisdiction. He names the magnitude, splendour, majesty, and populousness of the city; the early faith praised by St Paul; the sepulchres of the two great apostles, and their decease there:3 but the pope's being universal sovereign and judge, which was the main advantage of which that see could be capable, he does not mention;why? because he was not aware thereof, else surely he would not have passed it in silence. 4. We may also observe, that whatever the opinion of Theodoret was now concerning the pope's power, he not long before hardly took him for such a judge, when he opposed Pope Celestine, concurring with Cyril at the first Ephesine synod. He then, indeed, looking on Pope Celestine as a prejudiced adversary, did not write to him, but to the other bishops of the west, as we see by these words in his Epistle to Dominus: "And we have written to the bishops of thewest about these things, namely, to him of Milan, to him of Aquileia, and him of Ravenna, testifying, " &c. 5. Yea, we may observe that Theodoret intended, with the em- peror's leave, to appeal or refer his cause to the whole body of western bishops, as himself expresses in these words to Anatolius: " I pray your magnificence that you would request this favour of our dread sovereign, that I may have recourse to the west, and may be judged by the most religious and holy bishops there."' Bellarmine farther alleges the appeal of Hadrianus, bishop of Thebes, to Pope Gregory I., which he received and asserted by ex- communicating the archbishop of Justiniana Prima for deposing Hadrianus without regard to that appeal.' I answer, - 1. The example is late, when the popes had extended their power beyond the ancient and due limita Those maxims had got in before the time of that worthy pope, who thought he might use the power of which he found himself possessed. r GrA rtivra yáp ipciv vreapr " &ppcórrst, &O. 2 IIoXaaïç yáp Ó Úptirspoc apóvag z00pcsrrar rAtar[zTtlizá r. 'Exu yáp ó vravá "c »póvoç 114s7,,ç rWV xera 7f7v aixouptivnv izzT.neS,v Ti]v 4y[¡coviav, llA 'o.ZT.á, xai 92-pó Tmv dxxar &rdvTav, P,- aipsrtxrç pcspcivnxs SudmSias &i.anroç, zai oúltis TAvarria gpovwv siç iztivo, szd- Arvty, AAad Tipdrovroarxñv xdpry rizvíparov Sis(pia P,t.Theod., Ep. exvi. adRenatum. Presb. 3 " That holy see has the principality over the churches in all the world for many reasons, but especially because she continued free from the taint of heresy, and none otherwiseminded ever sat in her, she having kept the apostolic state always unmixed." 4 Kai r,., .gsoprasrrdrarç Si ,4t nieStal lrroxárnç, rein MaoXrivou xa) rw AMU(A[ia., xai r `Paßivvnç r[pl rourav iypd4a1.csv, Srapcaprupcpp[vor ¿e r>ic 'Aroarvapiau Taira xarvara- paia., rerariparar.Theod., Ep. exii. '{.vrsfo).w rqv Lpc[ripav pcsyaaorpirsrav, aúrnv aiTñaat Tip xdpry rev xaXAivxav xapupñv, ávTS pct rile ivripav xe raaafsiv, as) rap 1 Tait iv win, .S,eg,xgordrorç zai &yrwrdrorç irrr- xóror., SrxdoaoAar.Theod., Ep. cxix. adAnatol. s Greg. lib. ii. Indict. 11, Ep. 6.
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy OTcyMjk=