I 8 o Church-Hiory of b /hops and bygzfts, orfeeking ; but with the wilt of the King, by the elation of the Clergyand e the Lay-people. Can. t r. Alto ( as the ancient Canons have decreed) let none be made Bifhop to an unwilling-People ( or without the Peoples content ) nor let the People or the Clergy be inclined to contnt; by the opprefonof perfonr inpower(which' is not lawful to befoken : ) But if it be otherwife done, let the Billy!, be for ever depofed from hrs obtained honour of Pontfcate, who is ordained rather byforce,than dY lawful decree. C. While one BJhop is living, let not any other be there made Bithop ; unlefs perhaps in his place, who is ejeîledforfome capital Crime. Can. zt. Though all Priefis, and others, muff be careful to relieve the Poor with neeeffaries,yet efjsectally every Bthop muff from the Church-bottle asfar as they can, achninifter neceffaries forfood and raymem tofuch as are in weaknefi both inhis Territories and his City, &c. Note I. Were thofe Bithopricks any ,bigger than our Parifhes of Market Towns with the Chappelleries?where t. All the Laitymet to choofe the Bithop. s.' Where the Bithop could know and relieve all the Poor. 3. And this front the dams Ecclefie, which was but one. II. Our Nonconformifts plead,that according to thefe ancient Canons, r.Thofè Bithops. are no Bithopswho came noria byany choice or content of the People or Clergy, but by power are isnpofed on the mod. unwilling. 2.. That thofe Mini- fters that were never depofed for any Crime, are not to be forfaken by their Flocks, nor impofed perfonsthruft into their places, accepted by thePeople,while the firft hash true right; 4 s 3. CLXXIII. We come now to that which they will needs call the fifth GeneralCouncil atConflantinople, An. SS3. of i65- Bifhops. Inwhich let thefe particulars be noted. i. That 7uftinian's Letters or Formula were firft read,in which he exprefly affirmeth , that it was the Emperors that called the former General Councils, and he that called this. 2.. That he lamenteth the divifions which former Councils had left unhealed :" laying, [ The followers of Neftorius and Eutyehesmade fo great trouble in the holyChurches of God, that divifions and khifms were made in them, and the Churches had noCommunion with one another: For noman that travelledfrom one City to another, didprefume to communicate i nor any Clerk that went tram one City to another, togo into the Church.] Here was lamentablefeparation indeed. 3. That °ufiínian was made believe, that thefe divifions would behealed, if the tria Ca itísla of the Council of Calcedon were but condemned For the Eutychiáns . didpfo much- boaft of Cyril, being confident that theydid but followhim, andhis firtt Ephefian Council, that if he were vin- dicated,he thought they would be fatisfied. 44 And he thought that the three Bifbops were indeed fo far to be condemned, having difgraced Cyril,'' and favor- ed Neflorisrs, and the other was Nef1oritrs s Mälter. S. That the receiving and the curling of the Council of Calcedon, having hitherto been the-great Conteft among theBithops,,fome were loth now to cafe fogreat a difhonour upon it, and to give theEistychians fo-much caufe to boaft r fuppofing they would but-be the more confirmed in their oppofition. CÇ tq..- Note altò, that Vigilias Bifhop of Rome was then at Conftantinaple, bur camenot tò theCouncil, nor : Cent any.Legate to it But the Emperor tells . the Coun-
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