2 46 CnttrcJ, I4flcry cf Bilhops and .Gregory, Augurone and Proffer, ) that had written to theClergy heretofore, which they colleted into 145 Chapters and Canons. But you muff know that the exceilendyof the Canons of Provincial Coun- tils inFrance and Spain, in thelè Ages , did not fhew the excellency of the Bifhops, fo much as their Pravityand Neceflity, as the Medicine doth the Difeafè. For fuch Canons were ordinarily drawn up by the will ofthe King, by fome oneor few choice Men, ('fuchas Poulinais Aquileienfas in his time,) Saith to whom the refs confented, becaufè they knew-the King would have it fo*. Pita Lu- &yid in Bin. p. 525. Congregator Epifcopis, &c. fccit componi ordinarique lihrum Cano- nice vite norman geftantem,on quo totons il sus archon: perfeclio continetur. In quo itJeri just Gobi potufque CI omnium neceffariorrrm fmnonam. Bem lobs um per smuts Ce utates Monaftcria Canonici ordinis fui imperii onsft per manna morforum prude,tiurn. See tiffe cell ; fo that ix was the Emperor's Book, and nor th.Councirs.work. § 117. In there Chapters of.this Council, they cite Ifidore and,Hierom at Targe, proving that it was Presbyters that were called Bifhops in Paul's files, and Acts ao. and that in thofe times the Church was ruled by the Common- Council of' Presbyters, till Schifm (hewed a neceffity that one fhould rule among the reft. They cite Ifidore's words, that [Corteni Apoftoli cumPetro par consrtium honoris acceperunt ] Et [Non erre Epifcopum qui prieeffi dilexerit, non pro- defe. ] And Hierom's on Titus maintaining the ^forefaid Identity, and his [Sciat Epifiopus 6- Presbyter fibi. Populum confervum effi non fervum :1 And .his excellfent'Epiffle adNepotianum: ManySermons of Auguftine's'defèribing his Collegiate Community of theClergy. Ifidore's words, [ Plerique Sacer- dotesfua' magis.utilitatis cau:d quam"gregispreeeffi eleftderant : Nec ut profile, præfules fieri cupiunt, fed magic ut divisesfiant honorentur : fufcipiuntfab- li nitatis enliven, non pro Polio-di reginiine, fedpro totìus regiminis vel henorts ambition, atque abjetlo opere dignitatis, folam nomines appetunt dignitatem. Dummali Sacerdotes Dee ignorante nonfiant, tarnen ignorantur dDee--fed hic nefcire Dei,reprobare eft.] If Wore fay true, remember that I wrong not the Bifhops in faymg the fameof them. And if this was thecafe of the moto', as he iffirmeth, what better than we find could be -expedted from General Councils, where it is.carried by the major vote. They cite Gregory's words, [Nemo amplius nocet in Ecclefia, quam guiper- versé agens nomen vel ordinemfanclitatis habet : Delinquentem namque hune redarguere nullospraefumit,fed in exemplum culpavehementer extenditur,quan- dopro reverentia ordinis "peccator honoratur.--Melius-profehío fuerat ut hune ád mortem rub exteriori habitu:terrena alta crosftringerent., quam facra officia iaa culpaceteris imitabilem demonfirarent. Much more fuch against ungodly Bifhopsthey recite. Cap. 46. They tell us that the Canons againfi Kneeling on the Lord's days were yet in force, [.;?uoniam faint quidam in Die Dominico génu- fle6lentes, & indicbus Pentecojies;set amnia in univer/ïs lccis confonanter obfer- vintur,pla:úit fanclo Corcìlio, ftantesDamino,voma dgn;lfima perfólrieve. In
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