tl?etr Comcils abridged: 357 í 6. That no Synod without his command, <may be called Uni- " verfal. 17. "That no Chapter, nor no Book may be accounted Canonical awithout his authority. 18. That his fentence may be retraced by none : and he alone may " retract all mens. 19. " That he ought tobe judged of no man,.:, 2,0. "Thatno man muft dare to condemn any one that appealeth to theApoftoliek Seat. 21, " That the Greater ,cauíes of all Churches mutt bereferred to . Whim. 22. " That the Roman Church *never erred, nor, as the Scripture " witneffeth, will ever err. 23. "That the Bithop ofRome,, if he be Canonically ordained, is un- doubtedly made'Holy by the merits of St. Peter, as St.. Ennodius Bi- " shop ofPapia witneffeth, and many holy Fathers confefs, yas is eon «tamed in the Decrees ofPope Symmachus. 24. "That it is lawful for fub)e is to accufe by his Command and " licence. 25. " That hearray depofe and reconcile Bishops without Synodal mee- " tings. 26. "That he is not to be accounted a Catholick.who agreeth not as with the. Roman Church. 27. "That he may abfolve the Subjects of unjuft men from fiele- " lity. Thefe areput by Bin: amông Gregory's Epiftles, p. 1196. as the Popp Dictates. If I had not tranflated them from filch an unqueftioned Au- thor that followeth Baronius, force would-have thought they had been but the forgeries of fume Proteftant accufer,and that thePopes have no fuck tenents. What one is here that, is not falfe ? and howmany ofthem are horridly: arrogant ? The reading of them would tempt á doubting man to thank that the Pope-is the Eldeft Son-of the Prince of Pride, exal- ting himfelfabove all that is called God,and arrogating Chrift's preroga- tives,and therefore Antichrift:If any..would knowwhat Popery is;A. great part of the defcription is here given you by their greatest Pope himfelf, and by their chief Hi Storians. § 43. Much of his4th Book of Epiftres is to require PancesPrelcom, and People toforfake the Emperor and choofe another, x municate all that will communicate with him: yet in his lth. Epift. he reciteth himfelf, how lamentably with tears, three dayes in. the froft barefoot,he begged for pardon,and howthe compafìionate Peo- ple thought the Pope hard hearted and tyrannical for not yielding; and that at laft twoLadyes and an ,Abbot overcame him to abfolvehim. 4 46. Lib. 4. Epift. 28. He tells the Spaniards alfo that. their King- dom was St. Peter's property :, But why did he trouble himfelf to claim, lay
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