( 99) c: tentioufly difputing aping thole that taught the truth, " butfor Heretic confirming it by theirAuthority? Indeed I was willing, ( not ors reprefenting thePublick Perfon of " the Eaf) to write to their Leader ( Damafus ) but not about Church-matters 5 but that d might intimate that 'C they neither knew the truth of the things that are done with ue, nor did admit the way by which they might learn " them. And in general, that they /hould not infult over a the calamitous and afflicted, nor think that Pride did cc make for their dignity, when that one fin alone is enough cc to make uss hateful to God. But this Epiffle of Bafil Andr. Echo;tus the Jefuite left out ofBaf'il's Works when he publiflied them, Antw. Lat. A. D. a 6 i 6. rertul láan had made as bold with the Bifhop of Rome long be- fore, lib, de Pudic. pag. 742. againft Zepherinw : So had Cyprian and Firmilian againft Stephen : Hilary Piaay. with Liberian and the Councils, even that of Nice: But moí' notable was the sharp Conteft of the Carthage Council, of which Augujlinewas one, againft zofimr s, and Boniface and Celefline ; when the Pope falíly alledg- ed a Canon of the Nicene Council for Appeal to Rome, they denyed his claim, and evinced the forgery, and food it out againft him to the laff. I. Andhere you may fee that they took not the Pope's Power to be of God (jure divino :) For they fearched only all theArchives to findout the true Copies ofthe Ni- cene council, (Pifanrss Canons being not thenmade ; and didnot go to the scripture todecide the Cafe, nor to Tradition Apoflolical, only pleading Church-Laws and Or- r as on their fide. And that theynever dreamt of a Divine Inflitution of this Roman Papacy or Primacy, but only as the Arch- Bifhop of Canterbury in Englandbath precedency by the N 2 Ding's
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