( ) Rome.] And though when he was made Pope, Intereft caufed him to revoke his judgment of the Councils being . above the Pope, he never revoked fuch hiftorical narra- tives. Their great Learned Mathematical ( yet militant) Car- dinal Cufitiocs li. de Concord. Cathol. c. 13. &c. faith [that the Papacie is but of Po f tive right, and that Priefls are jure Divino equal, and that it is fubjeciional Confent which giveth the Pope and Bifhops their Majority, and that the diiliniion ofDiocefes, and that a Bifhop be over Presbyters are of Pot Live Right, and that Christ gave no more to Peter than the refl. ; and that if the congregate Church fhould chufe the Bithop of Trentfor their Prefident andHead, he (hould be more properly Peter's succeffor than the Bithop of Rome.) Objeä. Oh but this Book is difallorred by the Pope.. Anjw. Nowonder : So is all that is againfl him. The Exceptions which we grant are thefe. 1. There were tome Cities of the Empire that were near to other Nations, where the Princes being Heathens, Chriflians wereunderlings and few : And theBithops of thefe Ci- ties extended their care to as many of the Neighbour Countries as would voluntarily fubmit to them : So the Bifhop of Yonys was Bifhop of many Scythian', and fo fume that were on theBorders of Perfia, had many Per Fans, andwere at Nice. 2. There were fame Countries that were fometime under the Roman Power, and fometime under the Perfian, or others, as Vi&ory carried it ; and thefe when they hadbeen once of the Imperial Church, took it (when they fell under Heathens) to be their Honour, Strength, and Priviledge to be fo accounted fill, and fo would wine to their Councils after if they could: So it was with
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