r 651 beff- `let ifi be retnernbred, z. That the 7ews had not under the chief High Prieft, one in every jtv or Tribe like Diocefane Bithops. 2. That rnei;Svrmv. guesbad difcipline withinthernfelves, ever IN hat' there was but a Village of ten per- fiaps, there was á. Presbyter that had the power of , mdging offenders, 36 What man doth prudently fet up, man may prudently alter as there is caufe. Greg. J11az,iaa z.en earneftly wifheth that there were no difference of Place or feats among thePaftors of the Church.And thereforehe neither thought their Government of each other to be of Divine right, ror of prudential neceffity or ufe : Elfe he would have been againft it. And the whole Greek Church did, and Hill Both take the feats of pre- mint to be but ofmans appointment, or elfe they would never have changed them, and fet Corfízantir eplh- fo high as they did And the Council of Calccclon exprefly determineth, that Rome was by the fathers made the chieffeat be- caufe it was the feat of the Emperour ; which was mutable, 4 3 7. The Councils in thofe dales were about Popes or Patriarchs, and could depofe them : And yet it is molt evident to any man confide- rately reading fuchhiftory, that all the Councils, called before Chriftian Emperours gave them more power and conjoyned their authority, did . meet only for aets of Agreement and not of Regiment over each other : Many fuch fynods are mentioned by Eiifebírs : And the Right Reverend Arch-bifhop Mier declared his judgment fo in general that Councils had but au agreeing power, and not aRegent power over the particular Biíhòps. Yet
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