i1 1i C6C I rundam patrocinio fuerit quifquam .Elea us, Vo.. luntatibus corum cum fuerit ordinates obedire, re- verentía ëxigente compellitur-- -Talem ergo to ad- monente per,fonana debent eligere, qua nullins in- ccngrux voluntati defrviat, fed vita moribus decorata, tanto ordine digna valeat inveniri. And at the Council Parif 3. in the daies of Pope 1 ohn }. and K. Childe6err, when Kings were for- bidden to make Bifhops, it was ordained Can. 8, that [1°ßu/lus civibus invitir ordinetur Epifopus níf quer Populi C Clericorti3n eleElio pleniffirna qu ferit voluntate, on principis imperio. And the Bifhops are forbidden to receive him into their number who is made byKings At the Council of Calcedon, _AEI. 12. it was determined; that neither of the two Bifhops of Cphe/ies,Baffianus,or Stephanus,could be Bifhops, hecaufe not duly eluted, but a third to be cho- fen. See alto for the peoples unanimous Ele- Lion of their Bifhop Greg. ï, Epift. 65. in Bins Vol. 2, p. 890. We need not bid the Learned enquire whe- ther Gregory N .ocef. Ball, .ilmbrofe, Martin, ,arnafss; (and fo of the reft) ordinarily were Bi(hops without the content of the people over whom they were placed : And though fome- rimes the peoples choice have (many hundred years only after Chrifts time,but not in thePrie unitive Church) been retrained, fo was not their contenting voice denied. I have tranflated and ad joS tied the Epiffle of Cyprian and an .Jfricane Council with him (where were then the belt ordered Churches in the World; as farr as I can learn) in which they eounfel the Churches of .Ba ihdes and Martial to
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