( 67 ) poorea Manofall:] (By this he fheweth what Church be meant, and how i know great the Churchwas.) Et Serm. 2 is pag..313. Redundät in uria in locum il- the learned g p S 3 J AlbaCpi- lam ; Ecclefram enim totam contemns -Propterea enim Ecclefiadicitur, quizcomma- naus la. niter omnes accipit. This doth not only thewwhat Church he meaneth, but boureth to fully confirmeth what I faid before : that [ The whole Church was in that place : Ptie Ä that and that the plats it therefore ;called the Church; besaufe it commonly receiveth all.] were ñop But note that this was not preach'dat Conftantinople, but yet at the great Patri- at thefa archal Church of Antioch. crament, And I may add as to the former Evidences, 7'0. 5. Serra. 52. pag.7o5. when and inthat he had (hewed that in theChurch there mull be no divifion, he expoundeth it herhixketh by [6I.t4v TO: TNî611Y6A4 TOXÚTNS i2UTÓY all ot:P1 °t5.] [&ui feipfum ab hoe con- that they ventuf'unxerit.] So that theAffenibly was the Church, and nota thoufandth were meet- part ofthe Church only. eng: of the. See more of the Churches feaftin together in Baronies ad an. pag. ed. holey, $ 57 j i ternity, Plant.) 543 to (pare me more labour about this, and its like no VI. Another Evidence of theLimits of the ancient Churches is (that which b°10 was Ioft mentioned in the particular Teflimonies) that everywhere all thePeople meu hánht either chofe, or exprdly contented totheir Bi[hops, and they were ordained over church- them in their fight. And this no more coulddo thancould meet in one place hhufe, fo andone part ofa Church hath no more right to it than all the refit. The Con- that this fequence is evident : And for them that fay, that it was only-the Pari(hioners d erence. of the Cathedral Church that voted ; I anfwer, Now Cathedrals have no Pa. tithes, and heretofore the Cathedral Parifhwas thewhole Church. The Tali- monies fully prove that it was All the Church or Peo4le that were the Bzilhop's Flock,: Andfor Come hundreds of Years there were no Pari(ltes in his Diocefs but one, and therefore no lushdiflin'ion. Pamelius's heap of Testimonies, and many more, for the matter of faec I have already cited : And however force talk now to juftifie the contrary courfe of our times, it is fo clear and full in Antiquity that the People chofe their Bishops, at firft principally, and after fecondarily after the Clergy, having a Negative Voice with them, and their Confent and Teftimony ever neceffary, even for eight hundred Years at leaft, that it would be aneedlefs thing to cite any more Teflímonies of it to any ver- fed in the Ancients. Papifls and Proteftantsare agreed defaEto that fo it was, See Cyprian, lib. 4. Epift. 2. of Cornelius ; lib. i. Epijt. 2. of Sabinuz ; and lib. a. Eplt. 4. Eufeb. Hi/I. lib. 6. cap. 29. tells us that Fabian by the People was chofen to fucceed Anterus. And Cyprian faith it was Traditione Apoftolica; vid. &Socrat. lib. 4. cap. 14. 6- lib. 2. cap. 6. & lib. 7. cap. 35. & Sozomen. lib. 6. cap. 24. & lib. 8. cap. 2. OfChryfoJtom ; & lib. 6. cap. 13. mid. &Au- guffin. Epift. Ho. & Theodoret, H/II. lib. i. cap. 9. in Epp. Conch. IViceni ad Alexandra The Bloodshed at the Choice of Damafus was one of the dril occafions oflaying by that culiomat Dome. And yet though they. met not fo tumultuoufly, they mull confent. Leo's Teftimony I gave you before with má- -ny more. Theodor. lib. 5. cap. 9. of Neelaritts fheweth that Bishops were then chofen, Plebe prefente & univerfa fraternitate, as Cyprian fpeaketh of Sabinus. I a So
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