-( 68 ) So theConcil: Parifien. even Mt. 559. But for more plentiful proofof this fee M. A. Spalatenf. de Rep. Eccl f lib. t. cap. 2,.2. n. IO. â lib. 6. cap.7. lib. 3. cap. 3; n. J 2. &C & Blondel de lureplebis, more copioufly, and de Epif. Presbyt. & Bilfon perpet. Govern. cap. r5. 6 lib. of ChriftianSubjeétion oft. And it is to benoted that when the People'sConflation had made them Teem uncapable any longer to chufe.: i. This was longof the Prelates thetnfelves, who by-that time had fo far enlarged their.Churches, that thePeoplewere nei- ther capable ofdoing their ancient Work and Duty, nor yet of being ruledby. the Clergy aright 2. And when the People were reftrained from the Choice by Meetings and Vote, the Magiflrates in their {lead did undertake the Power. 3. And when it fell out ofthe People's hands into Great Mens, the Proudand Covetouswho could-beflfeek andmake Friends did. get theBilhopricks, where- upon the Chufches were prefently changed, corrupted and undone.. 4. And the feule of this moved the few good Btlbops that wereleft to make Canons againll: this Power andChoice of Princes and great Men, decreeing thatall Bi- ll-lops obtruded by them on the Churches thould be as none, but be avoided, and all avoided that did not avoid them: And the Roman andPatriarchal party cunningly jöyned with there honefi Reformers to get the.Choice out of the "Magiftrate's hands that they might get it into their own ; and fo Chrilt's Church was abufed among ambitious Ufurpers. The Decrees against Magifirates :Choice of Bithops you may fee, Can. Apoff. 31. &De- éret.17. q.7. c. fiquis Epifc. Sept. Synod. C. 3. Decret. 16. g. 7. 0c7. Synod. c. 12. .za. I. a c. 22. Decree. r6. q. 7. Nicol. r. Epift..so. & Epijt. 64. with more which you may find cited by Spalatenf. lib. 6.. cap. 7.. pag. 675, 676, 677. - And it is tobe noted that (though fin the Clergy had a Negative or firlt Choice, yet) when they procured Charles theGreat (who was to rife by the 'Papal help) to=refign and renounce the Magiflrates Elellion, he reftored the Church to its Ancient Liberties, as far as enlarged Diocefes and ambitious Clergy-men would permit it. His words are there, [Sacrorum Canonum non ignari ut inVei nomine Sanéla Ecclefia fuo liberius potiretur,bonare,a nfümordini Ec- clefiaftieo pr.ebuimus, at fcilicet Epifcopi per EleElionem CLERI FOPVLI fe- cundumftatutà.Canonùm de PROPRIA DIOECESI, remota perfonarum 6- mu- nerum acceptione, ob'vita meritum& fapienti.e donuno, eligantur, ut exempla & ver- bis fibi" fubletiis ufquequaque prodeffe valeant. ] Vid. Baron. To. t t. n.26. Décret. Dirt. 63. e Sacrorum. Where note that, t. he includeth the.People of the whole Diocefs. 2. And doth this as according to the facred Canons. So that for Men to dream that only the. Parilhioners of a Cathedral Church (which had no properParilla) or the Citizens only, were to _ chufe, is to feign that which is contrary tonotorious Evidence of Lawand Falr,as well as of the reafon of the thing. For where all are the Bifnope Flock, and chute as bid Flock, there all the Flock: mutt chute, anda parcel can claim no privilegq above all therefl. Vlz.. The...
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