272. f evelltion ofthe Apocalypfe. C A P. 8. tious afpiring after thefe things, was caft into the Doarine, when there was a neW decree ofthe Counsel made, as touching order andbo- nour,ofWhich theirancefiors Wilmer once dreamed: Forwe hewed before,that the Sea to the DoE.ïrine, Which is moll pure in the true, and heavenly Church, ChaP.4.6. But in the earthly and false Church, it is groffe,and troubled, Chap. 7. i. Seeing therefore this is the mean- ingofthe words, we (hall finde, that this fecondAngel blew prefent- ly after the firft,among the fame Fathers of Nice. Forafter the mat- terwas once determined about the coeffentiagnature of the Sonne, apieut the celebrating of the'Paffeover in one and the fame day ; and Concerning Adiletius, they addreffe tlemfilvestomake Canons, Where- by the Ecclefaficall Difciplinefhouldbegoverned Arnow other Ca- nons,they decreeas touching the Primacie °ÎMetropolis-4 ifeps,that the BttbopofAlexandria fhoul l have polder over all the Churches in Egypt or Lybia, andPentapolis, becaufe the Bi.4op of Rome had the ltepriviledge: LikeWife that in Antioch,andother Provinces, evert Church fliouldhavehis oWne honour . referved unto it fife. Andthat noman fhouldbe counteda Bishop, that is ordained befide the Wilt, and privity of the Metropolitan, that the Bishop of Jcrufalem fbould be effo honoured in his due place, all'ayesprovided; that the properdigni= ty ofthe Metropolitan City fbould rematvte untouched. This burning Mounteine was cal into thefea, when upon this onfet Ecclefiafticall mengrove together about dignities and honours as for Heaven it Pelf. In former time indeed, Churches of leffe note andname, were wont when any doubt arofe, to goe to, and confult with the learned and skilful! Bilhops ofm.ore famous Cities, and to require their help, who by reafon of the eminencie of the place had more authority, but that which they did before of their owne accord, they nowmuPt doeof necefßcy, and thofe whom of old they fainted as brethrenand fellow- labourers ; Now they mutt call them by higher titles. Hence that domination, and lordly fuperiority among Minifters invaded the Church,bymeans whereofall things were shortly after turned upfide downe. Conftantinople thought her dignity was little provided for by this Nicene Creed. Wherefore a few yeeres after, when there was a connedgathered together in that place ; Under Gratian & Theodolites th, Elder,is decreed in more plain words,that the Rif op tfConfianti- nople otsóht to have the honour ofthe Ps imacie,after the Ren'tanBiihop, becaufe ít it a neWRome, Coin. Cont. t . Can 4. In which words the both bewrav°ed her own ambition, and the (hewed a little more ful- 1y,what the NiseneCounsel meant,by thofe more obfcure circumfl:an- ces and circumlocutions. And
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