g Pl¢cfouo 'aft!): Bifhop be depot d: and in the Old, though not, as named, Apoftolical Conftitutions ; the man - ner was, fïtrff one Presbyter preached, then ano- ther, and lafl of all the Bop. At this time there was good llore of Preaching. Damaf ila the Firll, Bithop of Rome, in his Epittle de Cho - repifcop:a (hews how unlike Chritl they are who preach not ; Ipf enim docuit; ipfe ovem perditam quefivit, ipfe propriis humeris reportavit; Chrift did all himfeif. St. Auftin and St. Cbry- forlom preached every day ; ye heard yeflerday, ye (.ball hear to morrow, is common in their Homilies. Many of the Writings of Ambr ore, Nazianzen, Bafil and Cyril, were only their Sermons to the People ; and therefore in Con - cilio Vafenfi held about the Year of our Lord 440, it was ordered, That if the Presbyter were rick and unable to Preach, San6torum Patrum Homilie à Diaconis recitentur; The Dea. cons fhould read the Homilies of the holy Fathers! Gregory the Great in his Panora], faith, ui verbum predicationis fubtrahunt, animabas mo- rientibua vite remedia abfcondunt ; The un- preaching Minifter hides the Bread of Life from dying fouls. The fourth Toletan Council, which was a little after Gregory, faith, Omne opus Sa, cerdotum in predicatione confiltit, Preaching is a Miniflers All. In the Council of Mentz under Charles the Great, It was Ordered, Can. 25. Menquam defit diebus Dominick qui Verbum Dei Predicet;0n Sabbath days a Preacher muff not be wafting ; No, though the Bifhop be lick it Intro not, as that Can. faith. In the Oxford Con1
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