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A42925	Repertorium canonicum, or, An abridgment of the ecclesiastical laws of this realm, consistent with the temporal wherein the most material points relating to such persons and things, as come within the cognizance thereof, are succinctly treated / by John Godolphin ...	Godolphin, John, 1617-1678.	1678 (1678)	Wing G949; ESTC R7471	745,019	782

the Semi-Arrians prevail and determine That the Form of Faith composed at the Dedication at Antioch should be retained and subscribed unto but they ejected the dissenting Acatians or Arrians from their places At Constantinople where the Acatians remained after the Council at Seleucia were Assembled by them about 50 Bishops out of Bythinia and other adjacent parts In this Synod they confirmed the Sum of Faith read in the Council of Ariminum At Antioch in the 25 th year of Constantius his Reign another Council was Convened with design or ordering matters so that for the time to come no man should call the Son of God Consubstantial with the Father nor yet of a different substance from the Father but neither in this Council could the Arrians perfect their intended purpose of inventing a new Sum of Faith At Laodicea not that Laodicea nigh Antioch in Syria but at Laodicea the Metropolis of Phyrgia and one of the Seven Churches of Asia to which John in his Banishment wrote from Patmos At this Laedicea a Synod was assembled about the year 368. wherein nothing was determined concerning matters of Faith only the Worshipping of Angels was damned as an horrible Idolatry and a forsaking of Christ also the Books of the Canonical Scriptures were particularly set forth wherein no mention was made of the Books of the Machabees of Ecclesiasticus or other Apocryphal Books In Illyricum about the year 370 under the Emperours Valentinian and Valens not yet infected with the Arrian Heresie was held a Council wherein the Nicene Faith had confirmation and allowance At Lampsacum nigh the Hellespont under the Emperour Valens was a Synod of Macedonian Hereticks who ratified the Council of Seleucia and damned that of Constantinople by the Acatians At Rome under the Emperour Valentinian in the West Damasus Bishop of Rome Convened a Council wherein was confirmed the Nicene Faith At Constantinople in the year 383 under Theodosius the Emperour was a General Council held consisting of 150 Bishops whereof 36 were infected with the Macedonian Heresie which blasphemously held the Holy Ghost to be a Creature a Minister and Servant not Consubstantial with the Father and the Son From this Council the said Hereticks having withdrawn themselves they which remained in Council damned the Heresie of Macedonius and confirmed the Nicene Faith with ampliation of that part of the Symbol which concerned the Holy Ghost in this manner viz. I believe in the Holy Spirit our Lord Giver of life who proceedeth from the Father and with the Father and the Son is to be worshipped and glorified This Council was held under Gratian and Theodosius the Great and Damasus They condemned and discharged Macedonius Bishop of Constantinople for his perfidious opposing the Deity of the Holy Ghost together with Maximus Cynicus by reason of his Doctrine against Discipline The Emperour null'd all Confessions except that of those who acknowledged Christ Coessential with the Father which our present Liturgy retains under the name of the Nicene Creed It is thought that Gregory Nazianzen compiled it according to the sense of the Synod At Constantinople under Theodosius another Council was held whence a Synodick Letter was sent to the Bishops then Conven'd at Rome declaring the troubles they sustained by Hereticks and as to matters of Discipline recommended unto them the Canons of the Council of Nice At Constantinople in the Fifth year of Theodosius his Reign a great National Council was again Conven'd wherein the Hereticks were divided among themselves touching what Credit they should give in matters of Faith to the Fathers that preceded their time whereupon that good Emperour rent in pieces the Sums of the Arrian Eunomian and Macedonian Faith and Ordained the Homousian Faith only to take place At Carthage the Second Council was assembled under Theodosius nigh the time of the foresaid General Council held at Constantinople wherein the Nicene Faith was confirmed abstinence from Matrimonial Society with Infidels and Hereticks recommended to Ecclesiastical persons At Nice there was another Council An. 181. under Constantine which wholly restored the Images and Statues of Irene together with the Reliques formerly broken in pieces by Leo Isaurus his Grandfather and Constantine Copronymus his Great Grandfather the business being chiefly promoted by Gregory the Second and the Third together with Adrian the First and Tarasius Patriarch of Constantinople There met at this Council which is one of the Greek or Eastern Oecumenical Councils 350 Bishops who with the said Tarasius President of the said Council by 22 Canons condemned Image-breakers for Hereticks Bellarmine and Baronius imagine that this Synod was condemned by the Fathers at the Council of Franckfort under Charles the Great which yet is denied by Binnius Surius and others according to Longus pag. 632. At Carthage a Third Council was Assembled in the year 399 at which Augustine Bishop of Hippo was present wherein it was inter alia Ordained That the Bishop of Rome should be called the Bishop of the First Seat but not the High Priest or the Prince of Priests Likewise That nothing except the holy Canonical Scriptures should be read in Churches under the notion of Holy Books At Carthage a Fourth National Council was held under the Reign of Honorius about the year 401. consisting of 214 Bishops at which Augustine Bishop of Hippo was also present and wherein were nigh as many Canons made as were Bishops assembled wherein among other things it was Ordained That a Bishop should admit no man to a Spiritual Office without Advice of the Clergy nor pronounce any Sentence without such Advice That Refusers to pay unto the Church the Oblations of persons Deceased should be Excommunicated Whereby it appears That Oblationes Defunctorum were not Soul-Masses said for the Dead but Charity by way of Testamental Legacies At Cyprus under the Reigns of Arcadius and Honorius was Assembled a Council by Epiphanius And at Alexandria by Theophilus under pretence of damning the Books of Origen Also at Constantinople by the malice of Eudoxia the Wife of Arcadius the Emperour to depose John Chrysostome Bishop of Constantinople At Carthage about the year 419. a Fifth Council was held wherein the Opinions of Pelagius and Coelestius were damned as Heretical and whereby it was Declared That the Adoration of Reliques was at this time the Custome of Ethnicks and Appointed That Supplication should be made to the Emperours That such Reliques as were found in Images Groves and Trees or elsewhere should be abolished At Toledo in Spain under the Reigns of Arcadius and Honorius was a Council assembled for Confirmation of the Nicene Council and refutation of some Errors At Melevitum in Numidia was Assembled under the Reign of Arcadius a Council whereof St. Augustine was President which was Assembled chiefly to finish the work begun at the Fifth Council of Carthage in

other Bodies they conceived that he which kept most of the Commandments although he transgress'd in some was just before God with innumerable Pharisaical Proud and Hypocritical conceits and actions The Sadduces either from Sedec Justice because they were fevere and rigorous in Judgment or of one Sadoch the first Inventer of their Heresie or from both These Sadduces were called Minim or Minei that is Hereticks They interpreted the Scriptures after their own Sense and rejected Traditions they denied a future Reward and consequently the Resurrection they denied also the subsistence Spiritual they cooped up God in Heaven without all beholding of evil They denied Spirit altogether for they held God to be corporeal the Soul to dye with the Body the denied Angels and Devils they ascribed good and evil to a mans Free Will The Hessees Essees or Essens either from a word which signifieth Rest or Quietness and Silence or Essaei quasi 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Holy They are placed by Pliny on the West of the Dead Sea a people solitary without women without Money they make no weapon of Warr nor meddle with Merchandize they have no servants but are all both free and mutually servants to each other they live perpetually chast counting continence and contentment great Vertues they swear not at all and have all things Common they avoid pleasures and riches as sins they marry nor yet do not deny the lawfulness of Marriage but the honesty of Women they shun Oyl and Neatness yet always wear a white Garment they neither buy nor sell but mutually communicate they were worshippers of the Sun for before the Sun riseth they speak of no worldly matter but celebrate certain Prayers as praying him to rise they hate an Oath no less than Perjury they keep the Books of their own Opinions and the names of the Angels they give no Sentence of Judgement being fewer than one hundred they will not so much as purge Nature on the Sabbath for fear of prophaning it thereby The Galilaeans their Doctrine was that onely God was to be accounted their Lord and Prince and would rather endure any the most exquisite Tortures than call any mortal man their Lord in other things they agreed with the Pharisees The Hemerobaptists so called from their being baptized or wash'd every day at all times of the year they were in their Doctrine of the Resurrection and in Infidelity like unto the Sadduces in other things they differed not from the Scribes and Pharisees The Nazaraeans they would not eat any thing which had life and held it unlawful to eat Flesh They disallowed the five Books of Moses They placed all Righteousness in Carnal Observations And professing to imitate Sampson they nourished the hair of their head placing all their Vertue therein The Ossens were an Issue of the Ancient Essens holding some things of theirs as concerning the worshipping of Angels and of the Sun adding thereto other Heresies of their own The Sampsaeans would not admit either the Apostles or the Prophets They worshipped Water esteeming it as a God believing that life is from thence The Massalians were a Slip of the Essees but after by Marriage with some Pseudochristians of Jewish became Christian Hereticks The Herodians thought Herod to be the Messias and entered into society for costs and charges in Common to be bestowed on Sacrifices and other Solemnities wherewith they honoured Herod alive and dead The Genites or Genists stood upon their Stock and Kindred because in the Babylonish captivity or after they married not strange Wives and therefore boast themselves of the purity of Abraham's seed The Merissaeans or Merists were as the name imports sprinklers of their Holy Water they made a division of the Scriptures and received only some part thereof The Coelicoli were also an Off-spring of the Essees and from these proceeded the Massalians they were Jews though they corruptly embraced Christianity and being baptized revolted to their former Judaism and retained the Rites of these Coelicolae or Heaven-worshippers they had their places of prayer abroad in the open air The Ophitae or Serpentines worshipped a Serpent saying that he first procured us the knowledge of Good and Evil for which God envied him and cast him from the first Heaven into the second whence they expect his coming esteeming him some virtue of God and to be worshipped The Caiani which commend Cain for Fratricide saying that Cain was made of the power of the Devil Abel of another power but the greatest power was in Cain to slay Abel The Sethiani were worshippers of Seth the Son of Adam who affirmed that two men being created in the beginning and the Angels dissenting the Feminine power prevailed in Heaven for with them they held are Males and Females Gods and Goddesses Eve perceiving that brought forth Seth and placed in him a Spirit of great power that the adversaries power might be destroyed Of Seth they held that Christ should come of his Stock yea some of them conceived him to be the very Christ The Heliognosti were such as worshipped the Sun and held that the Sun knew all the things of God and yielded all necessaries to men The Frogg-worshippers were such as held that worship was due to those croking Creatures thereby thinking to appease Divine Wrath which in Phara●h's time brought Frogs upon the Land of Egypt The Accaronites were such as held that worship was to be performed unto a Flye and did worship it accordingly probably for the same blind reason that others of them worshipped Frogs for Divine Wrath was executed by the one as well as by the other The Thamuzites of Thamuz the Son of a heathen King they held that his image was to be worshipped and abroed accordingly the Jewish Women that were bewitched with this Heresie worshiped this image of Thamuz with Tears and continual Sacrifices and held further that Pharaoh which ruled in Egypt in Moses his time was of that Name The Samaritans were those Jewish Hereticks who held especially the Cuthaeans among them an abstinence from pollution by the Dead or Bones the Slain the Sepulchres they held washing their bodies changing their vestments when they enter into the Synagogue they held such Heretical opinions that the other Jews would have no dealings with them they held that only the five Books of Moses were Canonical Scripture the rest they recived not they held that neither the Trinity nor the Resurrection was to be acknowledged they wash'd themselves with Urine when they came from any stranger being thereby as they held polluted they held themselves prophan'd by the touch of one of another Faith therefore if they touch'd one of another Nation they div'd themselves garments and all in Water they held a dead Corps in abomination presently If they met a Jew or Christian they said Touch me not They call themselves