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Ministrorum pag. 403. post med did offer the name of universal Bishop to the Bishop of Rome Hitherto concerning those only Fathers that lived in the age or Century next ensuing the four hundred years after Christ and their not doubtful but confessed testimomonies of the Jurisdiction really executed and extended by the Popes of those times not only over their Neighbour Churches and Bishops in Italy but over remote Provinces and the other greatest Arch-Bishops and Patriarchs of the world as namely of Antioch Hierusalem Alexandria and Constantinople c. And by them then accordingly acknowledged As concerning now the like testimony from the more antient Fathers that lived in the age next precedent which is the time wherein Constantine the great lived although the Church began as then but as it were to take breath from her former long endured persecutions whereby neither her writers were so many nor her face of outward Government so known as in the times succeeding yet is there not wanting even for that time sufficient testimony in this kind In regard whereof the Centurists affirm that [t] Centur. 4. col 549. lin 42. In this age the mystery of iniquity was not idle To this end they further allege that [u] Centur. 4. col 550. lin 28. the Bishops of Rome challenged by Ecclesiastical Canon the disallowing of those Synods whereat they were absent And Mr. Cartwright saith accordingly of Damasus whom St. Hierom and Protestants themselves tearm [x] Apud Brereley tract 2. cap. 1. sect 3. at 106. pag. 296. Hieron Ep. 57. to Pope Damasus saith Ego nullum primum nisi Christum sequens Beatitudini tuae id est Cathedrae Petri communione consocior super illam petram aedificatam Ecclesiam scio quicunque extra hanc domum agnum comederit prophanus est c. Quicunque tecum non colligit spargit And Optatus l. 2. contra Donatistas saith Negar●non potest scire te in urbe Roma Petro primo Cathedram Episcopalem collatam esse in qua sederit omn um Apostolorum caput Petrus unde Cephas appellatus est in qua una Cathedra unitas ab omnibus servaretur ne caeteri Apostoli singulas sibi quisqu defende●ent ut jam schismaticus peccator esset qui contra singularem Cathedram alteram collocaret ergo Cathedra unica est c. And again De dotibus suprad●ct● Cathedra est prima quam probavimus per Petrum nostram esse And St. Austin Epist 102. prope initium saith In Ecclesia Romana semper Apostolicae Cathedrae viguit Principatus And apud Brereley pag. 106.107 at 5● margent in Bullingers decades in English on the page next before the first decad is set down the Creed of Blessed Damasus Bishop of Rome c. and in the end of that page is also set down the Imperial Decree of the Emperors Gratian Valentinian and Theodosius to imbrace the Religion taught by Damasus and Peter of Alexandria whereof see Brereley tract 1. sect 8. subd 1. fine in the margent at 6. blessed that [y] Mr. Cartwright in his reply part 1. pag. 502. paulo post initium And in proof thereof he allegeth there in his margent Zozomen hist lib. 6. c. 23. post med he spake in the Dragons voice when he shameth not to write that the bishops of Romes sentence was alove all other to be attended for in a Synod And Mr. Whitaker confesseth the Ecclesiastical [z] Whitaker de Conciliis c. q. 2. pag. 42. fine 43. initio Canon of those times whereby it was decreed That no Council should be celebrated without the sentence of the Bishop of Rome And that [a] Ibid. pag. 44. pauio ante med saith bereof Fatemur Julium sibi talem authoritatem vendicasse And Mr. Cartwright in his 2. reply part 1. pag. 510. paulo post med saith Julius Bishop of Rome saith it was decreed by the Laws of the Church and immediatly after the Nicene Council that the Bishop of Rome must be called to the Synod and that that was voyd which was done there besides his sentence And see part 2. pag. 110. circa med This appeareth more plainly in Socrates and the Tripartite History For whereas the Arians had affembled a Council at Antioch whereat Maximus Bishop of Hierusalem and Julius Bishop of Rome were both of them absent Yet is the only absence of Iulius specially fet down as the only cause of disanulling the said Council And so accordingly it is said Maximus Bishop of Hierusalem was absent from thence c. Neither was Iulius Bishop of the greatest Rome present thereat neither did he appoint any in his place whereas yet the Eccelesiastical Canon doth command that no Council ought to be celebrated without the sentence of the Bishop of Rome Hist Tripartit l. 4. c 9. Socrates l. 2. c. 5. see Histor Tripart l. 4. c. 19. and see l. 5. c. 29. also in Socrates l. 2. c. 13. Julius doth accordingly allege this Canon Julius made challenge thereby For which [b] And whereas Bellarmine doth object this example of Iulius and other Bishops of Rome alleging this Canon Danaeus his only answer is That this objection nullius est momenti nam ab ipsius Romani Pontificis id est partis in sua causa testimonio profertur in resp ad Bellarm. part 1. p. 595. circa med at quarta ratio c. Danaeus reproveth him and certain other Bishops of Rome Also it is confessed that [c] M. Symonds upon the Revelations cap. 5. pag. 45. post med See also Cent. 4. col 550. lin 32. And Innocentius Epist ad Victoricum cap. 2. Damasus wrote to the Councils of Africk that the judgement of the causes of Bishops and all other matters of great importance may not be determined but by the authority of the Apostolick Sea And that accordingly [d] See this in Mr. Cartwrights 2. reply part 1. pag. 501. initio And the Conturists cent 4. col 529. lin 19. say Romani Episcopi regulam fecerunt ut ad se omnia praescribi primum mandarent ut patet ex Epistola lulii apud Athanasium Apologia secunda Inquit enim Iulius an ignari estis hanc consuetudinem esse ut primum nobis scribatur c. Julius Bishop of Rome at the Council of Antioch outreached in claiming the hearing of causes that appertained not to him In like manner concerning appeals made to Rome it is testified that [e] Mr. Symonds upon the Revelations cap. 5. pag. 53. fine And see the like in Damasus Epist 2. ad Stephanum ad Concilia Africae Julius decreed that whosoever suspected his Judge might appeal to the Sea of Rome That also Theodoret a Greek Father who lived in the latter end of this Century and was deposed by the second Council of Eph●sus [f] See Cent. 5. col 1013 lin 12. it is said of Theodoret Appellat ad judiciū leonis eique supplicat c. And