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A27045	The successive visibility of the church of which the Protestants are the soundest members I. defended against the opposition of Mr. William Johnson, II. proved by many arguments / by Richard Baxter ; whereunto is added 1. an account of my judgement to Mr. J. how far hereticks are or are not in the church, 2. Mr. Js. explication of the most used terms, with my queries thereupon, and his answer and my reply, 3. an appendix about successive ordination, 4. letters between me and T.S., a papist, with a narrative of the success.	Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.; Johnson, William, 1583-1663.	1660 (1660)	Wing B1418; ESTC R17445	166,900	438

Illyricum sacrae nostrae literae dirigantur ut ad quendam definitum locum qui nobis placuerit omnes sanctissimi Episcopi debeant convenire It is not qui vobis placuerit but qui nobis But what if you had spoke truth doth it follow that Leo was Christs Vicar-general Governour of the world because that the Soveraign of one Commonwealth did give him leave to choose the place of a Council Serious things should not be thus jested with 2. You say Anatolius and the rest of the Eastern Bishops sent to Pope Leo the professions of their faith by his order Reply 1. And what then therefore Pope Leo was both Governour of them and all the Christian world You should not provoke men to laughter about serious things I tell you Can you prove this Consequence Confessions were ordinarily sent in order to Communion or to satisfie the offended without respect to superiority 2. But I see not the proof of your impertinent words Pulcherius Epistle to Leo expresseth that Leo had sent his Confession first to Anatolius to which Anatolius consented By your Rule then Leo was subject to Anatolius 3. You say the Popes Legates sate first in Council Reply What then therefore the Pope was Governour of the Christian world though not a man out of the Empire were of the Council Are you still in jest But if it must be so then I can prove that others were the Universal Governours because at Nice and other Councils they sate before the Legates of the Pope and in many his Legats had no place Is this argument good think you O unfaithful partiality in the matters of salvation 4. You say they prohibited Dioscorus to sit by his order Reply 1. What then therefore he was Universal Governour of the Church All alike Any accuser in a Parliament or Synod may require that the Accused may not sit as judge till he be tried 2. But did you not know that Leo's Legates were not obeyed but that the Gloriosissimi judices amplissimus senatus required that the cause should be first made known and that it was not done till Eusebius Episcop Dorylaei had read his bill of complaint Binnius Act 1. pag. 5. 5. You say the Popes Legates pronounced the Church of Rome to be Caput omnium Ecclesiarum Reply 1. What then therefore he was Governour of all the Christian world I deny the consequence You do nothing but beg not a word of proof Caput was but membrum principale the Patriarch primae sedes and that but in the Empire 2. The Popes Legates were not the Council nor judges in their own cause and not opposing signifies not alwayes a consent 3. But the Council do as I said expresly define the point both what your Primacy is and of how long standing and of whose institution and that Constantinople on the same grounds had equall priviledges 6. You say all the Fathers acknowledged thtmselves Leo 's Children and wrote to him as their Father Reply Of this you give me not any proof but leave me to read 190 pages in Folio to see whether you say true or no. And what if you do as I believe you do can a man of any reading be ignorant how ordinarily other Bishops were stiled Fathers even by their fellow-Bishops as well as the Bishop of Rome 7. You add that they humbly begged of him that the Patriarch of Constantinople might h●ve the first place next Rome which notwithstanding the Council had consented to as had also the third general Council at Ephesus before yet they esteemed their grants of no sufficient force till they were confirmed by the Pope Reply So far were the Council from what you falsly say of them that they put it into their Canons that Constantinople should have the second place yea and equal priviledges with Rome and that they had this on the same grounds as Rome had its Primacy even because it was the Imperial Seat Vid. Bin. pag. 133 124. col 2. And not only Ephesus but the second general Council at Constantinople they tell you had decreed the same before You see then contrary to your fiction that three general Councils of the greatest likened by Gregory to the 4 Evangelists not only judged without the Pope but by your own confession against him for you say he consented not yea so much did they slight the Popes consent that when his Legates dissented they were not heard See Bin. pag. 134 136. They persisted in the Council to maintain their Canon 38. notwithstanding the contradiction of Lucretius and Paschasinus and by the Judges it was accordingly pronounced p 137. And unanimously the whole Synod consented never stopping at the Roman dissent Pergamius Bishop of Antioch saith in omnibus sanctissimum Archiepiscopum Regiae civitatis novae Romae in honore cura sicut Patrem praecipuum habere nos convenit No man contradicted this And is not this as much or more then you alledge as spoke to Leo They call Leo you say Father And the Bishop of Constantinople is pronounced the Chief Father in all things in honour and Cure And Eusebius Bishop of Doryl the chief adversary of Dioscorus witnessed that he himself in the presence of the Clergy of Constantinople did read this Canon to the Pope at Rome and he received it Upon which your Historian hath no better an observation then that either Eusebius lyed or else at that hour he deceived Leo. It s true that the Synod writ to him for his consent but not as suspending any of their Decrees on it but telling him over and over that the things were by them defined and confirmed already pag. 140. that which they desired of him was what Synods ordinarily did of Bishops of their Communion that were absent Haec sicut propria amica ad decorem convenientissima dignare complecti sanctissime beatissime pater 13. In your Margin you tell me that Agapet in the time of Iustinian depo●ed Anthymius in Constantinople against the will of the Emperour the Empress Reply 1. And doth it follow that because he did it therefore he did it justly yea and as the Governour of that Church when Menna Bishop of Constantinople excommunicated Pope Vigilius was he not even with him and did that prove that Rome was subject to Constantinople Niceph. l. 17. c. 26. When Dioscorus excommunicated Leo and an Eastern Synod excommunicated Iulius Sozom. l. 3. c. 11. that proves not that they did it justly or as his Governours Honorius the Emperour deposed Boniface 1. Othe with a Synod deposed Iohan. 13. Iustinian deposed Sylverius and Vigilius Will you confess it therefore justly done 2. As to the history I refer you to the full answer of Blondel to Perron cap. 25. sect 84 85. 3. Usurpation and deposing one another by rash sentences was then no rare thing Eusebius of Nicomedia threatened the deposing of Alexander of Constantinople who sure was not his subject Socrat. lib. 1. c. 37. vel 25.