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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02563	The olde religion a treatise, wherin is laid downe the true state of the difference betwixt the reformed, and Romane Church; and the blame of this schisme is cast vpon the true authors. Seruing for the vindication of our innocence, for the setling of wauering minds for a preseruatiue against Popish insinuations. By Ios. Hall, B. of Exon.	Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.	1628 (1628)	STC 12690; ESTC S117610	79,903	246

for vs against the Pride of his following Successours he could not haue set a keener edge vpon his stile Consonant whereto it is yet extant in the very Canon Law as quoted by Gratian out of the Epistle of Pope Pelagius the second Vniuersalis autem nec etiam Romanus Pontifex appelletur Not the Bishop of Rome himselfe may bee called Vniuersall Yet how famously is it knowne to all the World that the same Gregories next Successour saue one Boniface the third obtained this title of vniuersall Bishop from the Emperour Phocas which the said Emperour gaue him in a spleene against Cyriacus Patriarch of Constantinople for deliuering Constantina the Wife of Mauritius and her Children or as some others relate it vpon a worse occasion And accordingly was this haughty title communicated by the same power to the See of Rome and by strong hand euer since maintained This qualification their Register Platina confesses was procured not without great contention And Otho Frisingensis fully and ingenuously writeth thus Gregorie departed hence to the Lord After whom the next saue one Boniface obtained of Phocas that by his authoritie the Romane Church might bee called the head of all Churches For at that time the See of Constantinople I suppose because of the seat of the Empire translated thither wrote her selfe the first Thus their Bishop Otho Now if any man shall think that hence it will yet follow that the See of Rome had formerly enioyed this honour how euer the Constantinopolitan for the present shouldred with her for it Let him know the ground of both their challenges which as it was supposed by Otho So is fully for the satisfaction of any indifferent iudgement layd forth in the Generall Councell of Chalcedon The same say those Fathers we determine of the priuiledges of the most holy Church of Constantinople called New Rome For the Fathers haue iustly heretofore giuen priuiledge to the Throne of old Rome because that Citie was then the Gouernesse of the world and vpon the same consideration were the hundred and fiftie Bishops men beloued of God moued to yeeld equall priuiledges to the Throne of new Rome rightly iudging that this Citie which is honoured with the Empire and Senate and is equally priuiledged with old Rome the then Queene of the world should also in Ecclesiasticall matters bee no lesse extolled and magnified Thus they And this act is subscribed Bonifacius Presbyter Ecclesiae Romanae statui subscripsi I Boniface Presbyter of the Church of Rome haue so determined and subscribed Et caeteri c. And the rest of the Bishops of diuers Prouinces and Cities subscribed What can be more plaine This headship of the Bishop was in regard of the See and this headship of the See was in regard of the preeminence of the Citie which was variable according to the changes of times or choyce of Emperours But Binius wrangleth here Can we blame him when the free-hold of their Great Mistresse is so neerely touched This act saith he was not Synodicall as that which was closely and cunningly done in the absence of the Popes Legates and other Orthodox Bishops at the instance of Anatolius Patriarch of Constantinople an ambitious man by the Easterne Bishops only How can this plea stand with his owne confessed subscription Besides that their Caranza in his Abridgement showes that this point was long and vehemently canuassed in that Councell betweene Lucentius and Boniface Legates of the Romane Church and the rest of the Bishops and at last so concluded as we haue related not indeed without the protestation of the sayd Legates Nobis praesentibus e. The Apostolike See must not in our presence be abased Notwithstanding this act then carried and after this Pope Simplicius succeeding to Hilarius made a decree to the same purpose not without allusion to this contention for precedencie that Rome should take place of Constantinople Yea so vtterly vnthought of was this absolute Primacie and headship of old as that when the Roman Dition was brought downe to a Dukedome and subiected to the Exarchate of Rauenna the Arch-Bishop of Rauenna vpon the verie same grounds stucke not as Blondus tells vs to striue with the Bishop of Rome for prioritie of place So necessarily was the rising or fall of the Episcopall Chaire annexed to the condition of that Citie wherein it was fixed But in all this we well see what it is that was stood vpon an arbitrable precedencie of these Churches in a prioritie of order and according thereunto the Bishop of Rome is determined to be primae sedis Episcopus the Bishop of the first See A style which our late learned Soueraigne professed with Iustinian not to grudge vnto the moderne Bishops of that See But as for a Primacie of Soueraignty ouer all Churches and such an Headship as should enforme and enliue the body and gouerne it with infallible influences it is so new and hatefull as that the Church in all ages hath opposed it to the vtmost neither will it bee endured at this day by the Greeke Church notwithstanding the colourable pretence of subscription hereunto by their dying Patriarch Ioseph of Constantinople in the late Florentine Councell and the letters of vnion subscribed by them Anno 1539. Yea so farre is it from that as that their Emperour Michael Paleologus for yeelding a kinde of subiection of the Easterne Bishops to the Roman would not bee allowed the honour of Christian buriall as Aemilius hath recorded And in our time Basilius the Emperour of Russia which challengeth no small part in the Greeke Church threatned to the Popes Legate as I haue beene informed an infamous death and buriall if hee offered to set foot in his Dominions out of a iealous hate of this vsurpation SECT II. The newnesse of challenged Infallibilitie THe particularities of this new arrogation of Rome are so many that they cannot be pent vp in any strait roome I will only instance in some few The Popes infallibilitie of Iudgement is such a paradoxe as the very Histories of all times and proceedings of the Church doth sufficiently conuince For to what purpose had all Councels beene called euen of the remotest Bishops to what purpose were the agitations of all controuersall causes in those Assemblies as Erasmus iustly obserues if this opinion had then obtained Or how came it about that the sentences of some Bishops of Rome were opposed by other Sees by the Successours of their owne by Christian Academies if this conceit had formerly passed for currant with the World How came it to passe that whole Councels haue censured and condemned some Bishops of Rome for manifest Heresies if they were perswaded before hand of the impossibilitie of those errours Not to speake of Honorius of Liberius and others the Councell of Basil shall be the voyce of common obseruation Multi Pontifices c. Many Popes say they are recorded to haue