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A46985	A reply to the defense of the Exposition of the doctrin of the Church of England being a further vindication of the Bishop of Condom's exposition of the doctrin of the Catholic Church : with a second letter from the Bishop of Meaux.	Johnston, Joseph, d. 1723.	1687 (1687)	Wing J870; ESTC R36202	208,797	297

been the case of St. Athanasius in whose Seat Gaudentius had been placed by the Eusebians nor that these (d) Bin. Tom. 1. Conc. p. 540. c. 1. F. Fathers acknowledged that it would be the best and most agreeable thing that Priests from all Countries should have recourse to the Head that is to the Seat of Peter the Apostle nor that it was looked upon in this Age as an (e) Socrat. l. 2. Hist c. 5. p. 244. D. c. 11. p. 246. c. 13. Epist. Julii ad Orient Episc Apud St. Athan. Apol. 2. Soz●m lib. 3. c. 7. p. 446. F. c. 9. Established Law that nothing was to be determined without the concurrence of the Apostolic See all which considered he will find no just reason to reject this Epistle upon the Plea that it Establishes the Popes Authority I have already mentioned that the Second General Council that of Constantinople was called by the (f) Bin. Tom. 1. Conc. p. 667. A. Popes Authority And this (a) Can. 3. Bin. Tom. 1. Conc. p. 661. B. Council ordained that the Patriarch of Consiantinople should have Prime Honor after the Bishop of Rome The Third General Council that of Ephesus (b) Bin. Tom. 2. Conc. p. 282. B. Deposed Nestorius as they say Compelled by the Sacred Canons and the Epistle of Pope Celestine and referred the more difficult case of John (c) Ibid. pag. 353. D. Patriarch of Antioch to the Pope The Fourth besides what I have already mentioned that they admitted ●he accusation brought against (d) Bin. Tom 3. Conc. p. 50. B. Dioscorus for having taken upon him to assemble a Council without the Popes Authority frequently calls Pope Leo the (e) Act. 1.2 3. passim Vniversal Bishop of the Church and affirms that our Blessed Lord had (f) Epist ad Leonem Ibid. p. 474. B. committed to him the care of his Vineyard that is his Church I will not mention any later Councils these may suffice to Protestants of the Church of England as by Law Established Seeing their Authority has been approved by (g) 1 Eliz. c. 1. Act of Parliament Neither will I go to the antient Canons of the Church but shall conclude That seeing it is manifest that ever since the Council of Nice the Bishop of Rome did exercise this Universal Pastoral care over the whole Church Excommunicating offending Bishops in other Kingdoms and Countries restoring those that had been Excommunicated unjustly to their Sees and Confirming others calling General Councils and Presiding in them and that Appeals were usually made to him in greater Causes from all Countries no beginning of which can be shewn nor no opposition made to it in those Primitive Ages but only by the Arians or other Condemned Heretics Seeing I say this is clearly matter of fact we must necessarily conclude that this Authority was looked upon at that time as given him by Divine Right and as coming down in a constant practice from the Apostles For seeing all persons in all Ages and Countries are ready to defend their Privileges and oppose usurpations had this been such or had they been exempt from such Jurisdiction they would have Unanimously opposed it in some of the succeeding General Councils after they had seen such Epistles from the Popes challenging that Authority But we find them so far from this that his plea is admitted in those very Councils and not the least Opposition made From what I have already said it will appear how easy a thing it might be to shew him in the Primitive Fathers and Councils what is given by all Catholics at present to his Holyness or challenged by him as of Necessary Faith. As to the Popes being stiled Vniversal Bishop he knows that St. Gregory the Great declined that Title in one Sense tho' he challenged it in another that is he looked not upon himself as Universal Bishop in this sense as if there were no other Bishop but he Sicut docuit Beatus Gloriesorum Apostolorum Princeps cujus Cathedram Beatitudini tuae credidit Christus optimus Pastor Bin. Tom. 3. Conc. p. 681. c. 2. D. Non enim ignor●s ejus ingenium qui quotidie a Sacro doctore tuo Petro doceris oves Christi per totum habitabilem mundum creditas tibi pascere non vi sed sponte coactus Ibid. P. but yet in this other as he was the Supreme visible head of Christs Church upon Earth And for the Proof of this Title besides what I have already mentioned I will send our Defender to the Epistle of the Eastern Bishops to Pope Symmachus in which they do not only acknowledge him to have been placed in the Chair of St. Peter Prince of the Apostles by Christ the chief Pastor but that all the Sheep of Christ in the whole habitable world were committed to him to Feed And in this sense I suppose it is that he was called Vniversal Bishop and Patriarch in the Council of * Bin. Tom. 3. Conc. p. 246. 250. Chalcedon That the Pope was usually stiled the Successor of St. Peter and Vicar of Jesus Christ upon Earth is so noted in Antiquity that I wonder the Defender would desire me to direct him to the places I have already shewn him some of them which I hope may suffice if his business be not to Cavil The last Authority which he says the Pope lays claim to is that all other Bishops must derive their Authority from him The terms of which Proposition are very ambiguous and therefore when our Defender has explicated his meaning more clearly and shewn that all Catholics allow it in the sense he intends I will undertake to shew him that the same Authority was acknowledged to be due to him even in the Primitive times For the Church has not innovated in this any more than in her other Doctrins The Close to the Defender Sir HAving so fully answered all the objections you have made against me or our Doctrin §. 132. and in the soregoing Articles not only vindicated what was delivered by the Bishop of Meaux as the Doctrin of the Catholic Church and Council of Trent but also shewn the consent of Antiquity for the truth of it I hope you will excuse me if I tire not my Reader by a repetition of the same in Answer to your recapitulation under the reflecting Titles of Old and new Popery I shall therefore only refer you and them to what has been said in the body of the Book and most commonly in the close of every Article for an answer to what was not particularly mentioned in your Defence where I hope I have convincingly made it appear that your Parallel is wholly grounded upon your mistake not to give it any worse title of our Doctrin You know very well Sir that I might in exchange have given you a Parallel of New and Old Protestancy if that can be called old which is not of above 150 Years standing with a

how to use or lay aside this word Hypostasis in Explicating the Mystery of the Trinity I may add Transubstantiation in Explicating that of the Eucharist I hope he will with the same Saint glory in being (i) Ego interim clamito Si quis Cathedrae Petri jungitur meus est Ep. 58. ad cund united to the Chair of St. Peter and exhort (k) Et quia vercor i me rumore cognovi in quibusdam adbuo vioere pullulare venenata plantaria illud te pio charita is affectu praemenendum puto ut Sancti Innocentii qui Apostolicae Cathedrae Successor esT teneas Fidem nec peregrinam quantumvis tibi prudens callidaque videaris doctrinam recipias Epist 8. ad Demetriad c. 9. others to do the same With * Deus unus est Christus unus una Ecclasia Cathedra una super Petrum domini vace fundata Altud altare constitui out Sacerdotium novum fieri praeter unum Altare unum Sacerdotium non potest Epist 40. pag. 59. St. Cyprian that there is One God one Christ one Church one Chair founded upon Peter by the word of Christ That the Church of Rome is (l) Post ista adhuc insuper Pseudo Episcopo sibi ab Haereticis Constitute navigare audent ad Petri Ca●bedram a●que ad Ecclefiam principalem unde unitas Sacerdotalis exoria est a Schismaticis profanis literas ferre nec cogitare cos esse Romanos quorum fides Apostolo praedicante laudata est ad quos persidia habere non possit accessum Epist 55. ad Cornelium pag. 95. the Chair of St. Peter the Principal Church from whence Priestly Vnity had its rise and that Perfidiousness can have no access to the Romans And that (m) Neque enim aliunde haereses obortae sunt aut nata sunt Schismata quam inde quod Sacerdoti Dei non obtemperatur Nee unus in Ecclesia ad tempus Sacerdos ad tempus judex vice Christi cogitratur cui si secundum magisteria divina obtemperaret fraternitas universa nemo discidio unita is Christi Ecclesiam scinderet Nemo sibi placens ac tumens seorsum foris haeresim novam conderet c. Ibid. pag. 90. Heresies and Schisms would never arise in the Church if the whole Fraternity paid obedience due to one Priest one Judge Christs Vice-gerent according to Divine Ordinances This for the Fathers §. 131. many more of whose Testimonies I might haye brought but that a Volume might be written of them As for the Antient Councils I shall name two or three of their expressions hoping the Defender will be as good as his word The Council of Nice according to the Arabian Canons plainly testifies that * Sicque praeest Patriarcha iis omnibus qui sub potestate e●us sunt sicut ille qui tenet sedem Romae caput est Princeps omnium Patriarcharum Quandoquidem ille est Primus sicut Petrus eui data est potestas in omnes Principes Christianos omnes populos corum ut qui sic vicariue Christi Domini nostri super cunctos populos cunctam Ecclesiam Christianam Et quicunque contradixerit a Synedo excommunicatur Bin. Tom. 1. Conc. f. 416. c. 1. C. Patriarchs are over Arch-Bishops and Bishops as the Pope is the head and Prince of all Patriarchs and calls him the Vicar of Christ over all People and the whole Christian Church and Excommunicates all those who shall contradict it And tho' this be not found amongst the ordinary Canons yet is it manifest that this Council did acknowledge not only a Primacy of Order but of Jurisdiction also For (a) See Bin. Tom. 8. Conc. pag. 715 c. 1. C. St Athanasius having found that the Arians had Corrupted all the Greek Copies of the Canons of that Council sent to Rome to obtain a true Copy of them And the Pope who was not willing to send him the Originals sent him Authentic Copies of such Canons as were necessary for his Defence amongst which Pope Liberius sent him one acknowledging the Privilege of Appeals to the See of Rome by which this Holy Father defended his cause against the Arian Synod of Antioch which had Excommunicated him and from whence he had appealed to the See of Rome And (b) Quas praevidentes Sancti Patres insidias illici●●s al ercationes unanimiter in praedida Nicena Statuerunt Synodo ut nullus Episcopus nisi in Legitima Synodo suo tempore Apostolica authoritate convocata super quibusdam criminationibus publisatus audiatur i. c. judicetur vel damnetur Sin aliter presumptum a quibusdam fuerit in vanum deducatur quod egerint nec inter Ecclesiastica ullo modo reputabitur Ipsi vero primae sedis Ecclesiae convocandarum generalium Synodorum jura judi●ia Episcoporum singulari privilegio Evangelicis Apostolicis atque Canonicis concessa sunt instnutis quia semper majores causae ad sedem Apostolicam mulis authoritatibus referri praecepta sunt Nec ullo modo potest major a minore judicari Ipsa namque omnibus major praelata est Ecclesiis quae non solummodo Canonum Sanctoram Patrum decretis sed Domini Salvatoris nostri vece singularem obtinuit Principatum Tu es inquit Petrus c. Et quaecunque ligaveris c. Porro du●um a Sanctis Apestolis successoribusque corum in praefatis antiquis decretum fuerat statutis quae hactenus Sancta universalis Apostolica tenet Ecclesia non oportere praeter sentemiam Romani Ponificis Concilia celebrari nec Episcopum damnari quoniam Sanctam Romanam Ecclesiam Primatem omium Ecclesiarum esse voluerunt Ein Tom. 1. Conc. pag. 475. c. 2. B. Pope Julius is thought to have Writ an increpatory Epistle to the Eastern Bishops shewing them from the Council of Nice That it belonged only to the Bishop of Rome to call a General Council and to Judge Bishops Neither were such Councils to be celebrated nor Bishops condemned without the Sentence of the Bishop of Rome That this Authority of the Roman See was not only granted by Evangelical Apostolical and Canonical Institutions but even by the voice of our Blessed Saviour himself and that this was a thing known from the Apostles times I doubt not but that our Defender as those of his party do usually in these cases will call the Authenticness of this Epistle in question but at least he cannot deny the second Apology of St. Athanasius nor that appeals were made long before this time to the See of Rome nor that the Council of (c) C●n. 3 4 5. Bin. Tem. 1. Conc. p. 527. Sardica whose Canons were sometimes cited for those of Nice as only seconding what had been there once confirmed allowed of them and appointed that in case of such Appeals no Bishop should be placed in the See of the deposed Bishop till the Pope had given Sentence which had