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A02608	A sermon preached before the Kings Most Excellent Maiestie in the Church of Beauly in Hampshire, the thirtieth of Iuly. M.DC.IX. By Christopher Hampton, Doctor in Diuinitie, and one of his Ma[jes]ties chapleines.	Hampton, Christopher, 1552-1625.	1620 (1620)	STC 12738; ESTC S120498	29,853	115

Circuites Precincts appointed in such sort as one of them should not meddle within anothers Iurisdiction to confound their authorities The cause why the Fathers assembled in Councell gaue the first place to the See of olde Rome was not for that either Christ or his Apostle Peter had so appointed but that the Citie of Rome was the most noble Citie and of greatest renowne in all the World as appeareth in the Councell of Calcedon which writeth That the Fathers in the Councell of Nice did worthily giue the chiefetie to the See of olde Rome because that Citie had the Soueraignetie ouer others Saint Ambrose speaking of himselfe and other Bishops which were at the Councell of Aquileia saith thus Wee are met together at Aquileia by the commaundement of the Emperour About the yeare of our Lord. 383 In the Councell of Constantinople the Bishops wrote thus vnto Theodosius the Emperour Wee are come to Constantinople by your Maiesties Commission And afterward at the end of that Councell We beseech your Maiestie that as you haue honoured the Church by your Letters wherewith you haue called vs together so it may please you to Confirme the finall Conclusion of our Decrees with your sentence and with your Seale About 420 To the Councell of Carthage where S. Augustine was present Sozimus B. of Rome sendeth Legats Faustinus Philippus and Asellus in fauour of Apiarius a Priest that fled to Rome for ayde against Vrbanus his Diocesan who had depriued him both of his function the Cōmunion for his lewdnesse To these Legates the Pope gaue charge to claime this Priuiledge for him his See That if anie Bishoppes were accused or deposed which appealed to Rome the Bishoppe of Rome might eyther write to the next Prouince to determine the matter or send some to represent his Person and to sit in iudgement with the Bishoppes And to proue his desire lawfull he alleaged in writing vnder his hand a Canon of the Councell of Nice tending to that purpose The godly Fathers assembling themselues out of all Affricke to the number of 217 finding no such Canon in their Bookes either Greeke or Latin writ to the Patriaches of Alexandria Constantinople Antioch for true and authenticke Copies of the Nicene Councell finding their owne Copies agree word for word with those that were brought and no such prerogatiue to bee seene in anie Canon there First by their Decree they cut off all appeales to Rome viz. That Priests Deacons and inferior Clerkes if they complained of the iudgement of their Diocesians should be heard by the Bishops adioyning and if they thinke to appeale from them also let them not appeale but to the Councells of Africa or to the Primates of their owne Prouince and hee that aduentureth to appeale ouer the Sea let him be receiued of no man within Africa vnto the Communion After this Decree with which they had withstood three Bishops of Rome Sozimus Boniface and Celestinus to the last when the Bishops of Affrica had gotten Copies of the Nicene Councell they writ on this wise Wee writ earnestly prayed you that hereafter you would not lightly giue audience to those that come from hence to you neither any more receiue such to the Communion as wee haue excommunicated because your Reuerence shall easily perceiue the order taken by the Nicene Councell For if there appeare a prouiso for inferior Clerks or Laymen how much more would the Synode haue the same obserued in Bishops that being excommunicated in their owne Prouince they should not sodainely hastily or vnduly be restored to the Communion by your holinesse And likewise your holynesse must repell these wicked refuges of Priests and other Cleargie men as becommeth you for that by no determination of the Fathers this is derogated from the Church of Africa and the Nicene Canons doe most euidently commit both inferior Clergie men and the Bishops themselues to their owne Metropolitans No doubt they most wisely and rightly prouided that all matters should bee ended in the places where they did first arise Neither will the graces of the Holy Ghost bee wanting to any Prouince by which equitie may bee grauely weighed and stoutly followed by the Priests of Christ especially where euerie man hath libertie if he mislike the iudgement of those that heare his cause to appeale to the iudgement of his own Prouince or to a generall Councell Or how can the iudgements ouer Seas bee good whereto the necessary persons of witnesses either for sexe or for age or sundrie other impediments cannot be brought For that any should bee sent from your Holinesse side wee finde decreed by no Synod of the Fathers That which you sent vs hither by Faustinus as a part of the Nicene Councell in the truer Copies which wee haue receiued from holy Cirill B. of Alexandria and Reuerend Atticus Bishop of Constantinople taken out of the Originalls which also we sent to Boniface your predecessor Jn them we say we could finde no such thing As for your Agents or Messengers send them not at euery mans request least wee seeme to bring the smokie pride of the world into the Church of Christ c. Marke how many wayes the Bishops of Affrica withstood the Bishop of Rome Appeales to Rome which Sozimus claimed by the Councell of Nice they cōfute by the same Councell impugne them by other graue pithie reasons Legates à latere they reiect as neuer spoken of in any Coūcell though hee claimed them Running to Rome they call a wicked refuge and sending Messengers from Rome a smokie pride of the World The corrupting of the Nicene Canons by Sozimus they disproue by Copies that were true authenticke Appiarius whom the B. of Rome had harboured to the Church the second time they banished from the Church of Christ What would those men haue done if Sozimus had claimed to be head of the Church or Vice-God vpon Earth by Christs appointment If any Scripture had sounded that way neither the B. of Rome would haue left that certaine proofe trusted only to the testimonie of a Canon in a Councell which could not bee found but in his owne Librarie nor yet Augustine with his holy learned companie would haue resisted this demaund if it had either been grounded vpon Scripture or determined in the Nicene or other Councell or had stood with equitie good order or reason So the Church of Affrica continued vntill Boniface the second came to bee Bishop of Rome Hee by communications threatnings and allurements brought Eulalius the. Metropolitane of Carthage certaine other Bishops of Affrica to submit themselues to the Bishop of Rome and to anathematise the sixt Councell of Carthage where S. Augustine was present A.D. 440 Polychronius Bishop of Jerusalem would haue had his See first greatest because it was the holy Citie which God had chosen of olde because Christ taught there suffered there rose againe there gaue the Holy Ghost there Peter