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pearcho ver displuasing this sit uation a to Gregory. Forti frequently complains, that unde the nam Ofie in alis op, he was force back to the worid, and that he was more involve in secula cares than verme had been hil he was a layman so that in that horioia he was oppressed illi tha
an aster In forme season os retirement and tranquilli ty, Pamdisquieto with the tempests of a tumultuoui se so that Ima trul say, am come in to the depili of the ea, and thotem pes has rowne me. V Judge, then, hat he ould have
considore himsol to se in a labyrinth, ecause ho could notwholi devote himself to the exclusive duties of a bishop. XIV. Tho bishos o Constantinople, as e have alaeady Stated, M at that time en gage in a contest illi ho bishopos Rome respecting the primacy. FO aster the seat of the empire a fixed a Constantinopte the majeSty of the overn-men Seemessit require that Church to e the nox in dignit tolli Church o Romo. An indeod a the eginning nothingcontribute more to esta listi the primae in the Churchis Romethan the circumstance of that cit be in thon the capital of the
empire. Gratian recites a rescript unde the nam os Pope Lucinus, in hicli e says that the distinctionis cities appotritudio e the residen eis metropolitans an primates, a regulated by no ther rule than the natur of the civil)Overrimen previ-oiasty establishod in them There is unother Simila rescript , also, unde the nam os ope Clement in hicli ho says that patriarchilia been appotnte in thos citios,hichiad anciently
been the stations os arch-flamens. Thi statement though erroneora S, approuehe to the truth. For it is certain that inorde to alio ac tile hunge a possibie, the provinces eredivided accordin to the existin state of things, and that primates and metropolitans ere placed in hos citius hichlia precede ce of the est in dignit and OWer Theres ore, in tho ounci o Turin, it a decreed that hos Whicli,ereth chios cities of the rospective provinces in the eivi govern-ment, hould e the principa sees os bisnops and that i thehonour of tho civit overtament holit happen to e transferred Domine cit to another, the eat of the metropolitan hould be
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remoVed to the fame lae e. ut Innocent, the Roman pontississe in the ancient dignit os his it be ginning to decline, after the translation of the seat os the empire t Constantinople, and tronabling so the hono ur of his See, nactexu contrar lam; in hichi dentes the necessit O a change of the eccle Siastica capitals in consequence of a Chunge of the imperia cupital s. Hut the authorit os a counci ought tot preseri sed to the Sentenco os an individual, and we a justi suspeet Innocenthimsel in his Wii cause . e proves by hi decree, hoWeVer, that tho origina regulation had been or the Spat os metropotitans o b dispose accordin to the civit rank of the respec
XV. Accordin to this ancient ordinance, it a decree in the rs Counci of Constantinopte that the bis opis that ityshould avo the nox rank and dignit to the bis op of Rome,
lli various circumstances of disserent periods It is a sutilo pre-tence, heres ore, o Leo that he honour, hicli the aut hori tyo tho Niceno counci ha givon to the se of AleXandria, ought no toto cons rred ii that os Constantinople. For Ommon Sense dictatos that his a suci a decremus might be abolis edaceordin to the tute of the times. An besides the repealmet illi no opposition rom the bishops of the East, homere mos interested in the niter. Proterius, ho ad been appotnted bishopos Alexandria instead of DioSCOruS, RS preSent; RS ere ther patriarchs, hoSe dignit was essene by this mensure. It was for them to Oppos it an no Leo, ho re-tainodiis original station una vered. Whon the ad susterod itto pas Without an objection, an even SSente i it, and the bis os os Rome a the only one ho resisto it it is eas to ullgo by What motive he was influenced. e foresam, What actuali carne to passio long uster, that a the lor OfROme a declining Constantinopi Woial not e content illi
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by havin the se os Rome investe mitti jurisdictionisve the
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Pepin hould avo the tempora and civi fovereigni aster the deposition of tho rightsul monarch, and that Zachar should bo ad tho head ovo alliis ops, and onjoy the SpiritualiΟWer. At sirst this ais oblo, ascis generali the case illi ne establishments ut it asinisterward confirmed by tho authorit os Chartemagne, an utinOS 1 romin simila cauS forte also asindobtod to tho Roman pontiis soriis exortions inanis in him Othe dignit os inporor. O , though it is probabi that the Chiarches, bes ore that time, liud in genera boon greatly diSfigured, it is ovident that in Franco and Germany the ancient forni filio Church a then entire ly obliter ted. The archive Ostho parti amentis Paris stili containiries register of thos times, Whieli, in relatin ecclesiastica evenis, mali frequent mentionos the troatius both o Popin an Chartemagno illi the Roman pontiis frona hicli it a b conclude that an auerationWas then made in the anciunt state of tho Church. XVIII. Froni that time, a things atly beeam mors and WorSe the tyrann os the Roman sue a graduali establishedan increased, and that parti through tho ignorance, and parilythrough tho indolence of the bishops. For hile the Roman pontiis a usurpin every thin to imself, and proceed ingsrom ne assumption to another, ithout an limits in definiiceos la and justico the bis ops didiot Xert themsolves Withthe eat hichiocum them to repres his cupidity, and Wherethere a no an os inclination the were destitute os reallear in undanowledge so that the wer novat alboquat to Suchan important underint ing. e see, heres re, Whatin horribie profanation os every thin sacred, and what a tota disorgani gationo tho Church there a ut Rome in the days of ornard. Hecomplain that the ambitious, the Variolous, the Simoniacat, the Sacrilegious, the adulterous, the incestuous, an nil hoWere Chargeable illi the mos utroci ous crimeS, rom Very par of the orto, resortexto Rome in orde to procure or Oretain ecclesiastica honours by the apostolicat authorityri and that fraud circumvention und violenee, Were generali practi Sed. II says that tho judicia proces Whicli us then purSuedWas Xecrabie, an no only unbecoming of the Church, ut disgrauesulci an civi eouri. e Xclainis that tho Churchis sui os ambitious men, and that here is no One hoci any more frat Os perpetratin the mos sagitious erimes, han
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lino into hat Sorro an lamentation ut good men ereplimged by this calamity. XIX. ut though, should grant to tho Roman pontiis in
the present da tho fame eminenc alid extent of jurisdictionWhic this seu possesse in humid diu ages, as in the times os Leo an Gregory, What is that to the apae in iis presentstate am not et resurring to tho tempora an secular pomer, hieli me hal asterWard examine incit pro per place but the spiritual ovornmon itsolsis hic 'ho boast, halresemblanco has it to the condition os hos timem For huRomanisis designate the ope no ther viS than salie Supremehead of the Churchin arth, and univorsal bisnop of tho holemorid. An the pontim themsolves, heia tho spuak of their authority, prono unce illi reat Superciliousness, that theyliave tho powerrio commanu, and that to theriis ni tost thenecessit to obo ; that at thoi do reus are to e receivo usi the were confirmo by the voice os t. eter that OrWant of thei preserico, provincia Synod have no authority;
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that he have the o Nero ordain priosis alid deacon sor allthe Chiarches, anxio summon to thei se those ho have beenelseWhero orda in ed. In the Decreta os Gratian here aro innumerable pro tonsions of this ind whicho sorbear o recito, testo fhould o to tediolis to m readers. ut the Sum os them ali comos to this that tho Roman pontis alone has tho Supreme Ogni Zanc os ali ecclesiasticat causes, huther in jud gin and determining doctrines, in enaetin laWS, in regulatin disciplino, or in exercisin jurisdiction. It would also be tedious an superfluous to enumerate the privileges hic lithe assume to themselves in reservations a the callo hem. But halcis the mos intolerable os ali, the loavem judgmenton artho cur o restrain thei cupidity, i the abus such unlimited poWer. Hi annot e lawsul, ' the Say so any one o Hoc the judgment of this see, on account of the pri
it i Ver certain that very thing, hicli attributes to tho Roman pontiis more than we have state to have been gi ven him by the ancient counciis, is a nove an recent fabrication. The have even gone to such u pitch os impudencem to publiSh a rescript undo tho nam os Anastasius, patriarch of On- Stantinople, hici declares that it ad son ordaine by the ancient canons that noth in Should bo done even in the remoteSt provinces, ithout be in firs reporte to the Roman See. Beside the notorious salsohood os this, hat an illthini it crudi ble, that uel a seu logium solio Roma see proceeded rom the adversar an rival oscit honou and digni ty But it a necessar that hos Antichrist should beearrie to Such an extrum os madnes and lindness, that heir iniquit ma be evident to ali mei os found understanding,
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appreciated. Hene proceede those samous axioms, hicli atthe present da are Universali received by them a oracles That the Ope anno err that the ope is Superior o ali
the mos able advocate os the Roman See anSWer me, illi
What face tho cari dare o defund the ille os et niversa bishos, whichahey findas have buun so osten anathematized by Gregory. I the testimon os Gregoryte entillexto any credit, the cannot malle thei pontiis universa bis io Without therub declar- in him o b Antichrist. o was the ille os hea an more in us at that time in ne of his episties h says, teteris the principat member in tho Ody Jolin, Andrem, and
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os tho sua. Is the administrationis that age a a Sen, What must se sui os tho Papae in iis present states Foroliat resemblance is thure bet Neen them Here, findla Sermons preached, no attention to diScipline, no concern foruli Chur hos, ii spiritua function performex in a Word, nothing ut themorid. et his labyrinth is pratsed, a though noth in coiildbe ound bello constitu ted or et ter administered. Whut Complaint are potired ut by Hornarit, hut lamentations ops
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reprobaten, illi ne voice, ut also to abus thei testimon in vindication of tho Papacy, hicli it is evident a Ulteri un-known to them In the time os ornard hoWever consessthe corruption res o grent that there a n great disserenoebet Neen that age and the present; ut hos Who adduce any pleasor the existin statu of things froni the time o Leo, Gregory, and thurs in that id die period musti destituto os allisliame. This conduci resembles that of any one, lio, o Vindicate themonarchy f the Roman emperors Should commend the ancient State of the Roman overtiment hicli ould e no therthan borrowing the pratSe os tiberi to adorn a SyStem Of
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e With tho first, is to administer tho sacrament the third is