A new history of ecclesiastical writers containing an account of the authors of the several books of the Old and New Testament, of the lives and writings of the primitive fathers, an abridgement and catalogue of their works ... also a compendious history of the councils, with chronological tables of the whole / written in French by Lewis Ellies du Pin.

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Title: A new history of ecclesiastical writers containing an account of the authors of the several books of the Old and New Testament, of the lives and writings of the primitive fathers, an abridgement and catalogue of their works ... also a compendious history of the councils, with chronological tables of the whole / written in French by Lewis Ellies du Pin.
Author: Du Pin, Louis Ellies, 1657-1719.
Publication: London :: Printed for Abel Swalle and Tim. Thilbe ...,; MDCXCIII [1693]
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Of the Primacy and Rights of the Bishop of Rome.

THe Holy See, according to St. Gregory, does not use its Authority, but only to punish Vice: Thus all the Bishops are subject to it, from the very moment that they commit any Fault; but Humility makes all the Bishops e ual, when there is no Fault which obliges the Holy See to exercise its Authority, B. 7. Ind. 11. Ep. 65.

The Primacy of the Pope gives him no Right to reverse the ancient Canons, nor the Priviledges and Rights of other Bishops, B. 2. Ep. 37. These following are his own words, Absit ut Statuta Majorum, à Consacerdotibus meis in qualibet Ecclesia infringam, quia mihi injuriam facio, si fratrum meorum jura perturbo. De Ecclesiasticis vero Privilegiis, hoc vestra fraternitas, post habita dubitatione, teneat, quia sicut nostra defendimus, ita singulis quibusque Ecclesiis, sua jura servamus: i. e. God forbid that I should infringe the Decrees of our Ancestors made by our Fellow-Bishops in any Church, for I do my self an Injury if I disturb the Rights of my Brethren: And as to Ecclesiastical Priviledges you may firm∣ly believe, Brother, without the least doubt, that as we defend our own, so we reserve to every Church their own Rights.

The Bishops of Rome refus'd to take upon them the Title of Universal Patriarch of the Church, which was given them by the Council of Chalcedon, lest they should seem to encroach upon the Rights of other Bishops, B. 4. Ep. 32. B. 7. Ind. 1. Ep. 30.

St. Gregory wrote to Eulogius the Patriarch of Alexandria, who had acquainted him with what he had commanded him; that he should not any more use this term of Commanding, for he knew (says Gregory to him) what it meant, and what was meant by his Brethren, that they were his Brethren by their Dignity, and his Fathers by their merit, B. 7. Ind. 1. Ep. 30.