Anti-Mortonus or An apology in defence of the Church of Rome. Against the grand imposture of Doctor Thomas Morton, Bishop of Durham. Whereto is added in the chapter XXXIII. An answere to his late sermon printed, and preached before His Maiesty in the cathedrall church of the same citty..
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Anti-Mortonus or An apology in defence of the Church of Rome. Against the grand imposture of Doctor Thomas Morton, Bishop of Durham. Whereto is added in the chapter XXXIII. An answere to his late sermon printed, and preached before His Maiesty in the cathedrall church of the same citty..
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Price, John, 1576-1645.
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[St. Omer :: English College Press] Permissu Superiorum,,
M.DC.XL. [1640].
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Morton, Thomas, 1564-1659. -- Grand imposture of the (now) Church of Rome.
Catholic Church -- Apologetic works -- Early works to 1800.
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"Anti-Mortonus or An apology in defence of the Church of Rome. Against the grand imposture of Doctor Thomas Morton, Bishop of Durham. Whereto is added in the chapter XXXIII. An answere to his late sermon printed, and preached before His Maiesty in the cathedrall church of the same citty.." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/B07998.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 8, 2024.
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SECT. III. Of the ordination of the Bishops of Cyprus, treated in the Councell of Ephesus.
BVt there remaines one, which you(p) call, A principall obiection, and it is, that wheras Reginus, Zenon and E∣uagrius Bishops of Cyprus had by a petition presented to the Councell of Ephesus made complaint of the Patriarke of Antioch(q), That contrary to the ancient custome practised from the tyme of the Apostles, and contrary to the Canons of Nice, he had presumed to ordeyne Bishops in that Iland; the Councell decreed,(r) that, no Bishop should encroath vpon the liberties of any other, nor draw vnder his subiection any Prouince, which belonged not to him from the beginning: and therfore, that if the ancient custome were not, for the Bishop of Antioch, to ordaine Bishops in Cyprus, he should not trouble the Bishops of that Iland, but leaue to them the or∣dination
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of their owne Bishops. This Decree you will haue to exclude the authority of the B. of Rome, as well as of any other. But your Argument is of no force: both because nei∣ther this Canon, nor any other of what Councell soeuer, is powerfull to limit his authority, nor hath force further then it is confirmed by him, as hath bene proued; as also be∣cause he is not only Bishop of the Roman Dioces in parti∣cular, but of the vniuersall Church. Other Bishops (sayth S. Bernard)(s), according to the Canons, are called to a part of solici∣tude; he to the fullnesse of power: the power of other Bishops is confi∣ned to certaine limits; his is extended also to them that haue recea∣ued power ouer others. He, if there because can shut Heauen to a Bi∣shop, and depose him from his Bishoprick. He, can erect new Bisho∣pricks(t)where they were not? He, of Bishopes, can make Archbishops, and contrarywise of Archbishops, Bishops, if reason so dictate vnto him. Wherfore albeit as considered in the quality of a parti∣cular Bishop of the Roman Dioces, he cannot ordaine Bi∣shops out of that Dioces, more then other Bishops can out of theirs, yet as he is Pastor, and Bishop of the vniuersall Church, he can depose and ordaine Bishops in other Dio∣ceses, as Agapet deposed Anthymus Patriarke of Constan∣tinople, and ordeyned Menas in his place. And the Eccle∣siasticall histories are full of examples of the same nature: which therfore conuince, that the Councell of Ephesus by that decree intended not to prescribe any limits of iurisdi∣ction to the Pope, but only to command all particular Bi∣shops not to entrench vpon the liberties of others: which decree Celestine Pope confirmed with all the rest of that Councell(u), as no way contrary to his Vniuersall autho∣rity.