An Ecclesiastical History of Great Britain, Chiefly of England (Volume 7); From the First Planting of Christianity, to the End of the Reign of King Charles the Second with a Brief Account of the Affairs of Religion in Ireland (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos or missing text. Not indexed. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1846. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... Oonstantine the Great his son, Jovian, Mareian, and Justi-Eli2anian, mention him with great regard, and without the least---t--'- abatement. Now this would scarcely have been done, had veteram8' he abetted any ecclesiastic encroachment upon the crown. t"a8 But to argue in defence of the learned bishop and famous Athanas. confessor Athanasius, would be an injury to his memory, and a very unnecessary undertaking. St. Hilary, an eminent prelate and confessor, in his address to the emperor Constantius, speaks to the same meaning and plainness with St. Hjlar Lib Athanasius. ad Constant. To proceed: the emperor Marcian delivered in three Several articles to the general council of Chalcedon, to be passed deSaraiUmt into canons. He declares he reserved these points to be "osi settled by them, thinking it much more proper they should in the discibe decreed by the council, than established by a civil sanc-iafarh.'Ae tion. This draught was passed into canons, but not in the chafced. same form drawn up by his majesty. Thus, though the Act-6emperor observed some instances of misbehaviour in the monks and clergy, which required discipline, yet he thought it too much to make a provision himself, but left the correction to the synod, as being the proper seat of authority for these matters. This council affords another remarkable instance: for here in the case of Photius, metropolitan of Tyre, it is determined by the synod, that the imperial rescript is of no force against the canons: and yet this case related only to a contest of jurisdiction between a metropolitan and one of his provincial bishops. And which is further observable, the emperor's rescript carried the whole authority of the civil legislature; for neither the nobility nor the commons had any share in ...