Jesuit Juggling; Forty Popish Frauds Detected and Disclosed (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1835 edition. Excerpt: ... that it was not appeals to Rome, but a troublesome manner of trial that the council was against: and tell men that take him for infallible, of a Nicene canon for the pope's supremacy and monarchy: and persuade idiots and dotards that the catholic church in the fourth and fifth ages was for the universal government of the pope. The first Constantinople council, saith Tuberville, decreed the bishop of Constantinople to be chief next the bishop of Rome. Then that primacy was but the institution of councils. It was grounded on a secular reason; for so saith the canon, because it is new Rome. The pope's primacy was but honorary, and gave him no universal government; for the primacy here granted to Constantinople, gave them no government over Alexandria, Antioch, &c. And the second canon expressly limits all bishops without exception to their own diocess. The third canon affirmed, that according to the Nicene council, .in every province the provincial council ought to administer and govern all things. See how clearly the succession of the Roman monarchy is disproved to that time. The next proof is from the third act of the first council of Ephesus, that Peter yet lives and exercises judg- tnent in his successors. The words, that Peter was the head of the apostles, though nothing to their purpose, are neither spoken nor approved by the council, but only by Celestine's legate. The council, though specially moved by his concurrence to extol Celestine to the highest, yet never spake a word of his governing power or sovereignty, but only his consent: and when they mention the Roman church, it is only their consent which they predicate. They extol Cyril equally with Celestine. Binius, Tom. 2. Cap. 15. The next witness brought is the council of..