Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

56 POPERY CONDEMNED BY
" bishop of Rome." From these words, an
impartial reader would conclude, that the custom
of the Romish Church was adopted by the
Council as a pattern by which the other Sees
ought to be regulated.
But the R. says, " These
" words can bear no other sense but this, that
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'twas the custom of the Bishop of Rome to
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invest the Bishop of Alexandria with a juris-
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diction over these provinces *." The following
words of the canon sufficiently illustrate
the
absurdity of this explanation. It is there added,
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that the honour or rights of the Church of
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Antioch and the other provinces, are likewise
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to be preserved ; it being always understood,
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that these do not interfere with the privileges
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of the metropolitan bishop." Will the R.
then inform us, if it was the custom of the bishop
of Rome to share his authority with these
also ; and how the Council, in fixing the privileges
of these churches, secured the rights of
metropolitan bishops,
extensive supremacy
without hinting at a more
Perhaps he does not know, that his sense of
this canon is opposed by the Fathers. I will,
therefore, introduce him to Rufinus, an Italian
clergyman, who lived a short time after the
Council of Nice, and therefore ought to know
both the meaning of this canon,
and the ancient
practice of the Church of Rome, as well as the R.
Of
* P. 192.