Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

SCRIPTURE AND THE FATHERS. 57
Of both, he has given the following account
in his Ecclesiastical History :
" Let the ancient
custom be preserved in Alexandria,
city of Rome ;
as in the
that the Bishop of Egypt, like
the Bishop of Rome, have the care of the
" suburbicary cUurches *."
This testimony of Rufinus the R. has thought
fit to overlook entirelv ; but to shovi^ that he has
given the genuine meaning of the canon,
he appeals
to the Council of Chalcedon, where he
thinks a complete confirmation of it may be
found "
; The commencement of this canon of
the .Council of Nice," says he, " does not
appear in printed books ; but 'tis given by a
Council of equal authority, that of Chalcedon,
in 451. 'Tis thus cited in the 16th
action by the Bishop Paschasius :
Church had always this primacy.
custom continue^
The Roman
Let the old
that the Bishop of Alexandria^
**
&c. After this 6th canon of the Council of
" Nice was read, the judges said ; We consider
"•'
that all primacy and chief honour according
'^
the canons he reserved to the beloved of God^
" the Archbishop of old Rome f."
The R. must have judged his readers very
ignorant of Church-history indeed, when he
ventured even to mention the Council
to
of Chalcedon.
When he said, that the canon was cited
in this form by Paschasius,
why did he not add,
that
* Lib. I. c. 6.
f
P. 192.