Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

SCKiPTURE AND THE FATHERS. 79
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self unjustly condemned, his judges shall ac-
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quaint the bishop of Rome, who may either
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confirm the first judgement, or appoint a re-
" examination of his case by some neighbour-
" ing bishops." Hosius of Corduba, who was
much attached to the See of Rome, requested
the Council to grant this privilege to the memory
of St. Peter. This every reader will allow
to be a notable tefstimony for the Pope's supremacy,
and must be very much surprised that the
R. should overlook it. But his neglect of it
was occasioned by its
connection with a number
of circumstances, with w^hich he found it
a little
delicate to intermeddle. As I am not under the
same restraint, I will present them to the
reader.
So far was the Pope's supremacy from being
an established doctrine in the church at this
time *, that before the Council of Sardica could
pass their decree, they were necessitated to revoke
the decisions of the Council of Antioch,
by which all appeals beyond the neighbouringprovinces
had been totally prohibited. After
all, it tended very little to advance the Pope's
authority ; for the decrees of this Council were
neither put into the code of the canons of the
universal church, approved by the Council of
Chalcedon, nor would the Eastern and African
bishops receive them. But the principal use to
which
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