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—CONTENTS.BOOK I.HISTORY OF THP: PAPACY.CHAPTER I.ORIGIN OF THE PAPACY.Extent of the Subject.—State of the Greek, Roman, aud JewishWorlds.—Materializing Influences.—^^Danger to Christianity therefrom.—Transitionfrom the Symbolic to the Spiritual.— Inabilityof the World to make the Transition in one Age.— <strong>The</strong>ory of HumanProgress.—Tendency to a Revival of the Old Paganisms.<strong>The</strong> Magian, the Greek, the Roman Idolatries unite under a ChristianForm.—Popery revived PaganismICHAPTER ir.RISE AND PROGRESS OF ECCLESIASTICAL SUPREMACY.Original Equality of Pastors.—Rome gives Pre-eminence to her Pastor.—ProvincialCouncils.— Church <strong>and</strong> State assimilated in FourthCentury.—Rise of ^Metropolitans.^—<strong>The</strong> Four Patriarchs.— Incorporation<strong>and</strong> Co-ordination.—Reference of Disputes to Rome.—GrowingSuperstition.— Edict of Valentinian II. gives the Roman BishopSupremacy over the Western Clergy.—Code of Justinian.—Edictof Phocas, AD. G06.—Dextrous Policy of Popes.— Fall of the WesternEmpire.—Claim of Popes to be Christ's "Vicar.—<strong>The</strong> Admissionof this Claim consolidates the Supremacy 15

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