Daily national Republican. (Washington City [D.C.]) 1870-1872, 1870-03-04

sntsnee Of Deposition, aftor the reception
4 Oslsatine's letter ooueuttlna VIVA we y. Nv
,e,oostTsined 81 the idered eaRoAt, and by the
.nIs,io Of our most holy father aud yehop n'at
iisr, oslss,ias, hi'hsp 81 ne SaI nStreSs
" the Roman lagAtet on the eve Of their de-
partufe Tor the council, alluding 70 Al ,
,alls him "our brother Ana roeliAyg .io.fins
which Hrat nhuenced the fathers 70 pronouIub e ,
hat sentence upon NeatnTius, but u a sftere
authority Of ,iAs Iaeysd Sa" SsS cone, out Of
.oa S,c,v' out Of defereaee 10 me Person
diEnity Of the Bishop Of Rome my ~ SFn5si
-. 'c.I,,,ia3U Se So that II prove. nothing
y hsisVsr Tor The proud usutp,nE elalm oi the
Romi.h see as hs,l iSb b. he m,nIsSsrs and
~ nbeTs Of that communion
R1t there vas likewise the Council Of NIL
vi, A. ID. go, = ptoyinolNl council OF flx,y
NJ Doctor seeks to obtain some comfort for
another Of his Witnesses, poor St AuSuatine,
sho was present here and wrote 70 lnnoesnt
1 then Bishop Of Rome, couple OF letters OK
tressinE the hope that the various hetesiea
night be oftlnguiohcd, aud that the bishop
" Rome would Do what he could 90 Ut IS NE
,uppreas them. To these letters Innooent
N ade = reply eontaiuing tho sentiment OF the
council held TOT that purpose AZ h2Rs, a ,Sa
decisions OF the African Douueil had been
oonoufrsd In, and Augustine further declares
that the cause IL decided, and be hopes tue
trouble viii nov be at an end" But, Of course
avery one Gao see that n WAS custom and cOuf. |
tesY which established this kind OF oorrespon. |
deuce between the liGtteat churches 10 Eu. |
rome. Africa and Asia, and that the binding |
odioiAl authority was 10 the DEGREES OF the
councils, and not In the mere advice OF con-
curTenee OF Individual bishops, whslher o.
Rome, Of Antioch, or Of Carthage. but the
Dootor has referred ua TO one more council 90
which he seems TO dwell with peculiar plea
sutc-thAt is the great pou3eh Of Ohalsedon'
He tells US that the Pope'I legates were again
on hAnd for president OF the eounell, and that
when the letter OF Leo the Great, thea bishop
OF Roue, was read, all the fathers cried out,
"thM IL the orthodox creed Peter has spoken
BY the mouth OF Leo" And from this little
eestAey Of the Holy Fathers, a. well sIiron =
atil further bow OF courtesy TO the bishop OF
Rome speaking of him As their father, and OF
sAnouoh wnAT they hAd uegttszi5 ttrs- NV, I7
readily inisTs that they really Intended 20 &C,
knowledge, and did thereby Acknowledge thNi
he had "superior authority over them" and
this he thinks ought to be the conclusion Of
Nov, then, as an Offset to this graceful
ebullition OF feeling, and TO tho sentiments
toward the bishop Of Rome, which the eOun
oil so enthusiastically declare, let US look at 4
passing scene which waa witnessed ia one oil
the sessions OF that assembly. Ga the 5itt Of
October, In their fifteenth session, they pub
ushed twenty-eight canOna, The last OF the
twsnty-eigh gives recital and an order TO this
oheot-thAt the fathers properly gave the pti-
macy to the throne Of the elder Rome, because
that was the imperial city, aud we, following
10 all things the deciaious OF the holy fathers,
do also determine and decree the same things
FespeetinE the privileges OF the most holy city
Of Oonstantinuple, the new Rome, judging
with reason that the city honoIed win the
sovereignty And the senate ADD which enjoyed
equal privileges with the elder royal Rome,
should also be magnincd like her 10 ecelcsias.
teal matters when this last canon was car.
rIed the Roman legAtes refused TO be present,
bishops aligned the canon and the imperial
oficers pronounced the deeilion that II must
stand. Leo, the bishop of Rome, constantly
opposed II, bat in spite Of hts opposition and
that Of his successors the canon remained and
was executed. tFoT all these facts sec Manual
Of Councils, BY Rev. Z, Il LNndon, OF Gam
bridge. London edition, isl5, uudsr the titles
OF the several eounoilsl
And to theAe trAnaAetions we may perhaps
Be Psr%itisd 70 a1d two OF ts5ss other facts
he represents. The nrst IL that Mt the Coun-
ell ofNiee the Only person Known By the on.
GA a ii ES9 s,sd ,RS aPS aPee OF Of Alex
a1driA." The title Of Pope OF Rome" had
not yet become known to history. tStauley's
aSoty SsSn SSo Of i 3D. wht1ss n HGs
uluStrious witueasSs-the very man that had
such high appreciation Of eounclls-the WY
OF UonstGntinople by the eouneiI OF A. d. ISL,
showing the relative rank OF the Churches IN
his day, said The head Of the AleNaniriSn
Church IL the head OF the world" (Staulcy,
p. S2s.) Nov, this 10 really pretty wi'neis
Tor the reverend Doctors cause, after he had
gone and bFaced him up so nicely. Ho appears
TO DO so porVerae and obatinNte that when
they want him to come forward and speak up
for the primaey Of the Roman See, he turns
right about and declares that the Church Of
Alexandria In the head Of all, And there ~
aill = third fact. There 10 another Gregory
hundred times worse than this Gregory, so
far as ne bear. testimony upon The subject Of
10 Gregory the Great. now Ieekoued by thC
RomAniata IN the succession OF their aoye
reign Pontiffs, and assigned to the year A. d
$50 nubaRQugut To this latest al
the councils adduced by DT. White.
This Gregory wrote a letter TO John, then
Of "BniSer'sI BiISop, Which JoRS hsd I'I sS
boldly assumed. That letter we venture to
dootrine as any that can be fDuud-and this,
too, from the bishop Of Rome himself-from
the very Identical successor OF those ao.calIGd
Popos-Sylvester, Liberius, Damascus, IunO-
cent, Oelestine aud Leo the Great, to whom IL
10 alleged these respective councils wrote lie.
macy asss Of the Roman See. Ini fS' non "a MAJ "a
who was thea at the very time the incumbent
the one man in all Christendom who was
Interested In affirming, u he could have done
so with any truth whatever, that the title Of
bishop o. Rome. But instead OF this what
does he say tSes OPP, Paris edition, l7U5,
VIOLA, p. In-2.l "By what audaeity do you
presume to seize on new title which M aY
soAndaIize all the br0thronI' DO not consent
to be decorated by this lofty yet ridiculous
ILL., 9S ibs Sss ,9Sg ihH * this
10 troubled "You will become greater II
you reject the g'GrPS,ion Of atitle at oaec
maintains concord between ali the brethfeS
And the unity of the holy universal Church "
"And what are your brethren, the bishops Of
the universal Church, hut atArs Of hcSyeii"
"In desiring to place yourself above hem by
lofty title, what else do you say than viii
mount up to heAyenin "Peter, the tirst OF The
apostles, and a member Of the holy unIversal
Church, Paul, Andrew, John, what we're they
but heads OF Individual churches, neYsFthe-
less they were al members OF the Church
under one single HsAd.n "And TO sum up ali
Ia few words, the saints before the law, tho
saints under the law, the Eaints under grace
all have contributed to form the kingdom OF
the Lord, have been established members of
me Church, and not one OF them has ever
sought to call himself univrrtal," Let your
Hollnsss Acknowledge how far you have been
S.s4S ssH y s When no s Psly
holy man hiss ever had tho presumption To
day Of IudEment TO come, you who aspire 10
be called In this world not ouly Pope tFathuD
but uaipsrsaI PoPe" ReTress this per.
ndIouS suggestion" "Beho!d, on account OF
this o,tentStious and criminal title the Church
10 diylded.n "And you, you would snatch f1r
yourself alone al honor which belongs to aIIlt
"But Notwithstanding all the affection bear
you, cannot place you, You nor any one
Whatsoever, above the preeepts OF the gospel,
the Institutions Of the councils and the 10.
Now, then, can anything be more oouelu.
aiVe to show that even among the bishops OF
Rome AT inst time the idea OF oue man any
where 10 the Church assuming to be "unfpfT.
sal Pope" was not only Tcpudinted but de-
nounoed 10 the most solemn And seathing
teFmst Thus, having reviewed the whole
ground over which the reverend Doctor has
been pleased to travel Ia order 10 uphold hIs
Witnesses and substantiAte hiI Romish claim,
We see the melancholy fNiluTo he has m4dei
and In our confederation for his misfuTtune
We commend to him the wholesome eounIeI
OF Jerome aud Gregory while Illuminating On
the merits OF his fAyofite tradition.
THH VICTIM or AsToEIsuMENT.
But now como to tina portion OF the Dgc-
tors lecture which PROCESSES 20 treat OF
Peters presence at Rome, which INCLUDES
paragraphs 81 to 81. 10 view " his de.iIns
with this branch OF the question, Il Ia ditisuH
to say which Of the two pTedOmtnAtcs-tHe
sublime impudenoe Of the Ecalnt nr the childish
simplicity OF the mnn. | think we Hhall And
upon Inspection, that both are well DISPLAYED
He approaches the topic In hand with a we'll.
affected surprise that Auy suspicion fhlf Pcify /
HsBsr isdI AZ Rome should be asserted and he /
says at falls upon our ear not 80 much like /
the serious amFmatinn OF An educated man
~ an announcement from fairy land! 20 Well
perhaps u 10 characteristic OF tho Romish
mind to DO very much AstOulahed when b1v.
hing not directly 10 their line happens 20 Sc
lfopOuuded. The Doctor Ia by no meanBtbe
fat example 10 the history " the Churrl
There have been other piciiHhf Of dflonEEBsfHi