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elders and brethren.
| 4. How is it when ST. Paul enumer'
ates the officers of the Church he does
| not mention that there was a Presi-
dent-head man? He mentions (Eph
| iv.:1) apostles, prophets: evangelists
pastors, teachers, but the Great Apostle
says not a word about any Vicar OF
Christ or Pope.
In the Epistles of the New Testament
or in the Book of Revelations what
| word is there about the power Of ST.
Peter? Not a word.
From Scriptures let us go to the
Fathers. Clement of Rome writing IN
A. D. 95-what does he say of this
momentous subject? Not a solitary
word. What does Ignatius, Bishop of
Antioch, say in his three Epistles, uni-
versally acknowledged to be genuine
written before A. D. 116, when he died ?
He does not mention the subject.
What does Polycarp, Bishop of
Smyrna, writing about the same date,
say about it? Not a word
What does Justin Martyr say. writing
before 1882? Not a word. When the
Bishop of Rome began to claim certain
powers, what did other bishops say?
st. Cyprian (256) in mis- .Theatise Oh
the Unity of the Church. says: "Tha
other apostles were also what Peter
was, endued with an equal fellowship
both of honor and power
Instead of quoting the Fathers, as ]
might do at great length, let us go to
a Bishop of Rome, Pope Gregory L..
called the Great. 1t is curious fact
that the first bishop who took to him
self the title of Universal, was Pope
Cor Bishop John of Constantinople
(5S5-595). Against this Gregory pro-
tested vehemently. He wrote to the
Patriarch of Alexandria about it, stat
ing that to allow the title to the Bishop
of Constantinople would be an injury to
the whole order. In reply the Bishop
of Alexandria said that he had ceased
to use this title in addressing John,
as Gregory had commanded tsicut
jussistis)," and addressed Gregory as
Universal Pope Whereupon Gregory
wrote: II beg that you would no,
speak of commanding since I know
who / am and who you are. In dignity
you are my brother, in character my
father. I pray your sweet Holiness to
address me no more with the proud
dppGlAdtiOIi I'll FCi Scti VpCs oAi2SS
that which is given to another beyond
what reason requires is subtracted from
yourself. If you style me Universal
Pope you deny that you are at all that
which you owned me to be, unfver-
sally. Away with such words which
puff up vanity and wound charity" 70
John himself he wrote: What will
You say to Christ (who is, you know,
Head of the Universal Church) in the
examination of the last judgment? You
who endeavor to subject to yourself.
under the name universal, all it's men,
bers?" He wrote also: mot one OF
my predecessors have consented to
bear this profane title, because when
a patriarch arrogates to himself the
name of universal the patriarch will
suffer discredit." No doubt John as
sumed the title from the fact that hs
was Bishop of Constantinople which
was at that time the capital of the
Roman Empire; this gave to him a
natural prominence.
What I have written is sufficient, but
we might call attention to the General
Councils. Who would call a council
If the Popes We're presidents, leaders.
head men,? Who called the council of
Nice, A. D. 325? 1t was the Emperor
Who presided? The
Bishop of Cordova. Who presided at
the second General Council in 3S1?
Meletius, Bishop of Antioch, and later
two other bishops. Who presided at
the third, in 434? Cyril of Alexandria. |
Who presided over the fourth, in 451? |
The Bishop of Constantinople. What
IF the fifth General Council, 553, which |
Pope Vigilius, who after |
wards made a humiliating submission |
% the DEGREES of the council? None of |
,hese nor the sixth We're held in Rome |
How do these facts agree with the idea |
If President, etc.?
Now to end. The Church of England |
holds the doctrine as did Gregory the i
Great and the Roman Church in his
lays, When in his time Augustine /
,ame to Britain to convert the Saxons
he found the bishops of the British
Church there and had a conference
With them. Even in the days when
England was in communion with Rome
he Pope could not do as he pleased, for
Acts of Parliament tnterfered. In lila
Pope Paschal II. wrote complaining
hat the English Church showed little
10 appeals to it and did not ask sSd-
ice. I could cite many instances of
pen defiance to the authority Of Popes
~ Church and Parliament.
1t is, in fact, a great mistake to say
hat the Church of England was the
roman Church before the Reformation
nd after that the English Church. Its
agal name was in all the centuries OF
IS existence the English Church, &c
lesia Anglicana." I have appealed to
istory to support my position. I have
rief1y shown that your contentious
an not be supported by the facts OF
istory. You may assert that Henry
III. Ibid found the Church of En-
land" but it is only assertion, not
act, and based by you solely on the !,
rinciple that because the Church re-
udiated Rome, therefore it was new. I
,esides, your cwn Popes contradict
on. On March s, 1854, Pope Julius Ill.
ent a brief to Cardinal Pole desiring
, absolve and reconcile bishops and
RESTS made in Edward Wis time,
cling him not to reordain them, put {
, confirm their Anglican orders. How 1
ould a Pope do that If he considered {
int IF sect s