The Works of Mr. Richard Hooker in Eight Books of the Laws of ..., volume 3
The Works of Mr. Richard Hooker in Eight Books of the Laws of ..., volume 3
Richard Hooker, Izaak Walton
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council all councils provincial are reckoned void and frustrate, unless the bishop of the mother-city within that province where such councils should be, were present at them. So that the want of his presence, and, in canons for church-go- vemmenty want of his approbation also, did disannul them. Not so the want of any others. Finally, concerning election Can^4. of bishops, the councU of Nice hath this general rule, that ,J^^^' the chief ordering of all things here, is in every province cmmnitt...ed to the metropolitan. Touching them, who amongst metropolitans were also primates, and had of sundry united provinces, the chiefest metropolitan see, of such that canon in the. council of Carthage was eminent, whereby a bishop is forbidden to go beyond seas without the licence of the highest chair within the same bishop's own country; and of such ^wUch beareth the name apostolical, is that ancient ca- non likewise, which chargeth the bishop of each nation to Can. 2s. know him which is Jirtt amongst them, and to esteem of him ^' as a head, and to do no extraordinary thing but with his leave; The chief primates of the Christian world were the bishops of Rome, Alexandria, and Antioch.
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