The History of the Popes: From the Foundation of the See of Rome to the Present Time ...

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Seite iii - History of the Popes, from the Foundation of the See of Rome to the Present Time.
Seite 314 - ... from a letter of Innocent I. to Alexander bishop of Antioch, that the merit or demerit of developing this idea belongs to Innocent. In that letter he derives the prerogatives, privileges and jurisdiction of the Roman see from St. Peter. In view of this Bower remarks : "Innocent may be justly said to have pointed out the ground on which the unwieldy fabric of the papal power was afterwards built.
Seite 241 - Hamadani, who flourished towards the end of the third and the beginning of the fourth century...
Seite i - Apostles' times to the present it had ever been acknowledged by the Catholic Church. But, alas ! I soon perceived that I had undertaken more than it was in my power to perform. Nay, while, in order to...
Seite i - rut of the Church, I was so far from finding any thing that seemed the " least to countenance such a doctrine, that, on the contrary, it appeared " evident, beyond all dispute, that, during the above-mentioned period of " time, it had been utterly unknown to the Christian world. In spite, " then, of my endeavours to the contrary, reason getting the better of the " strongest prejudices, I began to look upon the Pope's Supremacy, not only " as a prerogative quite chimerical, but as the most impudent...
Seite ii - ... upon the leaft fufpicion of his only calling in queftion any of the received opinions, he may depend upon his being foon convinced by more cogent arguments, than any in Mood and Figure. But great is the power of truth ; and at laft it prevailed : I became a profelyte to the opinion which I had propofed to confute ; and fincerely abjured, in my mind, that which I had ignorantly undertaken to defend.
Seite 409 - Or</7« had been wounded, delivered him into his Hands. The Governor to deter others from the like Attempts, and to mortify Cyril, whom he well knew to be at the Bottom of the Plot, caufed the Monk to be tortured with fo much Severity, that he expired on the Rack. But Cyril, partly out of Spite to the Governor, and partly to reward the Zeal, which the Monk had exerted in attemptingto aflaffinate hisAntagonift, caufed him to be honoured as a holy Martyr, unVoi.
Seite 228 - were admitted to a far greater share of his care, though not to the plenitude of his power.' They were sent on proper occasions into all countries, and never failed exerting, to the utmost stretch, their boasted power, oppressing, in virtue .of their paramount authority, the clergy as well as the people, and extorting from both large sums, to support the pomp and. luxury in which they lived.
Seite 4 - Departure was at hand i for he tells Timothy, that all the Brethren did falute himi and, rtAtam^Eubulus/Pttdens, Linus, and Claudia \ he omits 'Peter, whom we may thence conclude not to have been there. And yet it is a received Tradition in the Church of Rome, that St. 'Peter was then not only in that...

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