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N the Confeffion of the Faith of the Greek Church, compil'd by a Synod at Fafs in Moldavia, and confirm'd by another at Conftantinople in the prefence of all the four Patriarchs, we have thefe words, in anfwer to this Queftion, "What "is fecondly implied by our profeffing to believe "in the Holy Catholick Church?

Ὅτι παρ εδενὸς τόπε ἡ καθολικὴ ἐκκλησία εἴληφε τόνομα. Αι γδ' τοπικαὶ μερικαὶ εἰσιν, οἷὗ ἡ ἐν Ἐφέσῳ, ἡ ἐν Ἀντιωχεία, ἡ ἐν Ἱεροσολύμοις, ἡ ἐν Ρώμη, ἡ ἐν Αλεξανδρείᾳ, καὶ αἱ λοιποί, &c.

• Vide ὀρθόδοξον ὁμολογίαν, printed in Valachia, Anno 1699. p. 109.

Against the Primacy and Supremacy of the Pope, there are various Tracts in my Collection of this Sort. But for a Specimen of their Opinions in this matter, take the following words of the prefent Patriarch of Ferufalem, in his Preface to his Edition of the Τόμ ἀγάπης.

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Μήτε ὁ Κωνσαντινεπόλεως, μήτε οἱ λοιποι παίρι άρχαι, μήτε ἄλλῳ τις ὀρθόδοξα ἐφρόνησε ποτὲ τὶ ἔχῃ ἡ ἐκκλησία Κωνσαντινεπόλεως ἐν τῇ καθόλες ἐκε κλησία μοναρχικόν, ἡ αὐτοκρατορικὸν, ἡ γενικὸν ἀξίω ท์ ἀλλ ̓ ἔσι κεφαλὴ προπονεσα και μόνων. * τάξιν, ἅπερ καὶ αὐτὸ μέγα τι δεῖν ἐν τῇ ἐκκλησία. Ελα φρονείτω, οἱ παπιςα, ὅτι ὁν τρόπον ἡ ἀνατολική Εκκλησία λέγε † Κωνσαντινεπόλεως πρώτον και κεφα λω - Εκκλησίας, και * τρόπον τέτον, ὅτι καὶ ὁ ἐπί σκοπα Ρώμης πρώτα και κεφαλὴ ἢ ἐκκλησίας, και δεχόμεθα - Ρώμης πρῶτον ει και κεφαλίω ἐν τῇ ἐκ

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κλησία.

κλησία. Αλλ' ε προσέχουν) τότο: ἄρα καὶ ἡμεῖς τ παραδεχέμια - Ρώμης ἔτε πρώτον, ἔτε κεφαλίω, ετε μ' διόλα ἐπίσκοπον ἐν τῇ ἐκκλησίᾳ.

In another Tome published by the fame Patriarch, under the Title of Tou nalMayns thefe are the Summaries of particular Chapters.

Ὅτι ἐ μόνον ὁ † πρεσβυτέρας Ρώμης θρόνου απο κολικός καλεί), αλλα και κας @ ? ἄλλων Πατριαρ χικῶν θρόνων.

Ὅτι μία καθολικὴ καὶ αποςολικὴ ἐκκλησία, ἐχή τ πρεσβυτέρας Ρώμης λέξεις, ἀλλ' ἡ οἰκεμβύης πάσης * ὀρθοδόξων.

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-And by a Synod at Paris, Anno 825, p. 67 How the Church of England agreed then with the German and Gallican Churches, The Church of England the fame now as then,

ibid.

p. 68

The diftinction of Veneratio, from Cultus and Invocatio, p. 69 The Faith or Religion which the Church of England now profeffeth, agrees with Pope Gregory the Great's Confeffons, both before and after bis Confecration. P. 70, 71, 72, &c.

CHA P. IV.

What is there meant by the word PERISH, P. 75, 76 The diftinction between a True or Real, and a Sound Church,

P. 79 In what fenfe a Church may properly be faid to PERISH,

CHAP. V.

p. 83

The word CHURCH ufed in Scripture in a larger and a narrower fenfe, it fometimes fignifies the whole, fometimes part of the Catbolick Church,

p. 85

Ufed in the fame fenfe by Old Ecclefiaftical Wri

p. 86

ters, The Roman Church but a part of the Catholick Church, p. 98 The acceptation of the word CHURCH in the larger general fenfe for the Church of Rome only, abfurd and contrary to that Article, I believe the Holy Catholick Church, P. 99 The Church of Rome taken only for a particular Church both by the Ancient Greek and Latin Writers,

p.102 CHAP.

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