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 age to that of Nice-enacted a Canon, which enforces the same jurisdiction of the Roman Bishop.—“But if a Bishop, having been condemned in any suit, esteems his cause so good, as to wish to have it revised, let us so honour, if it please you, the memory of the Apostle Peter, that the judges of that cause be ordered to write to Julius, the Roman Bishop; in order, that if it be necessary, the judgment may be renewed by the neighbouring Bishops, and that He may appoint judges. If he think, there is not cause for a revision, let things remain as they were decided.” Can. iii. Conc. Gen. T. ii. p. 630.

St. OPTATUS OF MILEVIS, L. C.-“You cannot deny," he says to the schismatic Parmenianus, that St. Peter, the chief of the Apostles, established an episcopal chair at Rome: this chair was one, that all others might preserve Unity by the union which they had with it: so that whoever set up a chair against it, should be a schismatic and an offender. It was then in this one chair, which is the first mark of the Church, that St. Peter first sat; to St. Peter succeeded Linus, and after him others till Damasus, who is now our colleague ; by whose means all the Churches of the world are united with us in the same Communion, keeping correspondence by circular letters:(0) As to your party, which would willingly be thought to be the Church, shew us the origin of your chair : You tell us, that you are a part of the Roman Church; but this is a branch of your error, which proceeds from the root of falsehood, and not from the stock of truth.” De Schism. Donat. L. ii. p. 28, 29.

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