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Portrait of Philip Schaff Philip Schaff Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. VIII, The Decretals… (1885)

Consult also vol. v. p. 156, in Elucidation IV.; also same volume, Elucidation III.
3. On p. 610, Ep. 2, sec. 1, observe the reference to the “statutes of Emperors,” where the wily forger forgot himself, as if the Cæsars of this date had legislated for the Christian Church. On the spirit of the ancient Canons, refuting all these Decretals, compare the Canons of Nicæa, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 15; of Constantinople, 2 and 3; of Ephesus, 8; and of Chalcedon, 9 and 28. To these Canons, against the claims of the Paparchy, the Church of England appealed at her Restoration.
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