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No, not if all Oxford were to convocate together, and agree as to the necessity of the sacrifice. And so they greatly comforted each other; and in what sorrow will not such mutual confidence give consolation! and with a last expression of tender love they parted, and went comparatively happy to their rooms.
Neither were princes allowed to do any more. Sometimes they interposed their authority, and meddled in causes spiritual or ecclesiastical, even before the definition of councils; yet did they not judge nor decide those matters, but did only convocate councils, and urge the clergy to see to the mis-ordered and troubled state of the church, and by their wholesome laws and ordinances, to provide the best remedies for the same which they could.
In ordinary cases, and when princes are not enemies to the truth and purity of the gospel, ecclesiastical persons should not do well to assemble themselves together in a synod, except they be convocate with the authority or consent of princes.
Neither did he this work by himself, but did convocate a council of the prophets, priests and elders of Israel, for the advancing of that reformation, 2 Kings xxiii. 1. 3.
We come not here to reply to your interrogations, but to demand of you why you have broken the peace, collecting your vassals in arms, and convocating the Queen's lieges, whereby many men have been slain, and much trouble, perchance breach of amity with England, is likely to arise?" "Lupus in fabula," answered the Abbot, scornfully. Convocate the Queen's lieges!
For howbeit kings may convocate a council, preside also and govern the same as concerning the human and political order, yet, saith Junius, Actiones, deliberationes, et definitiones, ad substantiam rei ecclesiasticae pertinentes, a sacerdotio sunt, a caetu servoram Dei, quibus rei suoe administrationem mandavit Deus.
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