St. Chrisostome, in his dialogue De dignitate sacerdotali, saieth that the mynisterie is a chardge geven by God to teache withoute armes or force, and that the same is no power to give or to take kingdomes, nor to make lawes for the publique governemente.
Somewhere in Hakluyt's compendium; I don't know the context, because this is another nugget from doing DP, but the same person is against the Papal Line of Demarcation.
So wrote clew in History (16th c.). | TrackBack