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inoe of the power of the air, spirit which now worketh in the children of dii obedience, Satan bad been leavening the church with that wicked leaven of malice and unrighi oui^nei^Sr which the ApoAlles saw to be nlrcvd; Working in their days, designating it some tiini the apostasy, and at other times the spirit of aitl chriait ; which wnft let niut lunderetl by the imJ pcrial power, and cotild not be manifested iinl that ^iLS taken out of the way. And why let ai hindered by the civil power ? Because the chaiB* terof the apostasty, its very soul and subsJsteoc; was to consist in taking up the civil power inl it<elf, and uniting the ecclesiastical and civil litics in one ; which it could not do while the hi that grasped the sceptre continued to oppo«e persecute the church. But when Constantini the first emperor of the third century, profesi the ('hriKti?m f»tth, and established it by piiblii authority ; and still mure when Thcodosius pled with his iron hand the hydra of pagi shewing bead again ; and, finally, when the Ooth consumed both its nc^itaml younglii with fire ; the former spirit of violent power w removed ont of the way, nnd the itpirit of apostasy which had been long working, began perfect and complete itteir This it did by ste^ degrees, choosing the Bishop« of Homo fojc^ It] 7U£ THH££ VtiCLZA^ srillJi«. H61 fttrumcdt; wbo, ereu in tb^ time of CjrpriaQ, be- g^n to U5iirp it over the patriarchate of j^frica; and slturtly aft^r tlu; fle;iLli of Ci;u»lautinc, who had exceodingiy eurichcd that See, it was found nectfssary, in the geoeral council of Con«txuitinoplet to curb thorn witti a decree, ' That a« ctiuscft did ari^u 111 any province, th« eamc should be dctcr- tniued by the council of that proviDce/ Dut^ notwithfitanding thifij and many other resistances^ the work of Satan weut on, lill, byihe famous 9crics of decrees in Uia Pandects of Ju&tiuian, he got himself m&dc» by civil law, tho bead of all the Latin churchc*^, and judge without appeal in all qucHtions of religion , whereby the sainU with- in Uie region of the ten liorns were given into his hand. In the course of another century, he mmt* tercd the patriarch of Con^^tautinople, and pro- cured liinifiulf to be rcoof^niucd by ihe Einperor fts nnivcrsal bi»hop» although Pope Gregory, com- monly called the Great, hiid a sJiorl white bciore written, — ' That it ib agRinst the f^tutuTc^^ of tjie empire for any man to take iipoa him Uj be called universal hi&bop : That no Bishop of Rome did ever admit of that name of singularity and pro-