St. _Peter_, either alone, or jointly with St. _Paul_, as we read in _Irenæus_, and in the Apostolical Constitutions[64], appointed other Bishops of _Rome_. Now, when he appointed others, did he resign his Episcopacy, or retain it? If he resigned it, he did not die Bishop of _Rome_; which shakes the very Foundation of the Pope’s Claim to Supremacy: if he retained it, there were Two Bishops on the same See at one time; which Pope _Innocent_ I. in his Epistle to the Clergy and People of _Constantinople_, condemned as an Irregularity never known till his Time[65]: he did not, it seems, recollect that it had been practised by his Predecessor Pope _Peter_. _Theodoret_ tells us, in his Ecclesiastical History, that when the Emperor _Constantius_ would have had _Felix_ to sit in the See of _Rome_, together with _Liberius_, upon the Return of the latter from Banishment, the People of _Rome_ would not content to it, crying out, _One God, one Christ, one Bishop_. _Felix_ died soon after, and upon his Death _Theodoret_ makes the following Remark: _It was_, says he, _a special Providence, that_ Peter_’s Throne might not suffer Infamy, being held by Two Prelates_[66]. He did not consider, or rather did not believe, that it had been held by St. _Peter_ and St. _Paul_, by St. _Pater_ and by _Linus_. [Sidenote: _St._ Peter _Bishop at_ Rome, _not of_ Rome.] To conclude, St. _Peter_ was perhaps Bishop at _Rome_, not of _Rome_[N2]. He was Bishop at _Rome_, if he ever was there, being, in virtue of his Apostleship, impowered to discharge, at _Rome_, and every-where else, all Episcopal Functions; but was not specially Bishop of _Rome_, or any other Place; that is, he did not take upon him the Charge of any particular Bishop, the Administration of any particular Bishoprick, that being inconsistent both with the Dignity and Office of an Apostle, or universal Bishop. ----- Footnote N2: 'Tis a Distinction made by a Pope, _King in_ Etruria, _not of_ Etruria. ----- Footnote 10: Arnob. l. 2. in Gent. Footnote 11: Cyril. catech. 6. Footnote 12: Euseb. l. 2. c. 14. Footnote 13: Iren. l. 2. c. 20. Footnote 14: Tert. de anim. c. 24. Footnote 15: Hier. de vir. illustr. c. 2. Footnote 16: Justin. apol. 2. Footnote 17: Cyr. cat. 17. Footnote 18: Hier. in Isai. xi. 14. Footnote 19: Athan. ad Drac. Footnote 20: Chrys. ad Hebr. præf. Footnote 21: Theod. in 2 Tim. iv. 17. Footnote 22: Greg. in Joh. xxiii. 22. Footnote 23: Concil. tom. 2. p. 1245. Footnote 24: Act. xi. 2. xv. 7. Gal. i. 18. ii. 9. Gal. ii. 11. 1 Pet. v. 13. 1 Cor. i. 12. Footnote 25: 1 Pet. v. 13. Footnote 26: Euseb. l. 2. c. 15. Footnote 27: Hier. vir. illust. c. 8. Footnote 28: Bed. tom. 5. p. 713. Footnote 29: Oecu. p. 526. Footnote 30: Grot. synops. in Pet. Footnote 31: Vide Grot. ib. p. 1541. Footnote 32: Pears. oper. posth. p. 56, & seq. Footnote 33: Coloss. iv. 11. Footnote 34: 2 Tim. iv. 6.