( 1 49 J moll: Learned Man can know. Were you evet• in Ethiopia, Syria , Armeni.,-J , Georgia, Circaflia , ·Mengrelia, and in all the Greek Churches? Ifit be , Travellers that you trufi to, they give you no ere· dible notice ofany fuch thing : And you lay ·our Salvation on the avoiding of Schifm, and this up- .on our obedience to the Univerfal Jurifditlion, and fo you lay all our Salvation on the TeHimo– ny of Travellers, who of all Men are mo{l: fuffpetleClof a liberty to Lie. ,. 5• . But the plain truth is, that notice which we · have by Travellers and Hillorians of the lJlind of · mofl: ofthe Chriftian World, atfurech us that a very great parr of it receiveth ·neither yo'u:r -fix Councils, nor your firfi four, · and the refrreteive many more ; If you have read Brocardm and : 14cobm de Vitriaco, who dwelt both at ']eru{alem, and Haitho and others in the Novm Orbis that defcribe Tariary and Armenia, and Leo .Afer, and .· Pa.utm Venetm, and Botertis, and Godi.gnm, and ·L~defJ!.htU of Abaf!ia, &c. you may perceive how gr'elt "a number ofChriHians there be who own not fo much as your four firfl: Councils_, fome abhorring that at Ephefvu, and fome tthat .at Chalced9n. Atid you know that both Greeks and Papills receive ' more than fix. ·+' 6. And I crave your anfwer to the Qgeftion which I put to your Bifhop and you, How could Chrifiians know which were the true Soveraign Councils, when the far greatefl: part of the Bi– iliops difowned them ? I will not ceftfure you to be fo ignorant ofHifiory as not to know that the far greacefi part of the Church renounced the Cou11cil of Chalcedon in the Reign ofdivers Em":' . perors? And the Council of Nice in the Reign of. · L 1 Co'/antim •
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