their Councils abridged. I99 and got their Parties to Band it out for them. Pafchal promifed the Exarch a great Sum of Gold to-make him Pope. When they couldnot agree, Ser- gir e a third was chofen. TheExarch forced him to pay the Gold,and fo he gotthe Soldiers love and the Popedom. § 4.5. CCXIX. An. 688. Another 7oletan Council writ a defence of their afièrtion, that Christ had three Substances, and that Voluntas genuit Vo- luntatem. §46. CCXX. ACouncil at Ceefar-Augusta, made five Canons ; the last was, that when the Kings dyed, the %teens lhould lay by their civil Habits, andbe put into a Monaftery, and profefs Chaftity. § 47. CCXXI. An. 692 Was the famous great Council called the . uini-Sextum at Conftantinople,by 7úftinian ad's Order ; why it thould not be called a 7thGeneral Council, I know not. It was called by the perfua- liion of Callinicas Conftant. to make a full Body of Canons for Practice, be- caufe the 5th and6th Councils made none. Binniass faith, Ít couldnot be a General Council, becaufe the Pope was not there byhimfelf, or his Legates, and yet confeffeth that neither was he or his Legates at the hrlt Constantine Council, andyet it was univerfal. And why doth not another Bithops ab- fence (E. G. Alexand.'7erufal. &c.) null a General Council as well as the Popes? The Papifts rail at tiais Council as a Conventionof Malignants, ( Bin. p. a 54.) and against Balfamon, that defendeth it asa wicked Greek. Impofror; ( the word [wicked ] in thefe Mens writings is a term of art and interest, and no moral term.) They recited abundance of oldCanons,ma ny of great use. One would wonder whence the anger againstthem arifèth. It was per fummam nequitiam, faith Binnius, that they called themfelves a General Council : And the Holy Ghost was not with them, becaufe the Pope was not with them, (p. a 54., i 55. ) and they ordained many things contra- ry to Apoftolical Conftitutions, and theCanons of General Councils. Reader,. you fee here, s. Howlittle truft Papifts lay onthat part of Traditionwhich dependeth on Councils? 2. That it is the Pope ( one Man) that is the cer- tainty of Tradition and judgment, without whom Councils are nothing. 3. That if the Pope be abfent, all the other Bifhops affembled in Councils by the command of Emperors, may be called Knaves and wicked Malig- nants. Alas how few Bifhops adhered to the Pope, -( when Italy was not yet cured of Separation from him- )_ in comparifon of thofe that met in thefe Eastern Councils which they revile ! . You fee, here, how far they are from truth, that fay the Univerfal Church frill cleaved to the Pope, whenmost (by far) of the Bithops in the world forfook him ! you fee Luther was not the first. § 4.8. Note thatTharafass Bifhop of Constantinople, An. 692. in the td Council of Nice, tells them, that it was the fame Bifhopr that met in the 6th General Council at Constantinople,whomet again here under Minima. And -were not the Bifhops of the place fo near the time competent Judges of the matters of fo notorious Fact ? And were the fame Bifhops an infallible Gene- ral Council at. the 6th Council, and yet all wicked Schifmaticks or Knaves,, and:
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