-their Councils abridged. continual joyful Praifes to God, and holy Exercifes, and to ufe no Horfe-Ra- ces, &c. The 67thCanon is againff eating Blood. Can. 72.. Nullifieth Marriage withHereticks. (Alas, good Bifhops, did you think the Papifts would have Hereticated you as Monothelites, and nulli- fiied.aall Marriages withyou by this Canon ? But two Hereticks. Marriage is not .null. - Can. 78. Commandeth all the illuminate ( baptized) to learn the Be- lief, and every Friday tofay it to .the Bifhop and Presbyteri. ( How many Pa- iii(hes or hundred Parïfhes had the Bifhop then to hear ? Not fo many as ours.) '§ 56. The 82. Canon offendsthe Papifts, forbidding the ,Pi6lure of a Lamb to be made for Chrift as the Lamb of God. The Both Canon is (an old one) Not to kneel on any Lord's-day , and that this begin on the evening before. P. s 55. Bimsius reproveth them for calling-Cyprian Archbifhop , and he proveth that .Africa then had 'noArchbifhopor Primate. § 57 CCXXII.4n. 693. was anotherToletan Council, called byKing Egica: Before it the King writeth a Sermon for them, wherein he tells them, That every Parifh that have twelve Families, muff have their proper :Gever nor : But if left, it muß be part of anthers charge. § 58. CCXXIII. An. 694.. was another Toletan Council under the fame KingEgica : (One would wonder that the Legiflativevertue of the Church fhould be continued to fuck fertility and multitude of Laws, as muff follow if in all Countries there be every year a - Council : How gt eat muff the Volumes of Laws be at laft ?) Binnius in his Notes on this Council tells us, That though Paul would have the believing Husband or Wife flay with the Unbelieve', in hope of Converfion , yet many hundred years experience bath taught us the contrary, ( that it tendeth rather to, hurt thangood) and there- fore now it muff be otherwife, and they maltfeparate. § 59. CCXXIV. Even to thofedays the number of Pagans and Infidels in moft Countries was the ureateft, and the care .of good men was to convert them : - ( And therefore we read !till_of fo many baptized at age.) ACoun- cil at Utrecht decreed ( Willebrood ( or Willifr'id) , and Suibert being Lead- ers) that the beft Preachers fhouldbe.lent from the Neighbor Churches to . convert the Heathens, ( that was better work, than ftriving who fhoùld be chief, or raging about .hardwords.) § 6o. CCXXV. A 'Synod at Aquileia, An. 698. condemned the 5th General Council at Conffantinople, fot condemning the triaCapitulei of the Council of Calcedon. (O what Concord Councils caufed ! ) § 6 r. Pope Sergioes refufing to own the Council of Confiant. at Trod. under ;7uftinian 2.d, the Emperor commanded that he fhould be brought Pig- loner to Conftaniinopie. The Soldiers of Ravenna (Sergiushaving paid them their oo 1. of Gold) hearingof,it,role up and refusedhim, and made the Emperor's Officer in fear_beg-for his life. By fuch Obedience Rome kept up. Dol g6z. 201 E
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