2zx Church-R.orj of Bilhops and § 45.. While Leo Ifaaarus and-Conflantine ,lived, the Councils of Bithops went.with them, and Images went down in the EaflernEmpire :.Cinftantine dying; Son Leo fucceeded him, faith Binnius, in his Herdic, Impiety and Sácrilge, that is, in his oppofition to Image-worfhip, and fuch like. Peta- .vita áI'ith, he firfl feigned himfelf a Catholick, ( that is, ..for Images) but after fell off: His Sacriledgewas, that loving jewels, he took for himfelf a rich. Crown, which Maurice had devoted to the Virgin Mary ; . whereupon Carbuncles arofe on him, and he dyed : but had not Maurice himfelf .a.fad` der death ? Thus partial Hiflorians feign and apply Judgments. § 4.6. Irene, Leo's Widow, with her Son Conftantine aChild, next ruled, and, faith Binnius, God by a Widow and an Orphan Child, by a Wonder , did tread .down the Impiety4tt had been fir up, and reftored Religion, that is, Images. And indeed Acmes intereft and proper way bath been chiefly advan- ced under, Women and Rebels. And it is no` wonder if Irene a Woman, and her Child, were.more for Images than their Predeceffors. Children ufe to play with Images, and Womens Fancies are :oft not unfuitable to them. I think it as obfervable a matter, as Binnius doth, to note the Infiru- ments. § 47. There are inBinnius theTitles of 44 at lefft Epiftles of. Pope Adrian's recited : The 36th faith, [Heprofef ich that the 'Church of Rome doth embrace and reverence the WholefourthCalcedonCouncil. Remember then that the laftCanon is approved, which declareth the reafon of the Ro- man Priviledges to bebecaufe it was the Imperial Seat , and therefore that Confiantine fhould have the like, and that it was givenit by the Fathers. Moft or manyof them are thanks to Charles for giving St. Peter fo, ma- ny great Citiesand Dukedoms,andExhortations to him to "continue his boun- ty. By their ordinary language you would not fufpef any Selfifhnefs,Pride or Covetoufnefs in the Popes; it is bqt for St. Peter that they defire all. § 48. In his Epiftle toConftantine and Irene, ( the Child andMother) to *See Hen. entice them to be forImages, , he tells a fabulous Story* of a Vifion of Con- Fomlis ofylantine's fending him to Silvefteras hisGuide , to be baptizedof him,. and Téafons to be thereby cured of a Leprofe: It was Peter andPaul that appeared to P. i 20. ' him ; and he asked Silvefter whether there were left any Images of Peter prving and Paul, which he affirmed,and {hewed him their Piftures ; and the Empe- the whole ror cryedOut, Thefe are the Men that appeared to me. And part of their falteY Meffage to him was, that he fhould bring all the world into the fubje&ionof theChurch of Rome.] Was not here a ftrong Argument to aWoman and a Child to be for the Pope and for Images, contrary to current Hiftory, ( that tells us Conftantine was baptized at Nicomedia a littlebefore his death,) and without any,credibleproof. Thus the Papal Rome was built. When Adrian had given away the Weftern Empire to Charles, yet he thus flattereth a Wall. _ oman and Child in the Eaft, as if he had done them no wrong at § 4.9.
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