zz 8 Church-H.01y of Bilhops and "hearts teach ChrfiEtnPeople the 'venerationof holy and honourable Images of "' ail Saints, which from the beginning pleated God.. 411.1 Where (hall' we have Painters enow ?-' z. Where ¡hall we have Money to pay them ?' 3. Where fhall we find room to hold them ? 4. Is not here anew Article of Faith_, and a new Commandment neceffary to Salvation ? T. Was:ndt their Church Univerfal,as .it flood before all or moll here- curled ? 6. Was it nova hard matter tobelaved, ofbe a Conformifl on the terms, when a. Man that did butdoubt of Images, yea,that did notteach them to thePeople, and that from his heart, mull be curled ? y. Was not fuch a curling foyt of Bifhops a great Curfe, Shame and Calamity to theChurch? Did they not tempt Infidels to curfe or deride them all, while they thus curled one another, even their Councils. ?. Tlïarafliss'joyfully receivedall this, and Confantine Bifhop of Conflance in Cypress faid,That this Libel of Theodofius drewmany tears fromhim, (I füp- pole of joy ;) . And now they all law theway. § 6o. But now cometh a Crowd more to do their Pennance ; Hÿpatius Bifhop of Nice, Leo Rhode, Gregoryof Pifidia; Gregory of Pefnunt , Leo of Iconium, Nicolas of Hierapolis,Leo of Carpathium. And now Tarafzzrs was lure of them, he groweth more upon them, and will know of them, Whence it was%at in the laft Council they did what they did'againft Images? - whether it was through meer Ignorance,o»by any ream that drew them to it:If through Ignorance, he bids themgive aReafon how theyscáme to'befo ignorant If up- on anpReajon, to tell what that ReafonWad', that mightbe refuted. Leo, Bifhop of Rhode, anfwered, "[W.havefinnedbefore God, and before `fl the Church, and before this holy Synod; Ignorance made us fall from the "Truth, andwe have nothing to faytn our own dfence. ]' 7harafïus would know what Reafon now moveth and changeth them;Fame í y;.becaufe."iris theDoarine orFaithof. the.Apofllesand Fathers. Another alledgeth a fayingas of "the.. Antioch Council, and - another as of Wore Pe- 141which the learned Reader examining; may fee what proof it-was that Images were brought into Churches by; it's worth the noting.' But another alledgeth the Apoflles and Prophets Tradition : But.whatb 'theproof? And did not the Council at Confiant. nor the Bifhops in the-Reign of the three former Emperors know :+what Traditïcnwas? Was it unknown till now? How came it now known then ? Or who told it this Council, when the lafl khew it not'? -Or if the lift were falle Knaves, how (hall we be lure that t .aef4 were honef}.Men ?:.Or.shat..the.fameMeat were fuddenly become wife asdhonefl?' TharafÏtiS-:;'
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