their Councils abridged. 2a 9 Tharafuu askethone of the Bifhops ( Leo ) How it came to paf that he that had been ten or eight years a Bithop, never knew the Apoflolical Tra- dition for Images till juft now ? He anfwered,. Becaufe through many Ages, ( or Times ) Malice endured, andfo wicked Doïtrineendured ; and when this perfeveredfor ourfins, it compelled us togo out of the way of Truth; but there as hope with God of ourfalvation. But Conftantine Cypr. anfwerethhimy Tou that are Bifhops, andTeachers of others, fhould not have had need to be taught jour felves. Leo replied, If therewere no exprefmt offin in the Law, there would be no need of Grace. Another ( Hypatius ) replied with the reft, Ttfe received ill Dotïrinefrom ill Matters. Yea, but filth Tarafius , The Church ought not to receive Prieftsfrom ill Teachers. Hypatius , Bifhop of Nice, re- plieth, [ Cuftom bath fo obtained.] . § 61, Hereupon the Synod defied to be informed on what terms Here ticks were tóbe received, when they returned : fo the Canons were brought and read. And though many Canons and Fathers have faid, that noRepen- tance for fome Crimes muff reffore aMan to the Priefthood, though it muff to the Church ; and there is an Epiftle of Tarafius put by Grabbe before this Council, in which he determineth that a Simohiack may be received up onRepentance to Communion,but not to his Office.; yet Torafius here be- ing defirous of their return, (knowing that thefe Penitents that renounced the errors of their Education, and former pradtice, would draw others tocon- formity with them) did refolutely anfwer all that was objeaed againft their reception.. 4 6... Here (in Crab. p. 4.7z. )a queftión fell in (upon their reading the Proofs, that repenting Hereticks were by.the Church to be,reftored to their Bifhnpricks and Priefthood,)What Hereticks thofeavere ? And it was añfwer- ed, that they were Ncvatians,Encrat sand. Arrians; and Manichees, Min- cions, andEutychians. And then one.asketh, Whetbér this Herefie (- againft - Images ) was greater or ter! than all thofe ? And Tharafius anfitrereth, ( like aStoick) cc. [Evil is always the fame and-equal, efpecially.in matters . Eccic' `` fafiácal, in the Decrees-of which" both great and (mall, to err is the fame "thing.; for in both God's Law is violated.] (O Learned Patriarch., wor- thy to be the fetter up of Church-Images ! ) A venerable Monk that was Vicar of theOriental Patriarch,anfwereth,[° That this Herefie is worfe than "all Hereflei, and the werfe' of all Evils, as" that which fubverteth the : Oeco-. " Homy of our .Saviour. ] Note, Reader, hc5w thePatriarchal Thrones did govern the Chârcli' an this Council, and by what reafons Images and Saints intercefliceis were fet up... Arrianifm, Manìcheifm, Marcionifm, no Herefie that denied the effentia'.s of Chriftianity, no evil was fo bad with them as to deny Ghñrch-Images, &n . And fo the late General Council, and Bifhops, for -three Ern perors Reigns, had been under the, worft .of Herefies :. and,Evilaj werfe. than_" rriase m iffèlf .,
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