z3 z Ciaurch-Htflory of 1r3ifhops-dnd hath leifure may compare. Greg.Neo-Cæfar. read theCouncils words. yoan. Cancellarius read the Confutation. It fell out well that this Confutation was undertaken, or elfe we had loft theDecrees of this Council , as the A&s, for ought I know, ate buried. Ingeneral every fober Reader mayperceive a great deal of difference be- tween the ftyle of the Council ofConfiantinople, and the Anfiser. The Coun- cil (peaks with as much temper and gravity, as molt: of the bet£ Councils have done. The Aníwer aboundeth with fuch railings and reviling words, as are meeter for a common Scold,thanfor Divines. The common language of it, is to call the Bifhops of the Council, Blinded, Igncrant, Fools,Wicked, Deceivers, Blafphemers, and fuch like. . And if all the Bifhops on earth be prefènt, or reprefented in a General Council, . what a Cafe then was the Church in ? And how !hall we know what Council is tobe believed, unlefs the Pope make all the difference ? * At Con- § 69. The number of the Bifhopswere * 3 3 8. They firf Thew howSa fiautinop'e tan hath brought in Idolatry. One of their chief Arguments againft Ima- ges of Chriff, is, that they favor of Nefarianifm, reprefèntingChrift by his sneer Manhood, when they cannot paint his Godhead ; calling that Pi&ure Chrift:, and overthro the Oeconomy and -Union of his Perron. I meddle not with the weight of -their reafon, but onlyrecite it. § 7 o. ,It's again worth the noting, that the Anfwer to them faith, ( For their charging Images, as drawing down the mind to Creature-worfhip Latria) [O infanien `em linguam, quam inflar machier a acutoe e. veneno imbutoe poffldent, &e. Omad tongue, which they pofféf like a (harp fword, imbued withpayfon, &c. For no Chriftian evergave Latriam to the Image of thofe that are under Heaven; for this is the Fable of the Gentiles, andDevils invention,,and the aggreJon of Satanical Allion.] --- [Our Latria is in Spirit and Truth.] Other paflkges forbid us to think that they juggle here, and demying Latriam only toCreatures under Heaven, intend to give it to Crea- tur inHeaven ; for they appropriate it elfewhere to God : by which they greatly differ from Aquinas and fuch Papi/ts. § % s. Note all° that ( whether well or ill) both there adverfe Councils curie, Pope Honorius as an Heretick ; fee Crab. p. 560, &c. § 7z. Another Argument which the Mil 7th Council (atGonft.) ufeth againft Images in Churches, is, that Chrift himfelf bath chofen and inftituted filch an Image ashe would be reprefented by,and that is the Bread andWine in the Sacrament, and therefore we mutt not prefume to make another, as if he had not done it well. This theweth that this General Council and the Church then held that the Bread was not nullified, nor become Chrift's Ef- fence, but was the Image or Reprefentation of his broken Body, and fo cal- led, The Body of ChriFt , as we fay of E. G. C efar's Image , To.s is Cæfar. But the adverfeCouncil, or theAnfwer, raileth at this as an abominable Speech, (Crab. p. 567.) as if the Sacramentmight not be called, The Image of Chris% (.though de re they feemnot at all to differ) faith the Conflantine Coun-
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