their Councils abr2i'ed. 235 " thechief Apofile Peter commanded, Feed theFlock of God, overfeeing it, not "byforce, butfreely and voluntarily,according to God; not forfilthy lucre fake, " but readilyand chearfull ; not as having a dominion over the Clergy,but as G° being examples to the Flock. The i Sth Canon forbids one Man to have two Churches. The 22dCanon forbids Canting, and Minftrels, and Ribald Songs at meat : But the 7th favors of their Superftition, forbidding anyTemple tobe Confecrated without Reliques, and ordering Temples that have noReliques to be put down. § 78. In theLetter to Adrian,Tkarafius tells him, that he had a year be- fore attempted the like at Gonfi. but was hindered a whole year by vio- lent Men ; which further fheweth how far the oppofition to Images had ob- tained, when Irene began to let them up. § 79. So muchof the Zd Nicene Council, in which by the power of one, Woman, and Stauratius a Senatorthat ruled her, the judgment of the Uni- verfal Church (if theCouncil, or moft of the Bifhops in theEmpire Ggnifie it) was fuddertly changed fromwhat it had been during the Reign of the three laftEmperòrs and made that Church-ufe of Images(which fume thought finful, and no judicious Chriftian could judge neceffary, but indifferent,and of Life to fome) to be henceforth fo neceffary, that the Delayers are fentenced for curled Hereticks, yea the Doubters cut off fromChrift. § 80. CCXXXIII. Binnius next addeth a Council at Forojulium,An.79 r. held by Paulinus Bifhopof Aquileia: in which is a Speech of his to the_Bi- íhops, and an excellentCreed, and 14 Canons, written as byhimfelf ; all in a far more underltanding, fober, pious manner, than is ufual among the Patri- archs at General Councils. The i 3 thCanon is an excellent Precept for the holy obfervation of the Lord's-day, wholly in Holinefs, and in Hymns of Praife to the Holy Ghoft, that bleílèd it by his admirable Advent, calling it God's Sabbath ofdelight, beginning the 7th day evening,not for the honour of the 7thday, but of this Sabbath, &c. § 81. Yet rath and unskilful words let the Bifhops into more divifions. Feelix Urgelitanus, and from himElipandus Bifhop of Toletum , taught that Chrill as the eternal Word was God's Natural Son, but that as Man he was his Adopted Son. Hence his Adverfaries gathered that he was a Neflorian, and held twoSons. A Council An. 791.. at Ratisbonne was called to condemn this Herefie. Yea, `onas Bifhop of Orleance faith, That it infected Spainfor a great part, ( and he knew their Followers to be certain Antichrifis, , by their faces andhabits. ) But wife Men think that the Controverfiewas not de re, but de nomme; And that if oneChrift be faid to be one Son of God in two. H h 2 natures,
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