z40 Church-Hiftory of Bifhops and fuetudine , confirmant ur. 2.faregenerat ionem Filii Dei vel ¿eterna,, de Fà- tre, vet temporalem de .Matre quifquam hominumaudeat invefligare , dicente Scrip.turd, atiora to ne quæfieris ! O well faid ! Happy Church, if the Bithops had held to this : But here you fee that theyheld a double Generation,Eternal andTemporal, and yet but one Filiation. I write this, becaufe the Heretica- ring Spirit yet reigneth, and by thefe oldWeapons fighteth againfi Love and the Churches Unity, on -pretenceof Orthodoxnefs ; and to this day the Pa- pifis reje& a great part of Chrift's Church as Hereticks,by the countenanceof former Councils cenforioufnefs, calling Chrift's Members Iconoclafls, Monothe- lites, Neflorians, Eutychians, and many fuch names, fome fetcht from indiffer- ent things, (or duties ) and force fromquarrels about hard'words. 4 87. Note here that Binniui. exprefly faith, that Adhuc nondum eft cer- tum qualis inparticulari fuerit barefis Feliciana: It is not yet certain what this Felician Herefie war. And if fo, Ihope I (hall not be cenfured for the .fame,notwithfianding youmay fay, the. Council knew it. § 88. It's worth the noting as to the credit of Council Records , which Bimnus there faith, (p. 42,7. ) If this Council as it now is extant , may without temerity be rejetied, all Councils by the fame reafon may be rejelled which Surius.. bath gathered from the Catholick Libraries.] He confeffeth that the ref} are no furer than this, and yet that Baronius, Bellarmine, by the generality or number of Hifforians confent, do confefs that there was by this Council a reje&ion of the Conc. 2dNicene, which is now here to be found in it. § 89. The-Council at Frankforddetermined that Chr fwas not a Servant, Vid. Not.. Servitute pcenali Deo fubje&us, fubjeël to God by penal Servitude. The pre- ; Bin.p.42,8 fent agreement of Chriftians, taketh this for Socmianifm and Herefie : Chrift fuffered for our fins ; his fubje&ion toPoverty, Reproach, the Crofs , and many works, (as Fafiing, being carried about by Satan, and tempted, Mat. 4. s. wafhing his Difciples feet, travelling on foot, being fubje& to his Mo- ther, and to Princes, paying Tribute, cc.) we fuppofe werepart of his Hu- miliation: The Holinefs and Obedience was good, and no Penalty: But the matter of that Obedience was the Crofs and Suffering,which is Ma'am Na- turas. And if this was no punifhment ( voluntarily accepted by hisSpon- fion) howwas Chriff our Surety, bearing our Tranfgreffions? bow fuúéred . he for our fins ? Is not fuffering for 1m, evenof others,penal ? Is not the de- nial ofChrift's. penal Service and Suffering, a denial of his Satisfaçlion and our Redemption? You fee how eafie it is to find Herefie and Infidelity itfelf in unskilful words; and yet it's like the Speakers meant better than they, fpake. _ § 9 o. Note that Pope Adrian firff made himfelf Judge, and Anathemati zed Elipandus as an Heretick, and fo the Council was byaffed (with the Em peror;) and how great Adrian'spower was ( having made Charles'Empe- ror, and Charles made him a Prince,) it is eafie to conje&ure. §. 9 i . Binnius faith, p. 429. that Fælix, befides his other Herefie , im- pugned Images, and that this is laid by the Concil. Sencnenfin Decret. f c.14. Platina
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