their Councils abridged. Platina in Adrian. Sabellie. Enead. 8. ii. 8. Alph. de Caflro verb. Imago. And that Claud. Taurin. being his Difciple, and an Iconomach, he muff needs be fohimfelf: From whence I argue,that it is molt probable that the Hiíto- rians fay true, that fay Charles and the Council of Frankford were againft the Nicene Council and Images. For elfe how could it come to pats, that they fay not one word againft Fælisc and Elipandus for denying Images, when their Party was grown fo great-inSpainand France ? $ 92. Pope Adrian dying, Leo the 3d fucceeded. His Piety was fogreat, that Anaflafius writes, as it were,aVolumn, in naming the goodworks which he did, that is,theSilks, Vails, Cloathing, Silver, Gold, and innumerable gifts which he beftowed upon Polls, Pillars, Altars, Walls, Floors,Utenfils, it would tireone to read them, and the hardnames of them ; yea, he laid livenMafhes a day. Yet fome Kintìnenof Pope Adrian's,Pafchal Primicerius,& Campul- has Sacellarius, e'r Materai Nepefinus, laid Crimes tohis charge; and afEulted him, and twice put out his Eyes, and cut out his Tongue, and put him in a Monaflery ; yet ( faith the Story) hisEyes and Tonguewere perfe&ly re- ftored, and he fled to his Prote&or Charles into Germany; and Charles came toRome, and judged his Accufers toBanifhment, and reftored him ; and he crowned Charles then Emperor of the Weft, and perfe&ed.theDonation to him of all that had been the Emperor's. Charles gave him great Prefents ; and with his own Revenues and that, he laidout fo much Silver and Trea- fure at Rome, and did fb many new things in the Churches, that if you read but Adrian's life, and this Leo's, you will be afhamed to difgrace the Church of Rome with any Titles or Pretences of the ancient primitive ftate,but muff fay, Old things arepall away, behold all is become new. Charles theGreat, made the Pope Great. $ 93. Some Hiftorians fay , that the king of the Pope's Foot , was 'f brought in thus by this Pope Leo: A handfomWoman kilt his Hand, which fo inflamed his Heart with Luft, that he cut off the Hand that the Woman kilt, and ordained that ever after the Pope'sFoot fhould be kilt infead of his Hand : But I rather believe with Binnitts, that this is but a Fi&ion, becaufè a. There is mention before this of killing the Pope's Foot. 2. And I do not think that fuch a Heart would fo eafilypart with a Hand. § 94. To look back to the Eaft; when Irme had kept up Images awhile, her Son Conflantine grown up, is weary of her Government and Staúratsus, and depofeth her ; and whenhe ruled, the Bifnops molly were conformable to him : But in his youthful Folly and Rage, he put out the Eyes of his Uncle Nscepborus, and Alexius a Captain ; he put away Mary his Wife, and took one Theodota,that betterpleated him, its Marriage ; one f ofeph that mar- ried them, was preferred for it. Tarafius connived, and durlt not gain-fay. i c6Pis8. Theodore Studita & Plato therefore renounce the communion of Tarafius. c6. At laft, An. 797. his Mother Irene, and Stauratius, found means to appre- hend him, and murder him, that is, put out his Eyes, of which hedyéd,which force celebrate as a piousA&; it was done by her that let up Images. But I i within 24 _i
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