their Councils abridged. 249 earnefl againft them, and, as they called it , perfecuted the Worfhippers of images. A Prince confeffed to be very profitable to the Empire ; Michael Balbus that-is fìippofed thechief of them that murdered him, reigneth in is Read : he let hitnfelf earneflly to have healed the Church-diviftons ofthe Eafl about Images. To that end he Cent Ambaffádors to Ludovicus ,Pius into France for hiacounfel, in the profeffing his great delire of Peace. Ludovicus called together fome that he moll efteemed for Learning at Paris, ( which fome call a Council, but werelike to be more learned than the Majority in Councils) to debate and confider the bufinefs. The Paris Divines in this Debate drew up a Writing, in which they greatly finned, faithBellarmine, in that they took on them to reprehend the Pope, and a General Council; (But do not they themfelves condemn manyGeneral Councils?) In which , . fàith Bel armtnehey far exceededthe Author, who in.thename ñf CatolusMag. put firth a Book againfI the vorrfltiping of - mages. For he (which alto the Fa- thers of the Frankford .Council did) difallouìed (or reje&ed ) the zdNicene Synod, becaufethey thought it hadbeen celebrated without the Pope's , content *: * An un- But thefeCounfellors of the Emperor Lewis,confef the Council of Nice ad for likely the worfhiping of Images to be called and approved by Pope Adrian, and yet thing. they didnotfear to examine, judge, and reprehendboth the Synod itfelf, and the E ifIleof Adrian to Conftantinefor the worfbipof Images, yea, and the defence pfthat Synod fine by Adrian to Charles M. faying , g[ Indifcreté notitur fc- cJJe in eo quodfuperflitiosé eas adorari jufrt. ] So (faith Bellarmine) they were not afbamed to judge the Yudge of themfelves ,, and of the whole world, to feed the Paftor of all Chrill Sheep, and to teach the Teacher of all men ; than Which temerity, no greater can be imagined. Thus far Bel- larmine. í z;. Here I delire the Reader to take notice, I. That.even then when the Pope was advanced to his Kingly greatnef, -yet as the Eaflern Empirewas far from obeying him, fo even that one Prince that let him up, and defended him, with his Do&ors and Cóunfellors, were far from thinking himInfallible, but reproved him, and judged him as fuper ftitious for Image-worfhip , and were not herein ruled by liim. z. And judge whether moll Bifhops would not havejudged accordingly, if they had had but the fame countenance from Princes, as the Bithops in the Eaft and there, now had ? 3. And judge with what Face the Militant Dodos of Róme.do pretend, that all the worldwas then fùbjed tothe judgment of the Pope, and bid us -name anyChurches that reje&ed it, whenEaft and Well fo far rejected it as is here confeffed, even whenthey were grown fo high, yea and Councils as well as Popes ? 4 t 2.6. Hereupona Book was printed An. 1 596. called, The Council of Paris about Images,containing, Z k I. The
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