their Councils abridged. 275 made neceffary to the validity of ordinations, are more null than thole of Pbotitu: And therefore we owe them ( as fuch ) no obedience nor communion.] Thus our nullifyings and condemnings proceed till molt men have degraded if not unchrifiened one another. And he that is on the ftronger fide carrieth it, till death or force other change confute his claim , and then the other fide gets up and condemneth him as he con- demned them. And thus bath the Church long fuffered by damning Divines, and domineering or cenforious Judges. § 54 B3' the reftoring ofIgnatius, the Pope got to himfelfthe repu- tation of fòme Supremacy, and obliged a party to him; which however it was not the greateft at the firft, would be greateft when Ignatius his fupremacy had advanced it : And with them he got the reputation of being juif, indeed Photius feeming to poflefs the feat ofone that was injurioufly depofed by the meer will of the Prince, without fufficient ca tire. § 5j. Pope Hadrian 2. (Epift. 4. ad Ignat. Conti.) direc`teth Ig- natius to forgive many others, but none ofthole that fubfcribed to Pho- tius his great Council at Conftantinople, becaufe they reproached the PopeofRome;where you may fee i.How dangerous it was then to be in a General Council, when,if they pleafenot the ftrongeft, they are ruined: And if they do, it's like enough the next age will damnthem for it. 2. How much more dangerous is it for a Council to be against the Pope, than to be guilty ofmany other crimes; and how unpardonable it is. § 56. CCLXXXIII. An. 868. Betides the Popes Roman Synod that damned Photius and his Book and Conft Council, there was a Council at Worms, which repealed many old Canons, of which the 1-4th. " is, that if Buhops fhall excommunicate any wrongfully or for light caufe "and not refiure them, the neighbour Báfhops(hall take fucb to their com- munion till the next Synod. The xç. Canon is, that becaufe in Monafferies there are Thieves that " cannot be found, when the fufpefted purge themfelves, they(hall receive "the facrament ofChrift's body and blood, thereby toPhew that they are in- " nocent.] But this Canon the Papifts are afhamed of. "The72. Canon alloweth Prefbyters (yea all Chrifrians) to anoint the "fick,becaufe theStfhops hindered with other buînefs cannotgo to all thefick.] This intimateth that even then the Dioceffes were not fo great as ours that have one or many Counties, elfe other reafon would have been gi- ven why the Bifhop could not vifìt all the lick, than his hinderingbu- fineffes: Would the Bifhop, e, g. of Lincoln fay, I would vilt all the lick in Lincolnfhire, Nortbamptonfhire, Leicelerfhire, Hxntingtonfhire, Butlandfbire, Hartfordfhire, Bedfordfh.ire , Buckingham(hire, which are in my Diocefs, but that I am hindered by other bufinefs? who would take this for the words ofa lober man? § 57. CCLXXXIV. An. 869, was that Conftantinopolitan Council which the Papifts (damning force others) call the 4th. and the 8th. N n 2 General tn. `1
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