their Councils abridged. 2 g 'Oh, faith Nicetas,What flupídityywhatpravity of aperverfe mindwas ' this ? What excefs of Envy ? What Rudy of ambitioas Difhonefly ? Did ' thy daily meditation and night-watches, and innumerable Books teach thee 'this? Did thy frequent reading and difputation, and fltiving for the e praife of learning teach it thee ? Did the knowledge of the OldTeflament e and theNew, the fayings of theWife, the Decrees of the Holy Fatherr, ' teach thee to perfecute a poor man, and to vex and kill one of a broken. ' heart andfpirit ? Did not thy tyranical ejelIion, of him fatiate the im- ' placable fury of thy mind, &c? Thus Nicetas. As much as to fay, Much learning, and great power and places, are too often feparated from Honefty, Charity and Confcience. Here he tnentioneth a terrible Dream of Bardas, and the muçder of himby Bafiliu4's order, and the Emperor's confent ; and howbafely Pho- tius cryed him down when he was dead, who was his onely Friend and Patron while he lived. Next he tells us how the Emperor, byPhotiou's perfuafion, called a General Council, which depofed Pope Nicolas,,as he had done Phocas*. * Did the The other Patriarchs and the Bithops were affembled, and the Pope Church anathematized : And theHiftorian blames it as cauflefs ; but it was then then hold e thwe as common]Y held that a Council might judge and depofe any Pa- the Su- triarch. The Alts of the Council Photius fent toKingLudovicus and others in ppreme fray and France, that they might depofe the Pope (by two Bifhops, Baler and viz, of Calcedon, andLaodicea.) It's Paid he fpalce evil to the Emperor Judge? of Bafrlius, and to Bafrlius of the Emperor. Bafilins murdereth the Emperor, and the next daydepofeth Photius, and thrufts him into an Hofpital, and calls home Ignatius ; and fo gets Ignatius's Party on his fide, towhich he refolved to add the Pope : Therefore fending to Pho- rius for the Patriarchate Writings,and he faying he had left them all be- hind him, the Servants of Photius were feen ftriving about (even Bags of fealed Papers ; which being furprized,were found to be the Ads of theCouncil, and the Condemnation of Pope Nicolas. Ignatius was odioufly accufed and abufèd in them. Many Picttures made of him : over one writtenDiabolus : over another Principium peccati : over an- other Filiusperditionis : over another AvaritiaSimonia Magi: over an- other, [ fe extollit fupra omne id quod dicitur east colitur Deus : ] over the fixth, Abominant defolationis : and over the feventh, [Anti- -3 chrifius. ] Reader, how (hall a man know what Hiftory to believe that charalterizeth Adverfaries ? and how little is the judgment and applaufe of man to be regarded, or their condemnation of us to be feared ? ' I would not (faith 1Vicetas) mention thefe things, but that Ifee the ' Authors and theirfollowers own them, and make Photius a holy man. The next part of the Book, faith Niteroi, [ ` Synodicus in Nicola- ' um Pontificem Romanum tela torquebat, omnifgtee generis calumnias c1 atracia maledslla, in ildiotsSancti exauftorationem & damnationem coCm- O o 'plci c-
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