their Councils abridged. 29 3 gates may miftake, fó may he himfeif: Is it null-then till he reftifie his Error? 3. By this we fee how impotfible it is to know the new Gofple of the Papifts; which is Canonical from the Apocryphal. For (as Pope Martin's Conciliariter after,fo) here and elfwhere the Popes have fo am- biguoufly given their content that no wit of man can tell what'is con- fented, to by them, and what not (as their controverfies confeffed, émc. § 89. At leaft whether -the Pope confented or no, feeing in this Council the former 8th. General Council was condemned, and the fili- oque expunged the Creed, we fee how ridiculoufly our latePapifts ar- gue from the confent of Councils to prove the conftant Tradition ofthe -a Church, laying, Did the Councilgo to bed in one mind and rife in another? Did thefe 385 Bithops dofo? or did the former whom they condemn ed do fo? Is this the fmooth Current ofTradition? and may we know by it what our Fathers held? 9o. When the other Legates confented, Manaus, who was after Pope, ditfenting, he was laid in prifon thirty dayes at Con(tantinople. In the firft Mt of the Council, as Baronins tells us, ?ohn Bifhop of Heraclea fpake much againft the Church of Rome, which he Paid was the original of all the mifchiefthat had befaln them; to overthrow and- and cure which this Council was called. Much alto againft Pope Ni- colas and Hadrian he fpake, but for Pope ?ohn as being for them. In the 2d. Mt was read an epiftle of the Patriarch ofAlexandria, to the Emperor for abrogating the former Bth. Synod: And Thomas one of the three Legates of the EafternPatriarchs that confented to the for- mer Synod (the reft being dead) made his penitent recantation. Then the epiftles of the Patriarchs of Zernfalem and Antioch for. Photius are read, e?'c. In the third Afti Pope ?ohri's letters were read, as endea- vouring the peace of the Eaftern Church ; which the Council took, as a bufy pretending to more power than he had, and therefore Paid that they hadpeace before his letters came, and that they werefuperousts. And- whereas he made it his bufinefs by this complyance,_ to get the Bulga- rianDiocefs; They Paid this was to controvert the bounds of the Empire, and therefore left it to the Emperor. In the 4th Ad the Eaftern Patriarchs letters were read, difclaiming their Legates at the laft Council, as being not theirs but the Saracens Legates : and con- demning that Council. The Papifts think Photiats forged theft. Here altoLords profeffed repentance, laying that the falle Legates deceived them. In the 5th. Mt Metrophanes Bifhop ofSmyrna is accufed of Schifm, for being againft Photiu;. ThreeCanons alto were made. a. That thofe excommunicate by the Bifhop of Rome lhould not be reftor- ed by the Bifhop ofConf emtinople. Nor thole that were excommuni- cated by theBifhop of Conftantinople be reftored by the Bifhop ofRome: (and fo Rome was fhut out from troubling them with pretended jurif- diftion.) . z. That thol that forfake their Bilhopricks (hall not return- to them. 3. Againft Magiftrates that enflave and beat Bithops. In the
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