their Councils abridged 383 q Rya divina nataa non effet incarnate. And fome feífer, as x. That attenuatingmans merits, hePaid None merited but Chrf.. 2. Evacuating the Sacraments of the Church, be fail None were truly baptized, but chofe that were to be laved: And filch like other things. The Pópe and the Prelates heard the Charge : Two Mafrfrs are brought out egainf} him, who fware that theyheard tome of thefè things from his mouth; many wondering thatiearned- Men ufed Oaths inftead of Arguments, ( faith OttoFrifing. ) After many Charges and Urgencies, he faid, [Áúda&'cer con- fiteor Patrem alio of Patrem, alio Deum, nec tames de hoc & hoc.] that is, it is one thing to be God, and another to be the Father, ( or the words are not of the fame fignification ) andyet God is not one thing, and the Father another thing.] The hardnefs of thefe words feeming a prophaneNovelty, provoked the Bifhop of Sons to fay, [What fay you-, That the Beingof God is no- thing?] having not read or underftood Auftin, that faith, [ Sic aliud eft Deo ofe,, aliadfubfiftere ; flout aliad Deo effe, aliad Patrem offe, vel Dominano effe : &uod enim eft ad fe dicitur : Pater autem adFilium, U'"' Dominos adfervien- tern creaturarre.] TheBifhop of Soions mifufing a faying, [Cum quit diceret, Socratem efe nihil diceret. ] He turned the Auditory againft himfelf ; and they asked Por- retane to open why he fo dif'inguifhed the' Perfons; who anfwered, omnis perfona eft perfe una.] whichpuzled or amazed them, and ended that days work. The next day he was accufed of Novelty, for faying that [ T.he three per- fens were triafingularia. TheArchbifhop of Rouen aggravating it, faid that (Godf laould rather be caged Mama fangulare, than triafingularia. At which manywere offended, becaufé Hilary faith, [ Sirat duos Deos dicere profanum eft, itafingularem erfolitaritu s dicere facrilegum efir Et nihil folitarium ex divinis Sacramentis adfufficionern audientium occafionene bl4ohemantium proferamtts. ] But Porretane told them, that byfangelar, he meant nothing but excellent and incomparable. In this manner Yorretane, Bithop of Poiltiers, was examined, and modeftly anfwered them many days ; till the Pope per- ceiving that thefe School niceties being too hard for him, durff not determine them, nor gratifieBernard (though his Friend)' and the HereticatingBithops and Clergy, but craftilyput it off to a GeneralCouncil. This is all out of Otto Frifing. recited by Bin. p. í 3 3 z. You may 'fee here what work Hereticating Prelates and Councils were in ciinated to make. If all the'Schoolmens fubtile Affertions (-found and un- found ) muff thus be tryed in General Councils,and all that was difliked,cal- led Herefies, though it would have íhamed the Prelates ignorance, it would have afrighted daring Wits from their prefumption ; and fince Ihave feen the tendency of Cartefaanifm,Gaffendianifm,and -other Epicurean Follies,I did not care much if wehadTome fuch ignorant Prelates to afright thefe bold Philofo- phers alfo. I have oft marvelled why General Councils that underífood not the He- brew
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