Baxter - BR161 B28 1680

444 ['httrcb.Hißory of . BiJhops in the fecond Sefton they decreed, as did that at Confiance, that a General Council isabove the Pope, inmatters of Faith, Schifme, and Reformation : And Seff.3. that the Council maynot be dilfolved: And they admonifh the Pope to retraft his Revocation, and to ownand afifi the Council. After they declare, that the Pope maynot make Cardinals, &c. during theCouncil. k. 26. Seff 2 a. Theycondemned a Book of efuguJtiaus de Roma, a Bi.. fhop of Nazareth, that had many Phanat ck Exprellions; as that aril daily finneth in us, becaufe ofour Union 'with him, though finlefs in him- felf; that only the Lied, and not all the Juflified, are Membersof Chrift that befides the Unionof Love, there muft be another Union with Chrift; that theHumane Nature in Chrifi is truly Chrift, and the Perlon of Chrift, and the Perlon of the Word; that thrill loveth his Humane Nature as much as his Divine ; that the two Natures are equally lovely; that the Soul of Chrifi feeth God as clearly as the Godhead, &c. Thus worketh the temerarious mindofman. 4.27. Seff.24. There is a Treaty for a more General Council' and Uni- onwith theGreeks; and the place afligned at Bafrl, elvignion, or Savoy; and todefray the charges, money tobe gathered of Chriffians, who,if they give j asmuch aswill keep their houfes a Week, are rewarded with the pardonof all their fins, where the liberality of their Pardons is exFounded ; viz. it is only the pardon of fuchfins de quibus corde contriti, & ore confeffîfaeriùt, which their hearts are contrite for, and their mouthsconfef ; and thefe are par- donedona furthercondition, that befides this money given, they do fora year fall one day every Week more than elfe they were obliged to do by the Church ; and if they be Clerks, fay every fuch day feven Pfalms, or a Mafs-; if Laicks, (even Pater,LNefters, and leven Ave Maries : And if it had not been for the Bithops, might not a contriteConfeffiorhave been certainly par- doned without fuck formalities. 4.28. In divers followingSellions they profecute Pope Eugenia,, and de- clare the Council'atFerrary to be but a Schifmatical Conventicle, and they efiablifh thefe Catholick, Verities, or Articlesof Faith. Sett. 33. i.That a General Council reprefenteth the whole Church, and bath its power immediately fromChrift, and thatover the Pope, and every other perfon-; and that this is a trutb ofCatholick, Faith. 2. That Each a Council lawfully congregate, may not withouttheir own confent be dJolved, prorogued, or transferred; and that this is an Article of Catholick Faith. 3. ihat apertinacious repugnerof thefe Verities is-to bejudged aHeretick. 4::9i Self. 34. They depofe Pope Eugenius as a fentenced, notorious, ob- ,ifinate perfiffingRebel againft the Precepts of the Vniverfal Church, and a daily violater and contemner° f the Canons, a notorious perturber of the Peace and77ni: ty of the Church op-God, anda notorious fcandalizer of the whole Church, a no- torious Simon, incorrigible perjured perfon, devious from the Faith, a pertina- eiou,,s Heretick, with-much moreflub... 4.30... Here

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