and their Councils Abridged. 445 4.3o. Here I would crave the Readers confideration : r. If this extra- ordinaryGreat Council erred in al I thefe mattersof fad, whether the judg- mentof, a Council be a good proof of the Papifis fort of Tradition ? a. If they erred in thefe Articlesof Faith, whether it weaken not both their Tradition and grounds of their faith ; and whether fuch an heretical perjured Popes confent would have made them Infallible ? 3. Whether their General Councils be not contradictory de fide, as this, and that at Florence and Lateran exprefly are. 4. Whether a great part of the Church ofRome, and their Taft named Councils, be not Hereticks in the judgment of this Council? 5. Seeing Pope Eugenius continued when the Council had depofed him as a Simonili, and perjured pertinacious Heretick, and all their following fuccelhon is fromhim, is there not a nullity in that fitceeífìon ? 4.3z. Sefh 36. Theydecreed the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary, as a point of Faiths and yet manyof their Doctors take it yet as un. determined, and many (kill areof the contrary mind: 4.32. After this followDecrees about Elet`dion of a Pope, and they make the Dukeof Savoy Pope,Felix 5. andfo we have two Popesagain. Onuphrius calls this the thirtieth Schifme: He continued Pope above nine years, and then 'refigned'to Eugenios for Peace. Seff. lag : -They recite the Herefresof Pope Eugenio:, as againft the forefaidVerities. 4.33 Next is added the Bull of Pope Nicholas the 5. approving the AEfsanddeedsof the Council at.Bafil: And then are divers Synodical E- pifilesand- Anfwers, fpccially.proving Councilsabove the Pope, and againfl his Crimes, and of the jutlnefsof hisdepofition, very large; as alto againfi his Conventicle Council, and againfi his Adherents, that is, moik of their Church lince, withAnfwcrs tohis Invedives, and Monitories to drawmen fromhis obedience. In theAppendix are many more Epiftles and Orations, anda Treatife of the Patriarchof Antioch,- prove the Pope aboveCoun- cils. Thereare many Epiftles of the Pope againft the Council, and of the Empereur to the Council, andof manyother Princes. 4.34. The BohemiansEpiftles place their main caufe upon the four fore- mentioned Articles : ` I. The Sacrament in . both kinds. II..That _the Word of God may be freely, publickly, and truly preached by thole that it belongeth ta. `(for theywere frlenced, &e.) III. That Civil Dominion (they meannot all `Propriety: but Power of the Sword, or force over mens Etlates and perloess which is the Magifkrates) as adeadly poyfon be taken from the Clergy, (they ` fpake from feeling.) IV. That publtck, and great or heynous fins, may be. ex- ' tirpatedfrom among, the vulgar of the faithful by lawful. Powers. This was the Religionof the Bohemians, and the denying of thefe was the coufe of all their cruel Perfecutions, and the blood there fhed, . 4.35. In confutation of theft Demands are adjoyned four-Treatifcs of the four Preachers that fpake againfl them: What Gaffe fo great or plain, that to-n cannot talk againft with many and confident words. I. Job. Itagnjius acknowledged the regulating fuficiency of the. Scripture, bath an
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