(I4Ö) Council.] But thePopes ever fenceyet rejea that Conn: cil on pretenfe that by [conciliariter] was meant all that de jute as a Council they might do. Gregory the firffap- provedofthe four firft General Councils, receiving them as the four Gofpels (and if his Predeceffors did not, it was becaufe their confent was not taken to be neceffary, nor much fought.) And yet now Bellarmine raileth at the Council of Calcedon, and they tell us how much of it they receive andhow much not. And fo ofmany others. And nothing is more evident in fuch Hiftory, than that the Emperors and not the Pope, were they that called divers ofthe firft Councils. Ix. the Pope accordingly claimeth a fupremacy above General Councils ; that he may difolve them5 but they cannot pep"; or depofe him ; though General Councils have decreedthe contrary. I recited Binnius words before, vol. 2. p. 515. Pighits, Gretfer's, Bellarmine's, and multitudes more might loon be produced to the fenfe ; The eighth General Council at Confiantinaple faith, can. 2 I. that [" None "muff compofe any Accufations againft the Pope] Vid. " Bellarm. de concil, li. 2. c. i I. Saith Pighius, Hier. Eccl. li. 6. ["The Councils ofcon- CG fiance and Balilwent aboutby anew trickand pernicious " example to deffroy theEcclefiaffical Hierarchy ,and in- ` ftead ofit to bring in thedomination of a promifcuous `c confuted popular multitude ; that is, to raife again Ba- t'. bylon it felf; fubjeding tothemfelves, or the Commu -. "pityofthe Church(whichthey falflypretended that they " reprefented) the very Head and Princeof the whole Church : and him that is the Vicarof Chrift himfelf in ` thishis Kingdom-; and this againffOrder andNature; ,"agarnft
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