274 ARevelation ofthe Apocalypfe. C A r. 8. fit to take down the infolency of the young Popeling , and free- ly to taxe the Romilh ambition ; And hereupon they anfwer, that the Church ofRome indeed lothfirive and contend With all men a- bout honour, as if fire hadbeen made the School ofthe Apofles, from the beginning, and the mother city of piety, although the teachers them_ felves of the doctrine came forth of the EaR, andWere men that lived in that region,&c. To this device ofbragging thus infolently of theApo- joke Chaire, was added another, namely, a crafty interpretation ofall complementall duty, as if it had been dueobedience : they falu- ting them by the namesof $rethren,and Collegues,they refaluted them with the names ofmolt honourable Sons, and other notable conveyan- ces of that kind, as Damafus in an Epiftle to the Syno o Conftanti_ nople; In that, faith he, your charity my me honour ones, cloth yeelddue reverence to the Apolt©like Chaire, thereinyoàaget unto your felves much reverence. For although it belong to us efpecially, tofit at the Helme,WhichWe have r.2-71 uponus to governe in that holy Church, Where the holy Apeflefate as Dollor, yet We acknowledge ourfelves, to be unitvorthy offo great honour, &c. Theodor: Book. 5.9. The charity of the Pope Of Rome was incredible, that could embrace fo many Bifhops then prefent in the Councell, no other wife then as if they had beenhis Sons. In the nextAge the infatiable defire ofho- nour broke out more openly; Three molt holy Topes, who.nö doubt could not erre, they were foholy, thas is, Zozimu.u, Roniface and Ca- leflinvs, convided of fe rgerie, by falfìfying the Aicene Councell, to flablifh their Principality. The fixt Synod of Carthage ( though it reprovefo del-citable an a/, more gently then Was meet) Writeth than unto Calefline, that it couldnet finde anyfilch thing in the more true copies of the Nicene Councell, Which they received, as they Were font, taken out ofthe Authentike records by holy ()rill, and Atticus of Con= ftantinople, Whichyet theyhad lately fet down, being taken as out of a part ofthe 2Kicene Councell, and font by Faufinns, and therefore it ad- moniJheth him, not to commitfuch afin as that he Jhould feeme to bring in the (nok y andfWellingprideof the World into the Churchof Chrifl. Thus in a ihort time impudency grew to an height,neither did it ceafe afterwards,till ` gnse the Oonquerelle,had got away the Applewhich they all flrove for, from all other Churches. The Fathers of .Nice had an intent to provide for the quietneffe of the Church, by placing certain chief Patriarckes as it were in a Watch-tower , above the refit; but the event convinceth them both tohave been in a very great errour, and to have bellowed their labour to very badpurpofe , and withall
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