3 ecíotto fait!). and in a holy Paflion brake the holy Tables. In the Coni antinopolitan Council held about the year of our Lord 754, how hot were the Bi- ihaps againtt Images as a meer Pagan ciitlom ! and when they were calf down, how trium- phant was the Peoples Zeal crying out, Hodiè Talus mundo, now k falation come to the uiirld ! In the fifth Council of Carthage they would have the very reliques of Idolatry totally blot- ted out. Nay, Leo Bill ;op of Rome, when the Manichees WorlhippLd the Sint, forbade the Chriftians to worihip towards the Eajl, that they might have nothing common with them. Such a Zeal doth Faith ítir up for the Worihip of God, and no lefs for the Truth of God : this is a precious jewel, a fecret out of theFa- thers bofom, a beam come down from Heaven to light us thither ; if this be l bverted, Zeal will hand up and vindicate it. Secttndus when he was commanded to deliver up his Bibles to be burnt, anfwercd, Chriflianus fum & nose traditor. In the firft General Councils how*/ carnal were the Fathers for the Faith > they. would not exchange a letter or fyllable of it : The Arrian aµaifscta, will not pars inf<cad of ZpA e-; nor the Nefiorian aeoNxe -, applied to Chrij.I as man, inftead of 076r&, applied to the blefed Virgin. With what an heroical and gallant fpirit did Luther cleave to the E- vangelical Truth ? Pia e ¡r & faniia hac in re noflra pertinacia; in this ours k a pious and holy íbJfinacy, faith he. Such a Zeal for truth doth faith taife up. In fum Faith hath a Engle eye 3 at 309
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