lecíauo iaít: the name of the Sacred Trinity fhould not be reiterated, all crying out, Abfit, againft reitera- tion. In the feventh General Council of Con - fantinople the 338 Bi(hops cried down Images might and main, etsomodo Dei matron, pant obumbravit plenitudo Deitatir,vulgaris Gentilium ars pingere audet ?non f is eff Chri(lianir, qui fpem Re1urreltionis habent d.emonum culture con- Juetudinibus uti ; ftagitium ell', as Gregoriaar Theolozus Paid, Fidem habere-in coloribus non in cerde. Qicgloriam& fplendoremChriffi efgiare pefret mortuis coloribus ? faid Eufebius Pamphili, in his Letter to the Emprefs Conftantia. One would have thought that the broken Images would never have been fet together again ; but within lets than halfa Century comes the fecond Council of Nice, and there the 3 50 Bi- fhops bring in Images again under the wings of the old Cherubims, and fet them up upon 'Jacobs Pillar, and back them with Fathers and Miracles. They throw out Anathema's againft the Iconoclaffs, and rejeec with a Curfe the Books of Enf bins as a Man delivered over in reprobuin f nfi!m.And are well perfwaded that Angels are Corporeal,and may be piaured. A# little after, and within the fame half - Century comes the Council of Francfard halting between both the former, fpeaking half in the Language of Afhdod, and half in the pure Language, allowing Images, but de- nying any Worfhip to them. And as touching the Canon, it will afterwards appear, how the Council of Laodicea differs about that from the 331
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