332 ecioüo fa(tth the third Council of Carthage; and how the faxth Council of Cgnftantinople in confirming them both varies from it felf. The Judgment of the Church, bath been fübjed to Error the famous Council of Nice had two lapfes in it : in the twelfth Canon it forbids Chriflians, .cease riveacu, to return to their Military Em- ployment; and in the Ninteenth, it com- mands Rebaptization of fuch as were Baptized by Hereticks. The Emperour Zeno being ex.- puffed, the Tyrant Bafilifcus by the períwafi- on of Timotheus ,Ilurus wrote Letters in con- demnation of the General Council of Chalce- don ; unto which as impious as they were, no lefs than five hundred Bithops fubfcribed at the Tyrants Command. And touching the Canon, if the Council of Laodicea be right in it, that of Carthage is not fo ; and conic- quently that of Conftantin,ople, which takes in both, mutt needs be in an Error. Thefe things premifed; Can the unvariable and infallible Scripture hang upon a variable and errable Authority filch as Mans is ? May all the pre- cious Promifes of Life and Salvation be pc- carious and pendent on an Humane Arbitriur? Tertullian in his Apology fpeaking of that old Decree among the Romans,that no God fhould be confecrated without the approbation of the Senate, faith, Apud nos de humano arbi- trátu divinitac penfitatur, nifi homini Deus pla- cuerit,Deus non erit. If the Authority of Scrip- ture depend on the Church, then we may fay, Ni homini Scr ptnra placuerit, Scriptura non erit;
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