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Church-history of the government of bishops and their councils abbreviated including the chief part…
Church-history of the government of bishops and their councils abbreviated including the chief part of the government of Christian princes and popes, and a true account of the most troubling controversies and heresies till the Reformation ... / by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed by B. Griffin for Thomas Simmons, 1680
Church-History OF BISHOPS And their COUNCILS ABRIDGED, &c. › Chapter 9
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
§ 24. CCXXVIII. We come now to a great General Council of 338 Bishops at Constantinople, An. 754. under Constantine Copronymus against the worshipping of Images:1 The Adversaries of it will not have it called the 7th General Council, because divers Patriarchs were absent, and it decreed, say they,2 against the Truth. They not only condemned the worshipping of Images, and Germanus Constantinus, Georgius Cyprius, Jo. Damascenus, and other Worshippers of them, as Idolaters; but destroyed the Relics of Martyrs, and exacted an Oath of Men (by the Cross, and the holy Eucharist) that they would never adore Images, but execrate them as Idols, nor ever pray to the holy Apostles, Martyrs, and blessed Virgin, saith Baronius and Binnius, p. 235. But the 15th and 17th definitions of this Council recited in the 2d Nicene Council,3 show that they were not so free from praying to the Virgin Mary and Saints, as we could wish they had: For they decree we must crave her intercessions, and theirs; but they forbade praying to their Images.
§ 24. CCXXVIII. We come now to a great General Council of 338 Bishops at Constantinople, An. 754. under Constantine Copronymus against the worshiping of Images:1 The Adversaries of it will not have it called the 7th General Council, because divers Patriarchs were absent, and it decreed, say they,2 against the Truth. They not only condemned the worshiping of Images, and Germanus Constantinus, Georgius Cyprius, Jo. Damascenus, and other Worshipers of them, as Idolaters; but destroyed the Reliques of Martyrs, and exacted an Oath of Men (by the Cross, and the holy Eucharist) that they would never adore Images, but execrate them as Idols, nor ever pray to the holy Apostles, Martyrs, and blessed Virgin, saith Baronius and Binnius, p. 235. But the 15th and 17th definitions of this Council recited in the 2d Nicene Council,3 shew that they were not so free from praying to the Virgin Mary and Saints, as we could wish they had: For they decree we must crave her intercessions, and theirs; but they forbad praying to their Images.