Church-history of the government of bishops and their councils abbreviated including the chief part…

But the adverse Council, or the Answer, raileth at this as an abominable Speech, (Crab. p. 567.) as if the Sacrament might not be called, The Image of Christ, (though de re they seem not at all to differ) saith the Constantine ⟨p. 233⟩Council, [Imaginem totam electam, viz. substantiam panis mandavit upon, ne scilic•t, humanâ effigy figurata, idolatria induceretur.] A Deo tradita Imago Carnis ejus panis scilicet Divinus impletus est Spiritu Sancto, cum poculo quoque sanguinis lateris illius vivificantis. Haec igitur vera incarnatae dispensatienis Christi Dei nostri Imago sicut praedictum est, quam ipse nobis verus naturae vividus Creator propriâ voce tradidit.

But the adverse Council, or the Answer, raileth at this as an abominable Speech, (Crab. p. 567.) as if the Sacrament might not be called, The Image of Christ, (though de re they seem not at all to differ) saith the Constantine ⟨p. 233⟩Council, [Imaginem totam electam, viz. substantiam panis mandavit appon•, ne scilic•t, humanâ effigie figurata, idolatria induceretur.] A Deo tradita Imago Carnis ejus panis scilicet Divinus impletus est Spiritu Sancto, cum poculo quoque sanguinis lateris illius vivificantis. Haec igitur vera incarnatae dispensatienis Christi Dei nostri Imago sicut praedictum est, quam ipse nobis verus naturae vividus Creator propriâ voce tradidit.

§ 73. Note also (Crab. p. 568.) that the Constantin. Council plead, That this use of Images began neither by the Tradition of Christ,¹ nor of the Apostles, nor of the Fathers: And that the Answer saith, that [The Veneration of Images was delivered with many other things without Scripture, from the Apostles time, &c.