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

§ 101. CCXXXVI. An. 809. Was another Council at Constantinople, which was gathered to condemn honest Theodorus Studita,¹ & Plato, and such as had been against the restoring of Joseph, of which saith Binnius, [When the Bishops there Congregate had brought the most holy Plato in Chains to be judged, and had passed the Sentence of Anathema on the Universal Catholic Church^* that was against their Error, they made a most wicked Decree, that the Marriage of Constantine with Theodota, (his Wife yet living, thrust into a Monastery) should be said to be lawful by dispensation. They added for the Emperor's sake this wicked and shameless Sentence, That the ⟨p. 243⟩Laws of God^* can do nothing against Kings; and that if any imitate Chrysostom, and shed his Blood for Truth and Justice, he is not to be called a Martyr: That Bishops have power to dispense with all the Canons.] Remember that Papists confess all this to be wicked. We have not the Acts and Speeches of these Councils preserved.

§ 101. CCXXXVI. An. 809. Was another Council at Constantinople, which was gathered to condemn honest Theodorus Studita,¹ & Plato, and such as had been against the restoring of Ioseph, of which saith Binnius, [When the Bishops there Congregate had brought the most holy Plato in Chains to be judged, and had passed the Sentence of Anathema on the Universal Catholick Church^* that was against their Error, they made a most wicked Decree, that the Marriage of Constantine with Theodota, (his Wife yet living, thrust into a Monastery) should be said to be lawful by dispensation. They added for the Emperor's sake this wicked and shameless Sentence, That the ⟨p. 243⟩Laws of God^*