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

But 1. Is it not a General Council if the Popes Legates consent till he personally confirm it? Were all former Councils null, till the Popes personal confirmation? what are his Legates for then? 2. As his Legates ⟨p. 293⟩may mistake, so may he himself: Is it null then till he rectify his Error? 3. By this we see how impossible it is to know the new Gospel of the Papists; which is Canonical from the Apocryphal. For (as Pope Martin's Conciliariter after, so) here and elsewhere the Popes have so ambiguously given their consent that no wit of man can tell what is consented to by them, and what not (as their controversies confessed, &c.

But 1. Is it not a General Council if the Popes Legates consent till he personally confirm it? Were all former Councils null, till the Popes personal confirmation? what are his Legates for then? 2. As his Legates ⟨p. 293⟩may mistake, so may he himself: Is it null then till he rectifie his Error? 3. By this we see how impossible it is to know the new Gosple of the Papists; which is Canonical from the Apocryphal. For (as Pope Martin's Conciliariter after, so) here and elswhere the Popes have so ambiguously given their consent that no wit of man can tell what is consented to by them, and what not (as their controversies confessed, &c.

§ 89. At least whether the Pope consented or no, seeing in this Council the former 8th. General Council was condemned, and the filioque expunged the Creed, we see how ridiculously our late Papists argue from the consent of Councils to prove the constant Tradition of the Church,¹ saying, Did the Council go to bed in one mind and rise in another? Did these 385 Bishops do so? or did the former whom they condemned do so? Is this the smooth Current of Tradition? and may we know by it what our Fathers held?

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