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

I have oft marvelled why General Councils that understood not the Hebrew ⟨p. 384⟩Tongue, (nor the Pope's Western Councils the Greek) have no more exercised themselves in Councils to judge of Scripture, Copies, and Translations. And I have thought in what words and manner they would have prosecuted such debates: sure falsifying Scripture is of as dangerous consequence as these School presumptions. Some will think it is well that the Councils for above 1000 years had so few that understood the original language, or else they would have so tossed and torn, and sensed and nonsensed the Scripture, that they would have made it quite another thing.

I have oft marvelled why General Councils that understood not the Hebrew ⟨p. 384⟩Tongue, (nor the Pope's Western Councils the Greek) have no more exercised themselves in Councils to judge of Scripture, Copies, and Translations. And I have thought in what words and manner they would have prosecuted such debates: sure falsifying Scripture is of as dangerous consequence as these School presumptions. Some will think it is well that the Councils for above 1000 years had so few that understood the original language, or else they would have so tost and torn, and sensed and nonsensed the Scripture, that they would have made it quite another thing.

§ 171. CCCCXIX. Yet we have not done with Heresies. A Council at Rhemes, called by the banished Pope, tried a mad man, an illiterate Rustic, called Eum, one unworthy to be called an Heretic, saith Otto Frising, who said he was the Son of God, &c. whom they sent to Prison, where he dyed.

§ 171. CCCCXIX. Yet we have not done with Heresies. A Council at Rhemes, called by the banished Pope, tryed a mad man, an illiterate Rustick, called Eum, one unworthy to be called an Heretick, saith Otto Frising, who said he was the Son of God, &c. whom they sent to Prison, where he dyed.