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

§. 19. LXXVIII. Theognostus having excommunicated Ithacius, and reprehended the Bishops, as irregular and bloody for procuring the Death of Priscillian, a Council called at Trevers did justify and acquit him: Unjustly, say, even Binnius and Baronius: who here repeat out of Sulpitius Martins once communicating with the Bishops there, to save two Mens Lives, and the Words of the Angel to him [Meritò, Martine, compungeris: Sed aliter exire nequîsti: Repara virtutem; resume Constantiam, ne jam non periculum gloriae,¹ sed salutis incurras: Itaque ab illo tempore satis cavit cum illâ Ithacianae partis communion misceri: Caeterùm cum tardius quosdam ex ergumenis, quam solebat, & gratiâ minore curaret; subinde nobis cum lachrymis fatebatur, se propter communionis illius malum, cui se vel puncto temporis necessitate, non spiritu, miscuisset, detrimentum virtutis sentire: sexdecim pòst vixit annos, nullam Synodum adiit, &c.

§. 19. LXXVIII. Theognostus having excommunicated Ithacius, and reprehended the Bishops, as irregular and bloody for procuring the Death of Priscillian, a Council called at Trevers did justifie and acquit him: Unjustly, say, even Binnius and Baronius: who here repeat out of Sulpitius Martins once communicating with the Bishops there, to save two Mens Lives, and the Words of the Angel to him [Meritò, Martine, compungeris: Sed aliter exire nequîsti: Repara virtutem; resume Constantiam, ne jam non periculum gloriae,¹ sed salutis incurras: Itaque ab illo tempore satis cavit cum illâ Ithacianae partis communione misceri: Caeterùm cum tardius quosdam ex ergumenis, quam solebat, & gratiâ minore curaret; subinde nobis cum lachrymis fatebatur, se propter communionis illius malum, cui se vel puncto temporis necessitate, non spiritu, miscuisset, detrimentum virtutis sentire: sexdecim pòst vixit annos, nullam Synodum adiit, &c.

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Is it not strange that Papists blush not to recite such a History with approbation, which expresseth a testimony from Heaven against far less than their Inquisition, Flames, Murders, Canons de heraeticis comburendis & exterminandis, and Deposing Princes that will not execute them. And which showeth such a Divine justification for separation from the Bishops and Synods of such a way, yea, though of the same Religion with us, and not so Corrupt as the Reformation found the Roman Papacy and Clergy?