But in the fourth and fifth ages H. T. doth make us amends for his want of proof from the three first. But suppose he do, whats that to a succession, while the three first ages are strangers to Popery? Well! but lets hear what he hath at last. His first ⟨p. 147⟩proof (after a few silent names) is from the Council of Nice; And what saith that? why 1. It defined that the Son of God is consubstantial to his Father, and true God And whats that to Popery? 2 But it defined the Popes Sovereignty: But how prove you that? Why it is in the thirty ninth Arab. Canon. O what Consciences have those men that dare thus abuse and cheat the ignorant! As if the Canons of the first General Council had never been known to the world, till the other day that Alphonsus Pisanus a Jesuit publisheth them out of Pope Julius and I know not what Arabic book. These men that can make both Councils and Canons at their pleasure above a thousand years after the supposed time of their existence, do never need to want authority. And indeed this is a cheaper way of Canon-making in a corner, then to trouble all the Bishops in the world with a great deal of cost and travail to make them. But if this be the foundation, the building is answerable. Their Bishop Zosimus had not been acquainted with these new Articles of an old Council, when he put his trick upon the sixth Council of Carthage, where for the advancement of his power (though not to an universal Monarchy, yet to a preparative degree) he layeth his claim from the Council of Nice, as saying [Placuit ut si Episcopus accusatus fuerit, &c.] which was that If an ejected Bishop appeal to Rome, the Bishop of Rome appoint some of the next province to judge; or if yet he desire his cause to be heard, the Bishop of Rome shall appoint a Presbyter his Legate, &c.] In this Council were 217. Bishops, Aurelius being president, and Augustine being one. They told the Pope that they would yield to him till the true copies of the Council of Nice were searched; for those that they had seen had none of them those words in, that Zosimus alleged. Hereupon they send abroad to the Churches of the East, to Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, &c. for the ancient Canons. From hence they received several copies, which all agreed; but none of them had either Zosimus forgery in; nor the forged clause which Bellarmine must have in;
But in the fourth and fifth ages H. T. doth make us amends for his want of proof from the three first. But suppose he do, whats that to a succession, while the three first ages are strangers to Popery? Well! but lets hear what he hath at last. His first ⟨p. 147⟩proof (after a few silent names) is from the Council of Nice; And what saith that? why 1. It defined that the Son of God is consubstantiall to his Father, and true God And whats that to Popery? 2 But it defined the Popes Soveraignty: But how prove you that? Why it is in the thirty ninth Arab. Canon. O what Consciences have those men that dare thus abuse and cheat the ignorant! As if the Canons of the first General Council had never been known to the world, till the other day that Alphonsus Pisanus a Jesuite publisheth them out of Pope Julius and I know not what Arabick book. These men that can make both Councils and Canons at their pleasure above a thousand years after the supposed time of their existence, do never need to want authority. And indeed this is a cheaper way of Canon-making in a corner, then to trouble all the Bishops in the world with a great deal of cost and travail to make them. But if this be the foundation, the building is answerable. Their Bishop Zosimus had not been acquainted with these new Articles of an old Council, when he put his trick upon the sixth Council of Carthage, where for the advancement of his power (though not to an universall Monarchy, yet to a preparative degree) he layeth his claim from the Council of Nice, as saying [Placuit ut si Episcopus accusatus fuerit, &c.] which was that If an ejected Bishop appeal to Rome, the Bishop of Rome appoint some of the next province to judge; or if yet he destre his cause to be heard, the Bishop of Rome shall appoint a Presbyter his Legate, &c.] In this Council were 217. Bishops, Aurelius being president, and Augustine being one. They told the Pope that they would yield to him till the true copies of the Council of Nice were searched; for those that they had seen had none of them those words in, that Zosimus alledged. Hereupon they send abroad to the Churches of the East, to Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, &c. for the ancient Canons. From hence they received several copies, which all agreed; but none of them had either Zosimus forgery in; nor the forged clause which Bellarmine must have in;
