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Secondly, whereas he saith that the Councell of Nice, brought in the worship of Jmages, yet forbad that any Image should be adored with diuine honor; he both contra∣dicts himselfe, and vttereth another manifest falshood. [ D] He contradicts himselfe, in saying that the Nicene Councell forbad diuine worship of any Images: Seeing in another place he thus writeth, Both the Councell of Nice, and the Diuines of the Church of Rome, hold the Jmages of God, * and our Sauiour, and the Crosse, must be adored with diuine adoration. It is apparantly false, that the said Nicene Councell brought in the worship of Jmages, which might be prooued by many testimonies, but this only may suffice, that * [ E] Leo Isauricus before the Councell of Nice opposed Image worship, not as then beginning, but for many yeares before established in the Church; boasting that he was the first Christian Emperor, the rest hauing beene Idolaters, because Page  247 they worshipped Images: so manifestly did he oppose Anti∣quitie, [ A] and so little truth there is in M. Whites Assertion.