4 A religion, which hath continued these 1600. yeares in the true Church of Christ, not as Poperie▪ which for most of their opinions must come short of this computa∣tion by 800. yeares: which is full of errors, and contradi∣ctions, in the Decrees of Popes and Councels.
For errors, the Councell of Neocesarea ca. 7. decreeth, that the Priest should neither giue consent to second ma∣riage, nor be present at the mariage feast, but rather en∣ioyne penance for it, and so in effect condemneth second mariage.
Toletan. 1. ca. 17. He that in steed of a wife hath a con∣cubine, is not to be repelled from the Communion. This Councell is approued by Leo 4. as it may appeare, Can. 21. and the other also, Distinc. 20. ca. 1.
In the sixt generall Synod Can. 2. the Councell vnder Cypriane that approued the rebaptizing of such as were baptized by heretikes, is confirmed: c. 72. Mariages be∣tweene Catholikes and heretikes irritas existimari, are iudged to be void, contrarie to S. Paule, 1. Cor. 7.13. Yet this sixt Synod cum omnib. canonib. with all the canons is receiued and approued by Adriane, Distinc. 16. c. 5.
Nicen. 2. act. 5. it was concluded, that Angels haue bo∣dies of their owne, and are circumscriptible, & multoties in corpore suo visi, and haue been often seene in their own bodies: which is a manifest error: for Angels of them∣selues are inuisible spirits.
Nicolaus 1. de baptis. decret. 1. alloweth baptisme only made in the name of Christ, without expresse mention of the Trinitie, contrary to the scriptures, Math. 28.19.
Nicolaus 2. in a Councell at Rome, where Berengarius recanted, resolued vpon this conclusion, Christi corpus sen∣sualiter manib. sacerdotis tractari, frangi & fidelium dentib. atteri, That the true bodie of Christ was handled sensiblie by the Priests hands, broken and chawed by the teeth of the faithfull, de consecr. dist. 2. c. 42. which grosse opinion, the moderne Papists are ashamed of.
For contradictions, Concil. Carthag. 3. c. 47. the Apo∣cryphal bookes of Tobie, Iudith, Ecclesiasticus, Maccha∣bees,