The establish'd church, or, A subversion of all the Romanist's pleas for the Pope's supremacy in England together with a vindication of the present government of the Church of England, as allow'd by the laws of the land, against all fanatical exceptions, particularly of Mr. Hickeringill, in his scandalous pamphlet, stiled Naked truth, the 2d. part : in two books / by Fran. Fullwood ...

SECT. VII.

Concil. Constant. of 289 Bishops. 6 Ge∣neral. An. 681 vel 685. Concil. Nic. 7 General. of 350 Bishops. An. 781.

BEllarmine acknowledgeth these to be sixth and seventh general Councils; and both these he acknowledgeth did condemn Pope Honorius for an Heretick. lib. 4. de Pont. C. 11.

For Bellarmine to urge that these Councils were deceived in their Judgment touching his opinion, is not to the point; we are not disputing now, whether a Pope may be a Heretick in a private or publick Capacity, in which the Councils now condemned him; though he seems to be a bold man, to prefer his own bare conjecture a thousand years after about a matter of Fact, before the judgment of two general Councils, consisting of 659 Bishops; when the cause was fresh, Witnesses living, and all circumstances visibly before their eyes: But our question is whether these Councils did either give to the Pope as such, or acknowledg∣ed in him an uncontroulable Authority over the whole Church? The Answer is short, they took

that power to themselves; and condemned the Pope for Heresie as they also did Sergins of Con∣stantinople.