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He proves, that a council is ne- cefi!ary ; bccanfe feveral councils have extirpated here- iy, and depofed kings and emperors ; becaufe the poets afiTemble councils of the Gods; becaufe Mofes writes, that at the creation of man and at confound- ing the language of the giants, God aded in the manner of a council ; becaufe religion has three heads, doQrine, facramcnis, and charity ; and that thefe three are termed a council. He exhorts the members of the council to ftridt unity, like the heroes i...n the Trojan horfe. He afierts, that the gates of paradife and of the council are the fame; that the holy fathers fhould fprinkle their dry hearts with the living water that flowed from it ; and that otherwife the Holy Ghoft would open their mouths like thofc of Balaam and Caiphas (^). James I. of Britain dedicates his declaration againtt Voriftus to our Saviour, fn the following words : ** To the honour of our Lord and Sa- *• viour Jefus Chrifl, the eternal Son of the eternal Fa- ** ther, the only Thean-trophos, mediator and recon- ** ciler of mankind; in fign of thankfulnefs, his moft ** humble and obliged fervant, James, by the Grace of *' God, King of Great Britain, France, and IrcIanJ., ** defender of the Faith, doth dedicate and confecrate •* this (//) Father Paul's Hiflory of Trent, lib.
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