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Show ~l f w~r tnrl Ptace . , Ctmfla7ttinum de with others are read. to have ca~ off their Jmptrio mta- Belts for Chrifl' s iake. So, m. former '()it ' mititt1[rm tu· nes, had one thoufand. ·one ht:Indred A . titare pr~:ttpe- d four likewife done m e,n.rmenra , "rt"r'tJ:a .4ab e~~t.eJ a~ o are remembred in the Martyrolo- YtftCU- Wll M d R . iar. o6~anc gies ', and~ in_ Egypt, enn_a a~ .. e· tlfUrllm ViJ/e1J- J' ht· • ., And io in the tunes of Ltctntm, 1' , . yc n<>~ , f. h dnitmuJ, quJa any cafl 0 ff their Bdts, o w om were lmper•tol' <po~ea t.An .ractUJ named amono the Confdfors, ~'a6lr1s e{t, & rJ' ' . f 0 d d B' Jf•iu 6 J 11 1,.. no ~t&u - atn~d :A.u.. x cnttttJ ' a cerwa r cm a c h 1- jecit cingul~m. {hop of Mop[veftia • . :Vhererore t cy, Non dt(flm1le t~ who touched in conlctence had once 1Jit~d v;aor 1 ft ~he Army 'had 110 accefs unto it f# JCC7t{iumar, e ' · · · b b d 1 rnultos fu~ HA- aoain, under Ltcm~as, ut. y enya nericho R. mi- of the Chri(Han Fatth. Whtch deny~!, 1 1 litiam ttmp9rll- becaufe it was fo much the more gne· lem •bi~eiff'e by how much their former att q~.M m Ar"IZ VOUS ' k 1 d f cu ' • did teftify their greater now e ge o Plifl"Hmnexa. the divine L'lw, therer"o re are. t h etre Apo • Hates more grievouily pumfhed than thofe mentioned in the form~r Canon, who without peril either of llfe or for· tunes had renounced Chriflianity. Bu.r, to interpret the alleged Canon of V~arfare in general; is againfl a\1 reafon: for the Hifl:ory plainly !hews , !heX, that had forfaken the Army u~Hier ~~; . . and returned not unto .lt dunn:J • chtlS.~ ru.rre '.t g.u.. , lell the-o- fhould violate the 1 h . . . . Chriltian Fau:h, liad their c ;nee given them afterward by Conftantine, . w:~~ ther they would be free fro~n ~ervtnh!~ the War, or elfe return agam. mto t er places ~which, without qu~fl:!On, 1t"Y did. . ' XXXII. eo s l. XXXII. Leo's Epi.ftle o6jefled and anfwered. SOme do alfo objeCl: an Epifl:le of LefJ, which faith : It is contrary to the Ecclejia{fictrl rules, after repentance, to return unto the fee alar warfare. But, we mufl: know, in penitents, as well as in the CJerks and Monks, was requi-red a ChriHian life, not of an ordina- • L(o Epift., ~ ry Hrein, but of a fingular . k~nd of' pu· ad Rut\. Wifi--. m· y ; t ha t t he y m·t? bt be as great e_x, ptO•!ril{ltlan m'Vtmf1 ttl,r_ amples * fer correcbon of ·manners, a g porret etia mrd· they had Qeen afore of tranfgreffiod. tis lhiti& abPiLikewife, . in the moll anti em cullom~ nert. ~" E.pifllof the Church, commonly dt.1led the A-. Ia Epi[cop_oriUIJ ponn o 1t.e a l C anons, that by th1.s 1r acred Rantg Ltmud o/vcgwi.ieiJ1I1U1 : name they mtght be the more reverently ~~~ztibtt tanto received, in the 8~. Canon it is enjoy~ 'i.[e fici!a dened : That no .Bijhop, Pres6yter or DM- btt abfc~ndtrt,_ ('On }f''o l/Qw. the War, and retein at once a mq~t ea&ntoI_0fleU.n~:e11 2f. ~man office and a fat:erdota/ Funtfion. p(r,rtr(lffe. I• For_te; Crefar have the, thing·J that are Capit. Ca~vi: Cetar s, and God t!Je tiJingJ that are Tanto rpnfq•t God's. Whereby it is manifeH VVar- mb IIJora qu~rlll r . d' .n. ' on~rum oper,., 1are wa~ not mte: l\,;,;ed fuch ChriHi-Ltscra, qua'lftJJ · aijs as dtd not afpue lUlto the honour graviora ftbi ;,_ of the Clergy. More than this, they al- tulit tlamna p fo were t ·e~cluded from the Cleroy tc~tlpttm;. wh o arct er Ba pt1·1r .m ha d medled eitoh er' m~Enf.tll{rtabtzuios mdu:ts· , d,r, 'b' br·p· : I. 1. d~tpliccm eJcn 1t c ~ Jlltllr~"!.viw11, 11li1m irmi, alittm in{triorem qui i• ~~~c {Nn&_ lfS 17lttl' 1/111 m q11i I ufti milil•nt llf,f71dQ indicart. ' vvith |