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mild government, that he ordered 
‘the Mozarabic bishops to summon 
‘a council at Cordova, and to wipe 
‘off the scandal which their sedi- 
tious brethren had brought on all 
Christians, by censuring the con- 
duct of the Jate insurgents, and by 
‘issuing an order that they should 
‘not be worshipped as martyrs. 
Historians call this a satanical coun- 
cil, and condemn the bishops who 
obeyed the monarch, as apostates 
and false apostles. There was a 
vagabond monk, now called Saint 
Eulogius, a disciple of an abbot, one 
Father Hope-in-God, who published 
a memorial in a barbarous style, in 
defence of these martyrs, and filled 
with invectives against government, 
and the commissioners, and all other 
Christians, who deny that rioters 
‘were martyrs. This took so well 
‘with the bulk of tle Mozarabs, that 
they elected him Archbishop of 
Toledo: an honour whic!: he never 
enjoyed, for he was imprisoned, 
and executed for sedition. There 
were many enthusiasts, who ran up 
and down to make proselytes, rush- 
ing into the presence of judges in 
their courts, interrupting business, 
execrating the Mohammedan doc- 
trine of one God, and proving the 
Trinity by cursing Mohammed, and 
chanting about martyrs and mira- 
cles. The Mussulmen thought 
them drunk or mad; and they were 
obliged to confine some and punish 
others: but all were deemed saints, 
and most were dubbed martyrs.— 
Of such materials are martyrologies 
made ! 
‘The Mozarabs made use of a 
liturgy in divine service, concern- 
ing which learned men have thought 
_ it worth while to write many vo- 
Tames. Some think the Goths had 
a liturgy before their pretended 
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conversion, and that the original 
was an Arian composition. Others 
suppose that Leander began, and Isi- 
dore finished the present liturgy, 
for the purpose of obtaining an 
uniformity of worship, as the coun- 
cils held in the time of Reccared 
had ordered. Dr. Geddes says, 
“ In the beginning of the sixteenth 
century, the Mozarabic liturgy was 
printed by Cardinal Ximenes. Bat 
we are ceftain of that cardinal’s 
having made some alterations in it. 
The copy, which he had of the 
Mozarabic liturgy was destroyed, 
and with it all the rest, if there 
were any more at that time: there 
not being, that I can hear of, after 
much eaquiry, a manuscript copy 
of the Mozarabic liturgy any where 
to be met with.”? The present is 
a very contemptible compilation, 
and not worth the investigation of 
critics. There was, certainly, a 
Mozarabic liturgy; and successive 
Popes took great pains to get it 
laid aside in favour of the Roman 
office; but the kings could not 
gratify them, for it had been con- 
firmed by many councils in Spain. 
Tt was in the eleventh century, 
in the pontificate of Gregory VIT. 
and in the reign of Alpbonsus VI. 
who had lately conquered Toledo, 
that the Roman ritual was gerie- 
rally received. The clergy were 
obstinate; and it was determined to 
try the merits of the two missals 
by a combat, and then by casting 
both into a fire. ©The Mozarabic 
triumphed in both. The natives 
clamoured, and the old priests tri- 
umphed: but Queen Constance, 
who had been used to the Roman 
ritual, prevailed, and, in spite of 
the miracle, obliged the clergy to 
use if, She was a princess of 
France; and the ladies of that 
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