[ IO ] .for one, and fbme ·for another, that the Chrifiian World could no longer bear the mifchievous ef– feCt, France having one Pope, and Italy and Ger– :many another, expofe the Nations to blood, ·and the Chrifiian Religion to decay and [corn: Till neceffity forced the Emperor of Germany and other Princes, firfi .bY the Council of Conftance, and after by that at Bajil, to overtop, depofe·and .corrett the Popes. · §. VII. But when the Councils were ended, though a Decennial Council was decreed, and all means ufed to prevent relapfe, the chief Executive Pml\rer in the intervals being in the Monarch (the Pope') and it being the Pope, ·and not the Coun– cils tha.t gave Preferments, all the Councils De– crees againll: Abfolutenefs, and for Decennial Councils proved but empty words. The worldly Bi(hops clave to the Pope. Eugenius 4· condemned , and Depofed as an Heretick, Simoniack, &c. con– tinued in defpight .of his depofers, and their fuc– cefiion is froin him to this day. The Greeks by ne~effity were forced a: while to countenance a debauched Council at·Flo,rence, to undo what the .rither Councils had done, (who are th~re pro– nounced Rebellious Church-Parliaments, who would have changed the Univerfal Monarchy ;) But being cheated, they went home, and had fo fad entertainment by the Greek Church, as made · them repent~ and wia1 they had hearkened to • their M arctu Ephefus.. ' § VIII. Things returning to the old channel of Tyr~n·ny and Corruption, and their Clergy not re– forming, Reformers got a double advantage, r. By .rbe fenfe of the need of Reformation, which the -two Church-Parliaments, Conftance and Bafil (after . Pifa) •
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