' [ 4~.5'] ritual ; Therefore their Place is more excellent · thanEmperours. as Heaven is above Earth. And the Difciple is not above his Lord. XXIV. An. 888. A Council at MentZ. faith, [That a King ruling impioufly and unjuftly, is a Tyrant and not a King.] XXV. Ibid. Where1s Clergymen were accu– fed for g<;tting their own Sifiers with Child, it was decreed, that no Presbyter accuf~ a Bi(hop, nor any Deacon a Presbyter: And that no Prelate be Condemned but under Seventy two Witnefies, and that the chief Prelate be Judged of no Man ; And a Cardinal Presbyter under Forty two Wit– neffes, and a Cardinal Deacon under Twemy fix, and Sub-deacons, Acoluthes, Exorcifis, Readers, Door-keepers , not under Seven Witneifes, and · all tbefe without Infamy having Wives and Chil– dren. (0 fecure vVickednefs 1) XXVI. Ibid. The Punii11ment of one Murder– ing even a Priet1 is , To forbear Flei11 and Wine, and not to be carried in a Coach, and not to come to Church in Five years, nor to the Sacrament .in Twelve.. 'XXVII. An. 895· In Concil. Tribr4r. If the Bi– ihop command the peop1e to meet in one place; and tbe Magit1rate in another, they mufr obey · the. Biihop, and not the Magifirate : He and all his Company i11all obey the Bi!hop. C. Io. No Bii11op fhall be depofed 'but by Twelve Biihops, nor no Presbyter but by Six , Biihops. · · XXVIII. An. 912. ACouncil at Confluence de– cree that none Marry within the Seventh degree. XXIX. An. 1 C49· Leo 9th and his Council of Biihops fit at Rhemes, though the King forbad · 1i 3 4t them.
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