186 Church-Hißory of Difhops and .emu. r. Whether luflïnian's Ele&ion of a Pope was valid ? And if fo, Whether other variousEle&ors may do it as validly? z: Whether a Presbyter's Ordination of a Bifhop or Pope was valid ? If fo, Whether Presbyters may not ordain Presbyters? ...621/.. 3. Whether this Pope was truly Head of the CatholickChurch, when his Bifhops obeyed him not ? 4. Whether it was then believed at Rome itfelf,and in the Weft , that a General Council, approved by the Pope,was either infallible, or necellarily to be obeyed ? 5. Whether it be true which T .. f ohnfrn, alias Terret, ofren tells me,77at it is not pofble that there can be any Schfm in the Catholick Church, becaufe of the effintiality of its Union ? § s8. Note that this Pope Pelagius,-becaufe his. Bifhops rejè&ed him and the Council, got Narfes the General to compel them And thenwhocan doubt but he wasPope, and theyhisSubje&s ?' But Narfes fcrupled it, left he tltould be guilty of Perfecution; 7uflinian's. PopePeleigius tellethhim, it is no fin,and bids him not fear it ; foi it's no Perfe- cutiòn which compels not Men. to fin:. but all that :feparate from the Pòpe, and affemble feparatedly do fin, and are damned Schifmattcks; therefore he delreth him to fend the Bifhops of Aquileia, Milan,and the reif that yield not,Prifoners toConfl-antinople. Narfes obeyeth the Popeand Emperor; the Bifhops excom municate Narfes; thePopewriteth to him, that it is no news for erring Bifhops to take themfelves for the Catholick Church, and to forbid others their Com- munion, and counfellethhim to go on and reprefs.them. And the Civil Sword and theEcclefraflical were thus engaged in a RomanWar ; one Bifhop Sapandus of- Ares in France the Popegot fpecially to flick to him,whomtherefore he com- mended to King Childebert, &c. §'29. CLXXVI. A Council at Paris depofed Bifhop Saphoracusfor fome great Crime. § 3o. While the Romans were refolving to fubje& themfelves to the Goths again, becaufe the Pope made Narfes their Perfecutor,Narfes took it fo ill, that he Baronirie went away from them, but the Pope drew back, and he * fhortly died. Belli.. Contra- f orists alto was ruined, and f ufiinian himfelf fhortly dyed. Binnius faith it is diéìeth reported that he had noLearnin and thinketh that his Civil ,Laws were Tribo- Anafializa P g, & others nian s,and his Ecclefiallical Theodorizr C efarienfis s. And faith that the Church re- in this J jeð his Laws of Ufury, Churches and Ecclefiaflical Perforas, as arrogant Ufur- point. pations. . Whether the Roman Power was, then underftood by Princes or People? § 31. CLXXVIII. Another Synod at Parù'repeated nine old Canons The Baronias 8th wits, [ Ns man may be ordained aBifhop ageing the will of the Citizens,;. thinks nor any but whom the eleltionof the Peopleand the Clerks, fmall feekwith plenary Char The- will ; none fmall beput in by the command of the Prince, &c. d c om:re z. CLXXIX. An. 6 in the time of Poe ohn 3d. not he, but ) suas Na- § 3 5 3, P 3 Cher to Theodomire, alias's Ariamire King of the Sueves,called a fmall Council at Brae Attenne -caca inGalicia,where eight Bifhops opened fo much of the Prfcillian Herele, as . may.
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