44.. Church- 0u of bi' ops and withiñ o e year, Niteehorus. depofed and-banifhed:'her.into Lesbos, where- (he dyed, and he toók theEmpire to him1,"elf. § 95, Binnius, p. 44.5 faith, " [That the Emperor, bartifhed Theodore "&u i,ta,for reproving his Marriage, and-when he added crime to crime,' " Meritó juffe Marris -quam imperio exuerat, aelo jufliti non regni, oculis, " imperio, & vitd orbatus-eft. By the command; of hie -A Mother in her zeal " for juftice,-he was defervedlydeprived of his Empire, Eyes and Life.] What is not tuft with fuch Hiftorians, that maketh for their Intereft ?'And howcon- temptible is their Cenfure of good or evil Men, which hath no better Mea- fures ? § 96. He tells us,alfo, (- p..444.) that the Sparse and French Bifhops at three times, of their own heads,without thePope, added [Filioque) to the Creed, which bath to this day made fo great a ftir. It feems they- thought that the Pope's Authority was not neceffàry to it. § 97. He, adds, that Charles the Great being dead, the Peoplegrew bold,: and rofe up again againft the Pope ; which occafionedRapines, Flames, and - Murders, that Ludovicusthe new Emperorwas fain to take his Fathers Of-` flce, and come: toRome to fave the Pope, and fupprefs theRebels. § 98. The.Venetian. Duke killingaPatriarch, :Man. Gradenfts, Paulus Pa- triarch of Aquileia called a Synod to craveaid of Charges. § 99. CCXXXV. An. 806. ACouncil was eld at-Conflantinople,in the: Caufeoftheforefaid f ofeph that hadmarried the mperor to his fecondwife, whohad been eje&ed byTaraftus from his Bilh rick, and the Emperor,cal- lingaCouncil,they re- tored-him ; wherefore heodorusStuditacalled them.a Council of Herencks andAdulterants,becaufe they reftored-the Cadet ofthe Emperor's Adultery. But how few Emperors have not found Councils of. Bifhops ready to do their Will ? § too. Charles the Great making his Will, divided his Empire between . his three Sons, giving them. Laws of Communion and Succeflion, (that if one dyedwithout Children, his Kingdom be divided between the other two; a3 but if he have fuch Sons as the People will choofe, they fucceedtheir Father : ) Commanding all three that theybe the Defenders of the Bifhop of Rome, as he and his Father and Grandfather had been (to their com- modity. ) § t os. CCXXXVI. An. 809. Was another Council at Conflantinople, e which was gathered to condemn honed Theodora Studita, & Plato, and filch This is as had been againft the reftoringof f ofeph,of which faith Binnius, "[When not the "theBifhops there Congregate had .brought the mad holy Plato in Chains to kit time,." be judged, and had palled the Sentence of Anathema on the Univerfal Catho- thatCoun- "lick Church* that was againft their Error, they made a moll wicked ufe De ceirs.fhatvhee "cree ' that the Marriage of Conflantine with Theodota, (hisWfeyet living, ; Caeholick " thruft into a Monaftery)fhould be fad to be lawful by djenfation. They, Çhurch., "addedfor the 4mperor':i. fake thin wicked and fhamelefs Sentence; That the "Laws
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