z48 Church-1101y of Ira ops and Man'sBelly will hold fix pounds of Wine and Water every day , unlefs it pali as Tunbridge Waters, without prefent Suffocation, or a Droptie. I would hope that I underíitand,not this Chapter in the Council, but that thefe Ca- nons had fome Beggars that were to partake with. them , but that I find no encouragement for my charity in the Text or Hiftory : But verily if it were as it is written, I wonder how thefe abfemious Monks did efcape death by their, Gluttony and Drunkennefs one week or day without Phyíìck;motwith- tcanding that the Councilgiveth you notice, cap. I 22. lin. ult. that a pound bath but i 2 ounces. § 119. We mull not unthankfully omit what kindnefs Anafiafius (faith Pope Pafchal) (hewed to the Engl4h : By negligence their -Houk at Rome was burnt, and the Pope ran out bare-foot, and where he flood, the Fire Zræ fi fopt *; therefore.he floodbare-foot there tillmorning, that the Fire might vita fine, be fullyquenched. But this he did for the love of St. Peter, whole Church faith h was in danger by the Fire. m- ins fey. § a to. The Papifis here bring forth aConfitution out of theirown Li- brary, by whichLudovicus confirmerh to the Popes all that ever his An- ceforsgave them, and addeth fo much, that he was then made (if this be true ) (as the Geographia Nubienfis callshim) the King of Rome indeed. And they meerly feign that Charles and Ludovicus Pius made none of thefe Lawsof themfelves, but by the Pope's advice , againíl plain evidence of Hiftory. 4 a z a. A Convention of Abbots at Aquiifgrane, and another of Bithops, and a Synod at Engelheim follow, and one at Attiniac, in which they fay the Emperor penitently lamented his feverityagainf his NephewBernard, and others, with openConfeßïon and Penitence. And indeed his great endeavors topromotePiety, and to reform the Clergy ; his frequent Councils (in which it was he, by the advice of a fewchief chofen Men,that did their bufinefs,and governed all ) with the tell of his Life defcribed by the Writer of it, and other Hiflorians, do fhew that he wasjuflycalled Pius, though Wars will caufe manyaélions to be repented of. 4 s zz. Platina faith, that Ana(lafus faith, that Ludovicus gave Pafcbal thepower offreely ehufang Bithops, which before was not done without the Em- perors. ( The Peoples confent fill fuppofed. ) § a t 3. The Pope being dead, two are chofen ( which was the i t th Schifm) but Eugenics the s.d carried it, the Emperor fending his SonLotha- rius to fettle thePeace of theCity, jamdudum Pnefulum quorundam perver- firate depravatam, faith the Author of the Life of Ludovicus ; where Mur- ders of the chief Men had beencommitted in the Schifin, and Mens Goods taken away, and much confufion made. § t 2.4 In the Eaf.the Party,that were againf Images, prevailed ever fince Irene the Woman that let them up was depofed and dyed ; her Son Conflantine, whom the murdered, being not for them before, nor Nrcephorus that depofed her after ; But Leo 5 Armenus that fucceeded Michael Curop. earnef
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