their Councils abridged. t5a AAnt -And t. Did not evenGregory Mag.as much flatter a worfe Man and Muroerer,Phocas? and his Succeflors him and many more? z. Did not many, if not mofr of the Emperors, Heathen and Chrifrian, come in by Murder, or Invafion, and llfurpation ?,And were Men therefore &fòbliged from obeying them, when they were fetled,by fùbmiilive implicite content ? .. ,3. But the venomof the Cardinal Jefuite's anfwer is,that he taketh it to., be bate Flattery, to fay that Princes are by 'God's difpofe the Governors of the Church: For thenwhat are the Bithops for ? And muff the wòrld be ridden and abufedbyfuch Men, that would turn Princes out of all Government of the Church, and underhand not that the Government of the fame Church, may belong to the Magifrrate and the Paffors refpeErively, ( as theGovern- ment of an Hofpital to the King, and to the Phyfician?) May not one rule aatd punifh by theSword, and another by the Word, by Teaching, and the ChurchKeys? Is it not one thing to Fine,. and Beat, and Banifh, and Kill a Man, and another to fentence him unmeet for Church-Communion? Mar- vellous, that God permitteth the worldso be deluded by fuch a blinded or blinding Clergy, though as learned as Bellarmine, that would make thefe things Teem inconfifrent, and feparate what Godbath conjoined! See here to what theRoman Clergy would reduce Kings, theymutt be no Governors of the Church. And if all the Kingdom be Chnfrians, are they not all the Church ? And fo the Chrifrening of the Subjes`rs depofeth the King, and maketh the chief Prief King that Chrifreneth them. If he had faid that Kings govern Churches, but not as Churches , but as parts of theKingdom, he hadPaid falfly : For they govern them as Churches, . though not by the fame fortof Government as'the Plattors do ; as they go- vern not Hofpitals by the fame fort of Government, as the Phyficians. § i m9. In Eugenitts's Epifrle it is honeffly and trulykid, that "[ If there " had never been a painted or a forged Image, neither Faith, Hope norLove, " by which Men come to the Eternal Kingdom, wculd have perifhed. ] I am of Bellarmine's mind now, that thiswas none of the Popes Epifle, (but the honefr Emperor's, and his Clergy Councils : y He thought it too bad for a Pope, and I think it toogood for aPope. He thinks that the Pope mutt be mad, if he would have fò condemned his Predeceffòr Adrian's AErs, as this Epifrle doth ; and Idoubt he was not fo honefr as to do it. But did not Bel- larmine know bowmuch more {harp and virulent Accufations Popes have laid on- one another? § t 30. CCXLVI. So powerful was LueTQvicus Pitts's Attempts to reform the Clergy, that it drove PopeEugenius the z.d for fhame to call a Council at Rome, (not from the Antipodes, but) of 6 3 Bithops, (An. 8 z6.) who repeated force old Canons, and, amongother things, forbad fuch Feafrs and Plays as our Wakes are on anyHoly-days to beufed. § i 3 s. Valentine was next chofen Pope , (Colledis in unum Venerab. Ep f opts &Gloriofis Romanorum Proceribsrs , emnióue armploe urbis Populo in Kka` Pad.
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