their Councils abridged. 2 g 3 The laft Chapter requireth thole that are far from the Church , to meet for Prayer in other places, as being acceptable toGod.. In the 8th Capitul. ( Bin.p.569. ) the Bifhops fay, [ Beati--Petri vicem indigni gerimus. J Sothat thePope is not Peter's onely Succeffor; others re- prefènt him, if this Council did not miftake. § r 37, CCXLVIII. We come now to a Council which lheweth you, that the goodCanons made by theEmperor for Church-Reformation, were' Er from reforming the generality of the Bifhops. It is the Council at Com- pendiam,which too compendioufly depofed the godly Emperor,(of whom the world was not worthy. ) Calumniators pretended that one Bernharda Courtier lay with fudith the Emperor's fecond Wife : TheSonsof his firft Wife hating her; Pepyin,whom his Father had made Kingof Italy , on this pretence Trayteroufly raifèth Arms againft his Father. Lotharius,the eldeft Son, toomuch confentmg,per- fuaded his Father to let a meetingwithout Arms, at Neomagos , prevent a War. At that meeting the Nobles, Parentis Imperium legitimèprorogabant, faith Binnius, p.575, and Pepin took up Arms again. The Father conquer- eth his Son, and taketh him Prifoner, and might luftly have taken away his life, but he was ftol'n out of Prifon in the night. Ludovicus depriveth him of hisKingdomof Italy, and divideth it between his twoSonsby the fecond Wife, Charles and Rodolphus. Hereupon Lotharius the eldeft rebelling,knew not how to ',conquer hisgodly and profperous Father but by the Bithops: Them he draweth intohis Confpiracy, that as Binnius himfelf faith, " [ tit " quernfilii armác imperio deponere non pojnt , herum faltern nundinariorum Antifliturn faffragio Eh'judicio, honore ac potefiate imperiali privaretur : foe- edit ce impide cantos impiiffimus.] The laft means of Treafon was a Coun- cil of the bate mercenary Bifhops; a wicked Attempt that ferved theewick- ed Men, and did the Feat. Ebb* the Archbifhop of Rhemes , (of a bale original) and enow more fuch Prelates were not wanting. The Emperor had before voluntarily lamentedhisputting out theeyes of hisKinfman Ber- nard a Rebel, (of which he dyed) as too cruel, ( when now no Prince ferupleth Hanging, or Beheadingopen Rebels.) TheChurchhad fatisfadtion by his voluntary Penance, for that which fewMen will think a Fault. And what do thele Biftiops now,but becometheir Sovereigns 7udges,yea, and that when he was abjent, and condemn him unheard, for this former Fault. Note the Cafe. . t. Theycondemn theirKing to be depofed, who wereSubjeéls. s: Yea,Clergy-men, that had leaft to dowith State Affairs. 3. Yea, and that for a Fault, which perhaps was but Juftice , and no Fault. q.. Or if it were a Fault, was before jùdged and remitted. And did godly Lenses cherifhCh-riftian Bilhop,fe(ualonfly,:for this Isle, fo bafely and tray- terouflyto depofe him? Vie. Yea,.,
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