25' q. Cbttirch-Hiflory of Ir3y79ops and -5. Yea, and to join in the horrid Rebellion of Unnatural Sons, to accom- plifh their designs. 6. And to tempt Princes to hate Religion, when in Nomine Domini, the pretence of Religion flail do greater wickedness byPrelates, than the Rebels Arms was able to perform. Saith the Author of the Life of Ludovicas Pius, [ This judgment finite few gain - Payed, more consented to it : the greatejt part, as it ofetbso, be in fach ( ) O cafes ( a ), confinted by word, for fear of offending their Leaders (b). They wicked judged him, abfent and unheard, neithercon e in nor conic` before the Bodies of f St. MedardCenfeffr and St. Martyr, to la down his Arms Bishops . y (c> (b.AVhorn and forced h',-n to lay them before the Altar; and douching him in a black Tould garment, under a fIricl' Guard, they thrall him into Prifn. By this testimony, Pare faith Binnius, it:se certainlyproved that the whole bufinefe was .done by force , moreth n and fear, and coloured with the ; fa f pjgment of Religion. Thus was the God and befl of Princes, after all his fervices for the Prelates, and kindnefs to his Sons, their deposed, and basely ufedby both, againll Nature and Religion. () Is tl s His firs{ Reflauration, when he. had been before deposed, was by the Ger- the ufe (:).f mans : How he was'reflored the fecond time, I find not certainly; fóme Reliques? would give Pope Gregory the honour of it. It is likeliest that the interest which _iis goodness had got in the People, with the odióufitefs of hisSonsand Bifhops Ahfs, did it: But fully restored, after all this, he was. And being fomewhat backward to forgive Lotharius, he filled France with newWars,till the Emperor for Peace did pardon all. But Ebbo, Archbifhop of Rhemes, andAgobard, Bifhopof Lyons, were depofed, as Leaders of the Treafon; and Ebbs banished, and restored byLótharius when his Father dyed ; yea, and sent as a fit Man to convert the Normans by Pope Parches million , being made Bifhop of Hildesheim in Saxony, by Ludovic King of Germany, fee Petavius Hifï, 1. 8. c. 8. Shortly after, An. 84o. the Emperor (follicited yet to more Wars byhis owrz Sons, about dividing theKingdoms) dyed, a direful Eclipse of the Sun foregoing his death, the day before Afcenfion-day. § 538. That you may fee the bate Hypocrifie of these Trayterous Bi- {tops, I will recite their words in the Council that condemned the best of 833 Emperors; but his Imprifonment they leave out. § t 39. The Bifhops condemnationof the Emperor Ludovicas Pins, An. 833. after à Prefaceof the Duty of, Bishops without Favoror Fear to judge Sinners, and'the need of putting their Sentence in writing, to avoid the cen- *Here is lureof bad Men, theyfay--- a High Court of ' We hold it neceffary to notife to all the Sons of the Church, both qrefent Prelatical 'andfuture, how we Bishops, fit over the Empire * of our Lord and moil again glorious Emperor Lotharius, An. 833. the rAi year of the aidPrince in good Em- `dlober, didgenerally meet at thePalace aCompendium, (Compeigne ) peror. ' and
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