zg$ ..__.,._. C°hurch-fory of B ifhops and (g)Its P'ty ` dergo their remedying judgment (g ). And being glad of fo wholfom an hadbet - Admonition (h ), ¡trait we entreated his beloved Son,Lotharius A.ugufkus, terjudges `to beffieedilyprefent, that without delay, withhis Nobles he might come, that (h)Its like `there might be amutual reconciliation between them according to Cbriftian he lookt ' Doctrine, that f there were anyblemifhes or difords in their heartu,apure and for better humble begging of Pardon ( i) might expiate them, and tbereiípon before all ( ii )fOf 'a the multitude, he might receive thejudgment of the Priefibood asPenitents do, trayte- ` which loonafter was done. rows Son ' Therefore the Lord Ludovicus coming into the Church ofHoly Mary,God's and 'Sub- Mother, where reft the Bodies of Saints, that is, of Medard, aConfeffor of .1(e Was ` ChriFt and Bifhop, andof Sebaflian a moil. excellent Martyr(thePriefts,Dea- !) this keep- cons, and no fmall multitude of the Clerksftanding by, and his Son the fore- ino the ` laid Lotharius being prefnt withhis Nobles , and the generality f all the nn ie-ln ` People,even as many as the Churchcould hold)and being proftrateon the earth menr, and ` upon Hair-cloth ( k ) before the HolyAltar, he confeffed before all,that he ton Honour- ' unworthily ufed the Min:ry committed to him, and in it many'wayes of- the `fended God, and fcandalized theChurch of, ChriFt, anchmany ways troubled wickedO 'thePeople byhis negligence : And therefore for the niblick and Ecclefiaftick Son , and Expiation offo great Guilts, hePaid he would defire Penance, that God being wicked f merciful by their Min ry and Help, he might proeerou, fly deferve (or obtain) Prelates ! ` Abfolutionof fogreat Crimes, God havinggi rien them the power of Binding ` and Loofing; whom alto the Bithops, as hiiritual Phyficians , didwholfomly admoni(h, telling him that true remifon óf Sin followeth pure and fsmple ` Confefon ; that he jhould openly confefs his Errors, in which heprofefed that s be moFt offendedGod, left he fhould hide any thing within,or do any thing de- ' ce tfully before God, as it isknown to all that be did heretofore in the Palace at Compeigne, when he was by another HolyAffembly reproved before all the f Church : And that he come not to God now, as he did then, by dfmbling ' and craft, with a double heart, and provoke him to anger, rather than to for- (ï) O in `give his fin (1) ; for it is written, The dJmblers and crafty provoke the fishing ` wrath of God. And after this Admonition beprofeJd that he had chiefly Traytors! 'finned in all thole things, whereuponhe had been familiarly reproved by the (m) T he `foretold Priefts, by word or writings; that being by due rebuke reprovedofthe wrote y things theygave him a writing (m) of, containing the fum of his Guilts, of him his ' which they had ffieciallyreproved him ; whichhe had in his hands, viz. Leífon, & ' I. As in the fame Paper is fullier contained, incurring the guilt of Sacri- co fined ' ledge and Murder, in that he kept not, accordingto bis promife, thefatherly for him. ` Admonition and terrible Conteftationmade to him with DivineInvocation be- 'fore the Holy Altar in pretence of the Priefts,and thegreateFt multitudeof the ' People ; in that he had done violence-to his Brethren and Kindred, and had (n) A `permitted his Nephew to be killed (n ), whom he might have delivered ; t'raytor ` and that being unmindful of his Vow, he after commanded the Sign of Hoy in open `Religion to be madefor the revenge of his own indignation. Rebellion ' I I. That being the Author of Scandal, and;Troubler of the Peace, and Vic- ' later
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