258 Churclr-tVory of D ifhops and ` Sons asEnemies, when he might have pacified them by FatherlyAuthority,and the counfel of his faithful People. ' V III. That fo many Mifchiefs andCrimes committed in the Kingdom ' committed to him, by his negligence and improvidence were not enough, which `yet cannot be numbred, by which the Kingdom was evidently difgraced and ` endangered: but moreover to add to the heap of m f ries,he laftiy drew -all the ' People of his power to their common deftrullion, when be ought tohave been ` to his People the Captain of fafety and of peace, when the Divine Piety had ' decreed to have mercy of his People by an unheard of and invifible manner, ` and bypreaching in our ages. ' Fer thefe things therefore, and in all there things which are before recited, ' confe ing himfelf guilty before the Priefls, (or Bifhops ) or all the People, with ' tears, and protefting that in all thefe things he finned, he defired publick Pen- ' nave, that fo be might fatisfie the Church by repenting, which he had fcanda- ' lined by finning; and at he was afcandal by neglehting many things, fo he ` profeffedhe would be anexample by undergoing due Pennance. ` And after this Confeon he delivered to theBifhops the Paper of bis Guilts ` andConfeffonfor future memorial , and they laid it on theAltar ; and then heput off his military Girdle and laid it on theAltar, and_gripping himfelf of `. bis fecular Habit, be took the Habit of a Penitent put on him by the bands of 'Here isa.' the Bifhops, that after fogreat and fuch Pennance*,no Man after may return new fort 'to a fecular Militia. f o ci Coon m- c Tyefe things -those done, it pleafed them that every Bifhop fhouldwrite inhis of the own Papers how the matter was don, and fhould ftrengthen it by his ownfub- Bithops ' fcription, and offer it to PrinceLotharius, thusftrengthned in memory of the bands, to ' Fad. To conclude, itfeemedgood to us all that were prefent, to put the um depoica c p f King fo of all the Papers, and o fogreat a bufanefs into one Breviate, and to roborate as never ' it by the fubfriptión ofus all with our hands , as is hereafter demonftra- tobe re- ' ted.---- pored :. The Author of the Life of Ludovicas addeth, r Pulldque indutum vefte, But tt 'adhibita magna" cuflodad fob tehtum.guoddam retrudunt. tàüed.. Here you fèe theTryal ofthe godly Emperor,theArticlesexhibited-againft him in theHighCourtof Epifcopaljuftice, and the ufe of Penance, and of layingon of the Bifhops hands, in invefting him in the Garb of perpetual Penance. What wonder if the Pope alcended to fuch power, when ordina- ry Bifhops in the bell governed and inftru&ed Coantrey then in the world, obtained Euch power ; even by the nameand abufeof the POWER OF TEIE KEYS ? Saith Binnius, [ Thaganus thereforejuftly for this caufe de= claimeth againft Ebbs, Bifhop of Rhemes, the Leader, as impudicum cru- deliJlmum Epifcopum !3 And what were they that would thus follow him? § j4o CCXLIX. But the next Council was forced to do better, (for ufually the Bifhops followed the fironger fide; inTheodorus Villa they can- fed Ebbo to depofe himfelf fromhis Bilhoprick, and the ref} excufed them (elves that they did it by necef ityand fear, and were all forgiven, Binp.57 -. And yet will the Bifhops fay, that this Emperor was not humble and mer- ciful ? S 141:.
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