their Councils abridged. 26 i miry caFt out, andgood Methodius put in.] I recite the words, to thew you what various Chara&ers the interef' of Images gave to men, and what God- liners andUngodlinefs, Good men and Bad men, -are in the fenfe of many Hifrorians. § r 5 is The Pope dying, 7ohan. Diaconús feizeth on the place by force ; but Sergius is chofen againft him, and prevaileth: In whole beginning Lc- tharius fent his SonLudovicus with an Army to Rome*,Siebert faith to be Think- the Confirmer of the Pope, and claim that right ; others fay,to be crowned. ing they To Lotharius they (ware obedience, but not to his Son. Some great debate would Anáftafus tells us that a great companyof Bithopshad againft the Pope and 'Need re- hisParty, but he tells us not what it was, but that the Pope was toohard for hit,'; The them, and glad when the French were gone. Pope fob- § 15z. It's before Paid, that after the Bifhop's depofinghim,Lotharius was mined reftored, the three Brothers agreeing, that Ludovicus fhould have Germany, all fharo and part of France, and Charles have France, and Lotharius Narbon and Italy was delt- as Roman Emperor. red of a CCLIV.TheArchbifhopric ofRhemes hadbeen ten yearswithout aBifhhop Subjet`t, upon Ebbo's removal or flight , and two Presbyters fucceilively Fulke and till Luds- Hoths had been the Governors of it, (fome willqueftion the validityof their gonues?as a&s.) And a Council at Bellovacum makes Hincmarus Bithop. § 153. Under Carolus Calvus the Church-Lands were much alienated, ef- pecially Abbots Lands, to Nobles and other Lay-men. Whereupon CCLV. aCouncil at Melda (Meaulx) did byAnfgifus and Bernardas Levita draw - up a Book of fevenParts, lamenting the fins of Chriftians, and the Sacriledge of the Laity , and offered it to the King, who refufed it, the Nobles being:: againft it : For which ( fay the bold Expofitors of God's Providences) the. Normans by Invafion troubled the Land. § 154. Leo the4thbecame Pope; they durft not confecrate him without the Emperor's authority, Anaftaf. inBin. p.618. This Pope wrought great Miracles, fay they. 1. He conquered aBafilisk than killed menby his looks, (as St. George conquered the Dragon.) 2. By the Ctof he !lope a. fire in. the. City : But his good works contain a Volumn in Anaflttfius, viz. the many Churches that he adorned, enriched, repaired; the filver Veffels and Orna- ments that he gave, thePofts and Pillars, and Altars that he beautified,and the glory that he added to the RomanCity and Churches, &c. yea,when..:the Sa- racens came and fpoiled St. Peter's Church in the Suburbs of Rome, he caufed the PaidSuburbs to be walled and fortified, as a new City; calling it Lecnina from his name : And he made two or three Prayers of fix or feven lines long, to delire God's prote&ion of it, by the interceflionof St. Peter. And he wri- - tech a notableHomily, in whichhe comprizeth much of the Canons,teaching themall the Arts, Gefnires, and Cerefnonies of canting the Mars; and pre- cifely ordereth, that everrPrieft.do learn his Lefton -; and -that ifany of them be illiterate, ( that cannot read) he (hall be fulpended till he amend, (learn to read ;) fo learned was the Clergy in that Age. § 155. the way,the oft mention here of ringing the Mafs,doth remem-
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