164 Cburçh-fory of 13ijhops artd and he intruded again, and ordained many Priefts. , Him/harms fucceeding in his life-time, rejeð all thole that he thus ordained. ACouncil is called to judge whether their Ordinationwas valid or null. The Council decreed, that s ' ¿Whatever in Ecclefiaftical Ordinations the faid Ebbo had done after his anrn tion, according to the Traditions of theApoftolickSeat, at is read in the 'Deeds of the Popes, except Sacred Baptifm, which is perfetted in the name of the Trinity, jhall be all void andnull, and thole ordained by him in whatever ` part of the world they frail be Fugitives or wander, becaufe they cannot flie ' from God's judgment, let them be held deprived of all Ecclefiaftical Degrees ` by the judgment of the Holy Ghoft. ] And yet there Men had Chewed Let- ters from the King and divers Bifhops, for their reception as Presbyters , but the Synod faid they werecounterfeit. Another Cafe was this, one Halduinus had been made Deacon byEbbo,and Confecrated Presbyter andAbbot byLupus Bifhop of Catalonia. ThePref- byter was ordainedout of his own Jurifdi&ion to the . Church of Rhemes This being queftioned, an Archdeacon (hewed the King'sLetters, command- ing the Ordination of Halduinus. Lupus ordained him, in obedience to the King, without examining, ( there being then noBithop at Rhemes.) Where- upon the Synoddecreed, according to the Canons, (fay they) ' That they that are made Presbyters without examination byignorance,or by dmulationofthe ' Ordainers, when they are known, (hall be depojed; becaufe the CatbolickChurch defendeth ( but) that which is irreprehenfable. And it was {hewed in Con- cil. Sardic. c. 9. and other Councils and Decrees, 'That thefaid Bifhop touch-- ' ed nothing of his Ordination, but that he that leaped to the Priefthoodwithout *,Becaufe the degree of Deacon*, he ought to retire (refilire) to due degradation. 116 was § 6. Here you fee the Nullification even of the Ordinations of an ejected made Archbi(hop, yea, and of a lawful Bithop, when hemakes a Presbyter of one Deacon thatwas by fuch an eje&ed Bifhop made Deacon,and_when he ordaineth un- GGtib . Y worthily without due examination. And if this hold , what interruptions have there been in the Succeilion of Bifhops,efpecially inthe Roman Seat § 7. AnaftifiusaCardinal, Presbyter of Rome, betook himfelf to the Em- peror,folliciting him to depofe Pope Leo the 4th,and to placehim in his (lead. The Pope hearing it; calleth him home to his charge, from whence he had beenabfent five years but he would not return,nor appear,whereforeCCLX thePope called a Council at Rome, which depofed him. § 8. CCLXL` Ignatius thePatriarch of Conftantinople, called aCouncil to depofe Gregory Bifhopof Syracufa; They defo ed Pope Leo's confirmation : He delaying it, dyeth. Gregory in the mean time prevaileth againít Igna- tius, who is caft out, and Photons pUt in, and a grievous Schifm begun. § 9. CCLXII. An. 855. under Lotharius Remigius Lugdun.and 12 other Bilbops, are called a Council at Valence, who made 2.3 Canons or Decrees, with great Judgment and Piety, and (hewed how much more venerable a Council of a few wife Bithops are, than greater. Councils, where the molt are weak.. Their-fell work rigaing thole that theycalled thePredeftinatia- ,,;=,there Cap.a they detcrmrno,b id s s sa/vs Deoom ideaperirevelle quiet boni
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