z 68. Church=FIßofy of BJhops and {hew that he had now fhaken off the Imperial Power ; and therefore char- à eth his Letters as full of Blafphemy,Injury, Madnefs, &c. partly for being fo fawcy as to bid the Pope, [ Send fume to him.] which he faith was far from the godlyEmperors. Partly for blaming the deedsof the Prelates, when he faith, Their words muff be regarded, and their authority, and not their deeds.' Partly for calling.the Latine Tongue barbarous and Scythian, in comparifon of the Greek', which he faith is to reproach God that made it. Partly for faying, that the Council that depofed Ignatius, and fet up Photius, was of the fame number of Bifhops as the firft Council of Nice; where this high Pope's anfvrer is worth the notice of our Papifts , Bin. p.689. [` The fmall ` number, hurteth not, where Pietyaboundeth : Nor doth multitude profit, where Impiety reigneth. Tea, by how much the more numerous is the Congregation of -themalignant, by fo much the fironger are.they to do mifcbief: Nor mull men `glory in numbers, when they fight not againFb the Rulers of the darknefs of `-this world, and fjüritual wickednef.- -Glory not therefore in multitude,becaufe ` it is not the multitude but the caufe, thatjuftifietb or damnetb:--Fear not little `Flocks,&c. ] This Uterine was then fitteft for the Pope in his Minority : But theLetter is a Book pleading for the Roman Grandure, and $riving to bring theEmperor with others under his power. 4 22. In his Anfwer and Laws to the Bulgarians,he difliketh their Severi- ties againft one that had pretended to be a Prieft, when hewas not, and had baptized many, concluding that he had,faved many, and that theywere not tobe re-baptized, Bin. p. 772. No,not though he were no Chriftian that` baptized them, as after Conful. Cap. 104. p. 782. To the Cafe: Who are Patriarchs? he faith properly they only that have fucceeded Apoftles, which were only three, Rome, Alexandria and Antioch, but improperly onlyConflantinople and 7erufalem. (But why then are not Rphefus, Corinth, Philippi, &c. Patriarchates ?) And why had the reft of the Apoftles noSuccefiors ? Had they no Churches ? 4 23. This Pope having Weftern fecurity , threatned Excommunication to the Emperor'ofpthe Eaft, unlefs he would depofePhotius,. and xefrore Igna- tius ; and .threatned Lotharius, for the caufe of his reje&ed Wife , and the- Marriage of another, as aforefaid ; and fwàggered againft . Hincmarùs Rhe- menfs, for his depofing Rothaldis a Bifhop, and forced him to yield, and con- demned his Synod at Metz, and would have proved that Pope Benedit`i had not confirmed it. He and other Popes did make the Contentions of Bithops as well as of Princes a great 'means of their rifing,takingthe part ofhim that appealed toRome as injured, ( and very oft of the truly injured.) Bywhich means they had one Party fell for them,and all injured perfons were ready. to ic, to them for help. HeExcommunicated the Bifhops of Colees and Triers. The poorBifhops that would fain be on, the ftronger fide, began now tobe at a lofs, to know whether the Emperor or the Pope was the ftrongef. They followedd.the Emperor, and refilled the Pope awhile. - The King and Hincmarus forbad_ Rtt1?sldus going, to Rome, andimprifoned him: But thePope wearied them out, 4
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