their Councils abridged. :269 out by reafon of the divifions of the Empire and Kingdom into fo many hands of; the French Line,thát beingin continual fufpicion ofeach other,they needed the Pope's help. Bin. p. 7 9 o. He ordereth Pennance ( inflead of ju11 death ). for one Cu- waits that had murdered three of his ownSons, viz. That for three years he pray at theChurch-door, and that for feven years he abflain from Wine threedays ina week, and for three years to go without flioes , allowing him to eat Milk and Cheefe, but not Flefh, and to enjoy his Pofieflion, but not have the Sacrament for feven years. § 24. His Decretals begin, That the Emperor's f udgments andLaws are 'below the Canons, and cannot difJhlve them or prejudice them. Tit. 4. i. He faith, ` [All Patriarchal Dignity, all - Metropolitical Prima- ' cy, all Bifhops Chairs,and thedignity of Churches ofwhat Order foever were inflituted by theChurch' of Rome : But it's he only->d'id found it, and erect it on the Rock of Faith now beginning, who to St. Peter,the Key-bearer cf eter- nal life, did commit the Rights both of the Terrene and the Cele al Em- ' pire, Reader, Had not the abufe of Humane Patriarchal Power, and of Excom municationi.got.up very high,when thisbold Popemade this Decree?What! All Churches in the-Worldmadeonly by Rome,? Was not Jerufalem, An tioch, and many another made before ir? Did 'Chrift fay any thingof Rome ? Did nototherApoftles build Churches by the fame Apoftolick Commidion as Peter had? Is not the Church built on the foundationof Prophets and A-' poftles , Chrift oeing the Head-corner tone ? Did not others build the Church of Rome before Peter did it ? Did. not Peter build other Churches before Rome? Where and when didChrift give Peterthe Imperial Power of Earth and Heaven? Did he not decide-the Controverfie who Should be the chief or greateft,with a prohibition of all ImperialPower, (With you itpall not be- fo § aS.But the next Dectee cafteth Rome as low,as this over- railed it.' If ay, one by,Money, or HumaneFavor, or by Popular or Military'Tumult, be inthrrc- ' ned 'in the Apoftolick Seats,7isithout theConcordant and Canonical - Election of the Cardinals of that Church, and then of the following Religious Clerks, let ' him not be accounted a Pope, or Apofielical, but Apoftatscal.] By which Roo; hath had fo few Popes indeed, and fe. many Apoftates, that it bath no (hew of an uninterruptedSucceflìon to boaft of. §z6. Tit. 4. e. 7. He claimeth Authority to abfolve Men from Oaths, and all Obligations madeby the violence and cánftraint.. of badMen, . and fo abfolveth -the Archbifhop of Triers. (A wicked Decree for. Perjury :) : ( As if in materia licita, a Man that fweareth..for Fear, were not bound?. And as, if . Man had not Free-will, when he is under Fear ?) . § 2.7. C. 6. e 8. He decreeth that none can judge the Pope,nor.retra b his Judgments, nor judge of them, ( contrary to many General Councils. ) He curfeth fromChritt all that contemn the Pope'sOpinions,Mándates, Ill to di6s, San&ions, Decrees, &c._ e.. 9..
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