their Councils abridged. 173 reftored how he fled ; and when Ludovicas was dead how Lotharim with the bafe temporizing Bithops reftored him, and after he had been condemned and refigned,his place, returned to the exercife of it and ordained divers ; and how upon theprevailing of Charles againft Lotha- rims he was cart out again : and how after Lotharists got the Pope to appoint the hearing ofall again when he was condemned, and howafter this he was made a Bifhop in Germany, and Rhemes was ten years ruled by two Presbyrers, and how the Pope Pafchal chofe this Traytor to preach to the Heathens near him, and howHincmarus was chofen, &c. as aforefaid. Such trouble did aVfisrper put the Churches to. § 5o.Platina faith that fome fay that after the death ofPope Nicolas* Sa ar theplace was vdid eight years, leven months and nine dayes : But to his in others fay that it was void but leven dayes: fo uncertain is the Papal Bin. p. Hiftory offuccefl'ion. The next that we find inthroned is Hadrian zd. 876. Ad § s t. Michael at Confiantinople having been long ruled much by lBafl4ò Bardas (who was for Photius) at Taft giving up himfelfto drunkénnefs fez;te and other'fins, by the perfwafionof Bali/iv,' he killed Bardas, and made Michaele Baflius C efar : And after a while his vice gave Bafilium the opportunity intérfeans to kill the Emperor when he was drunk, See Dion. Teravius Hift. lieel t. chap. 12. Yet this Bafiliuts wathed his hands and made Many Pro- teftations that he had no hand in his blood. This made for the Popes advantage: Women and Rebels and Traytors and difcordant Princes did much in railing him. This Regicide Emperor , as a fecond Phocas finds it ufeful to quiet his party by a change countenanced by the Bifhop of Rome: And fo he Pets himfelf againft Photius and lets up Ignatius a- gain ; and fearching Photius's fervants, finds a book written of the Alts of the late great.Council at Conflantinople, which was for him and a- gainft Ignatiuu,and a defence ofthat Council againft she Bithop ofRome, in which he dealt feverely with the Pope. This Book the newEm- peror fends to the Pope , and there it is read , ftampt upon, ftab'd with a knife, andopenly burnt (and a miracle is Paid to be at the brlrn- ing of it , fome drops of rain that fell, not quenching the fire_, but in- creafing it.) But their calling Photius a knave and burning his books,, and condemning the council that was for him , will hardly keep the readers ofhis yet-preferved learned writings from fuf e&ing that the Popes caulewas not unqueftionable,or at leaft,that thePope was not ta- ken for the univerfal Vice-Chrift whenPhotiuu and his council did fo little regard him. No wonder then if the Alts ofa great council when they were againft the Pope are called [Nefand.ffimi Conciliahuli prophanata Volumina, geeibuc fanulifmum Papam Nicolaum fufiurrd fauce latraverat.] Yet our new Papifts would make men believe that none but a few He- reticks refufed fubjeftion to the Pope before Luther. Were there Councils Hereticks? 5z. Here the Emperor Ra/iliuu was put ìo a hard {trait about his Bithops: He wrote to the Pope (vid.. Bin. p. 8zs. 826.) that almott Nn all
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