314 Church-Kiory of Bifhops Reformation : Many of the Canons are to fecure andadvance the Clergy. The ninth decideth adoubt,ifan Earl (or civil Ruler) Command the People 03. to meet at one place (on Civilaccounts) and the Bifhopcommand them tomeet at another on the fame day, none 'hall obey the Magiftrate (or Earls) but he and all his Company (hall obey the Bifhop and come to him. Cap, To. No Bifhop fhall be Depofed but by twelve Bifhops, no Presby- oa ter but by fix Bifhops, no Deacon but by three, Cap. 21. InControver of lies,Laymen mutt: fwear,but Clergy-men muff. notbe put to fwear,Cap.zz. There is allowed Tryal by fire, Per ignemCandentiferro Caute examinetur. 4, 6. _CCC1V. A Council at Nantesmade more difciplinaryCanons. 4. 7. Who was next Pope is not agreed Plating and Onuphrius fay, that Boniface was rightly Chofen, and Reigned but twenty,fix days, faith Platina, orfifteen faith Onuphrius; others:(faith Ptatsn ):fay twelve years Baronius ( and Binius) faith, that was no Pope; and that he did but invade the Pope- dome, and was homo nefarius, a wick dman, twice before thisDegraded : FirflfrombisDeaconllïip, and next from his Preibyterate, Damned ina Romane Synodunder John theNinth : He addeth, that (both ofthem) Bonifaceand Stephengot the place byForce, Fear and Tyranny,and fo it was but one Intruder, that thrafi out another intruder : (But how then is the Succeflion fecund.' Why, it's added) Tee Stephen is numbred with the Popesby the common Sentence(or Opinion) becaufe to avoid the danger of Schifine,though hewas homo fcelefliflimus, a moll wickedman; yet all the Cler- ,ems gynpprovedbim, and the 'whole Catholik Church, tookhimfor ChrihsVicar d- Peters Succefor, (How prove you that, why, becaufe [Fmike. Bifhop of Rhemesowned him! ] ANoble proof that all the ChriflianWorld did fo ! 4. 8. Say Barronius, and Binius, he began his Pope-dome with that Sacriledg, as to take the Corps of Formofus out ofhis Grave, and claath- ing him in his Pontifical Robes, (befit him ina Chair, and faith Platina, there judgedhim as noPope, becaufe he had been firft a Bifhop; which indeed, bythe old Canons, nullified his calling; For Formofus, was the6rfl Pope that had been 'before a Bifhop, as is faid, ütilefs the Emporour Bafal tru- ly charged Macrinus with the fame) : Having Expofttïiated with the dead man, *why he being a Bifhop would take the Pope-dome, he cut off his a,d threefour Fingers withwhich hehadAnointed, and call them into the River ,c g. Tyber, and commanded, that, all thathe had Ordainedfhould be OrdaineL again : (and fo Conform to him.) And they wonder with what faceof ReafonOnuphritosrejefieth all thisas,. a Fable,when the Antient Monuments, Synodal Afìs,and Hif}orians teflify it. ` Doyouwonder at this ? why it is becaufe he was not willing it fhould be believed : a Reatan that is not ftrange to your felves. 4. 4. CCCV. Pope Stephencalled a Council. in which his ufage ofPope Formofus was approved, Bin. exBaron, p. 1047. fo ready vbere the Bifhops A4>ro g97 . to follow the f(rongefl fide, in fuch things as the Papilla mention with ab ff horrence And(fay they)thisportenttumattended the Synód,rhatthe Lateran. Church, the chief Seat of the Pope, by the impelfe ofan evill Angelfell down quite
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