and their Councils abridfed- 317 cufable only by necefíity,. and not,to be imitated but in cafes of neccfiì- ty: His Ordained Clergy were Reftored, and Re-ordinations and Re baptizations, forbidden asunlawful. s. 17. CCCVII. AnotherSynod he called at Ravenna for the fame ufe, whenhe fled thither from Rome; of 74 Bifhops. Baronius faith, He was another ,yeremias lent of God, topluck upand pull down what Pope- Stephen had done. Platina faith[I think this came to pafs becaufe Popeswere departed from St. Peters fiefs ; and chiefly, becaufe the ChriflianCommon- wealth had idle flàthful Princes that wouldhave Peters fhip thus tolled, leftIke Puler if he look about him, fhonldcolt them out asevil Pilots. _ Arnulphus was given to pleafare, and Charles theJimple or rather foolifh,of France, was-little bet- ter ; -andJo the Hungarians deftroyed and_killed in Germany and France, and the Affricans in Calabria, and had little refiflance; ._Blood andNife- ry being the common Lot. He addeth, [That this Pope John dying in the -2d. Tear and 15th. day of his Reign, left nothing worthyof Memory behindhim, but that-He revived fome..Sedittons that before were-almoft extinct. And it is a fad queftion, .that.Herveus Bifhopof Eisernes put to him (Bin. p. 1048) "What to do with chafe that are Baptized and Rebapti- ae zed, and yet . after Baptifm live .as the Heathens, kill Chriftians, yea -the a "Priefls, facrifice to Idols, cat things offered to them? The Pope durff - " not ufe Difciptine on thefe, becaufe they were Novices, left he áf. " fright them. from the Church'to Heathenifme again ; but left them to. "the Bifhops Difcretion and Experience,, to do as he faw belt. a8- This Pope had a Corrival, which was the 15. Schifine : Ser-. - gins that had been made "Pope with_Formafots, and was put out and Ba- nifhed, did now get in again,; but yohn had the ftronger part, and calf him out, and Baniflted him once again: Onuphr. Chron. p. z8. But had he been but thong enough,- the fuccefbon .had. come down from him, as right. .4. 19. Beneditl the 4. camenext: '" Nothing faith Platina, was done " in his time that is much to be praifed; becaufe both Princes, and Clergy were grown Debauched; bad Princes making Popes by- Ty- ranny : Now the Line of Charles the Great, loft the Empire, Ludovi cus the Son of Àrnulphus being flain by Berengariess; and fo they loft both Italy, Germany, (and-after France) by their own, and the Clergies. Wickednefs. zo. Leo. 5. Came next," Anno 907. Who 'thrúft him in, I find not; but when.he had Reigned but 40. -days, his familiar friend C'hri- fiopher had lift to be Pope, and call-himout, and laid him in Fetters;.... where it's faid he dyed of Grief: where Plating well noteth,. that [`The faying is certainly true, -that .Dignities (or places of preferment) "receive more honour from the, Men, than. the. .Men do from the Dig.nir- "ties (or places.) ] 4. 2.r e. Chriftopher thus got in byfudden invalioñ, -kept it longer:than:w `0 S f ., d,sm,:.>
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