their Councils abridged. 3 41 Clergy and people; but if he would followhis advife, he fhould in a ber- King may ter way attain his end : ,fo Hildebrand went with him and perfwaded or- him to put off his purple, and to go in a common habit, and confefs dam a P P g Bithop: that he is not their Bifhop till they choofe him, and that he takerh not Queftion the feat as given by the Emperor but by them; whereby he won the whether Romans hearts, and they readily chofe him. And he being called Leo he may the th, after fo many monfters, went for a very excellent Pope. But remove 9 Y F anordáin- yet he commanded an army himfelf againft the Normans, and proved cd BiThop no good or happy Captain, his Army being wholly routed, and himfelf from one taken Prifoner : whom the Normans in reverence releafed and returned Church to fafe. Pet. Damianus and others lament his Souldiery as his great fin, but tetpeo' Baron.and Bin. excufe him,and fay,all the world now alloweth it: You fee pie only what arguments ferve at Rome: where it was but lately that the firft ar- accepting tide that a Roman Council before Otho Mag. brought in againft Pope freoy- ?ohn was that he went fometimes in Arms : And to be formerly a Bifhop fent? was hetetofore an incapacityby the Canons: Yet Rome covereth her in- novations by pretending antiquity,and calling others Novatores. § 114. But how militant a defender of the Roman grandure this Leo was, may be feen in his Epifiles in Bin. p.1096. be. In the fin i long one to the Patriarch ofConftantinople and another Gree(Bifhop,he reproveth them for bold damningof the Church ofRome, and tells them that they were members of Antichrift,and forerunners of him that is King over all the Children of pride; and faith, who can tell how many Antichrifts had have been already?Hetells them howmany heretickBifhops theyhave had at Conft. and ofabove ninety herefies in theEaft; and how by force they raged againft the 7oannites (theNonconformifts that followed St. Chry- fofteme;)what a heretick their Bifhop Eatychius was,that faid,the body at refurreftion will be impalpable,and more fubtil than the wind and air (He believed Paul that Paid it fhould be a fpritual body (though not a Spirit.) And how hisBooks were burned.He reprehendeth their title ofOecumenr- Remei cal Patriarch;and faith that no RomanBifhop to that day had ever accepted ber that. or ufed that Title (*) Yet he reciteth the forged grant of Coñftantine, faying, that as far as Kings are above Judges, fo all the world muft-take thePope for their Head; and that he gave the Palace and all Rome, be. to Silvefter, and faid- it was unmeet that they fhould be fubjeEt to any earthly Prince that were-by God made Governors ofHeaven. At large he thus pleadeth for the Roman Kingdom of Priefis, chiding them that had put down all the Latine Churches and monafteries in the Eaft.] (yet Baron. and Bin. tell you . all the Church on earth obeyed the Pope.) In his 4th. Epiftle he laments that in Africa there was "a0 s. Bifh- "ops at a Council, now there were fcarce five in all; and he fheweth "that all Bithops were ofone order, but differenced as the Cities were "for primacie, by the Civil Laws or the .Fathers reverence. That "where the Pagans Arch- Flamins were , there were inftituted Arch "Bifhops to be over the Provinces; where a Metropolis was, Metro- " poll-. t33 iD
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