3 44 Church-Hiory of Ï limps and "politans or Arch.Bifhops were placed ; and Bithops in letter Cities " where had been Flaml is and Covnts.But in lf ica they were diverfifyed " only by the times of their ordination; the Bifhop of Carthage being " the chief.] In his Epiitie S. he hath a good confeffion of faith,. where among other things he well faith, [ "That God preeleftinated only things "good, but foreknew both good andevil; and that Grace fop reventeth and " followeth man, that yet mans free will is not to be denied: that the Soul " is not part of God, bur createdof nothing. He anathematizeth every He- " retie, and every one that receiveth or venerateth any Scriptures but what are received by the Catholick Church, d°c. In the ód .agaiw he chides the Patriarchs ofConfiantinople for the title Vniverfal; laying that Peter himfelfwas never called the Oniverfal Apo- file, nor did any of his Succefl'ors take fo prodigious a title. For he is no friend to the bridegroom that wouldbeloved in hisftead, but a Bawd of Antichrifr:, &c. His 8th.Epiftle is to the Greek Emperor to flatter him,tohelp him with Henry againft the Normans; Inwhich (to prove the Romans fucceíliion) o i "he faith [The holy Church and Apoftolick Seat hath been too long ufur- ct ped by Mercenaries that were no Paftors, that fought their own, and not the things ofChrift.] "ThisPope and Michael Patriarch of Conffantinople,were fo unreconci- "lable that they continued mutual condemnations. Michaelis condem- ned'"with his Greeks. z. For rebaptizing the Papifts. z. For Paying that they had no true Sacrifice or Baptifm. 3. For holding Priefts marriage, for rejecting the Filioque,&c. Bin. p. 1116. §. .I 14. CCCXXIX. An. 5049. ARomaa Council was fain upon pen- nance to pardon Simoniacal Bithops andPriefts ,becaufe the Cry was, that " elfe almoft all the Churches would be deftitute, and the Church fer- " vice omitted to the fubverfion of theChriftian Religion, and thedef " peration ofall the faithful. (Wherewas the holy Church ofRome now,, and its Succeffion, if the Canons for nullifying Simoniacal ordinations hold good?) IIi. CCCXXX. ThePope refolved to go to France, and Prefide in a Council,which he did,at Rheines: But many Nobles and Bithops told the King that it was an ufurpation and a Novelty and would enflave his Kingdom : The King forbad him, yet thePope came whether the King would or not ; And theKing went away about his military affairs, and force Bithops with him, and others ftayed. The Arch-Bifhop of Rhemes, and others were accufed of heinous Crimes : The Bifhop ofLangres was charged with Centring by Simoniacal oc herefies, felling orders, bearing Armes, Murder, Adultery, Tyranny to " his Clergy,and Sodomy : Many witneffes teftified all this: One Clergy- " man witueffed,that while he was yet a Lay -man this Bifhop violently " tookhis Wife from him,and when he had committed adultery with her, he
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