3 4 8 Chrsrch-.iory of Bilhops and tempted reformation, forbidding (alas ! how oft) Bifhops to fell orders, and other alts of Simony, and Priefts Wing ir wives, and the Adul- tery, Inceft and perjury Of Bifhops andPriefts ; bidding them that are fuck, repent, and forbidding communion with men called hereticks. § 15. CCCXLII. Though Adultery, Inceft, Perjury and Simony of Bifhops was fo hardly reftrained, it Teems they would pay for it by fu- o. perulition; for a Council at Compoftella decreed (faith Baron. ad an. sog6.) that i. All Bifhops and Priefts thould fay Mars every day. 2: That at faits and Litanies (which were perambulations in penitence) they fhould be cloathed -in fackclorh. § 16. Stephen the 9th. alias loth. is.next made Pope: In his time faith Platina the Church ofMilan was reconciled to Rome, that had withdrawn itfelf from it two hundred years. Was all the world then fubjeCt to the Pope when his Italian neighbours were not ? § 57. This Pope lived after his entrance but 6 or 7 months, and they fay made them promife him to choofe hone in hisplace till Hilde- brand came home to counfel them : (A great Subdeacon that Romemuff be ruled by.) But in the mean time the new Emperor being but five or fix years old,the great men of Italy turned to the old game 'and brought in one by ftrength (Mincius) whom they called Benedict the loth, ali- as 9th. a Bifhop; he reigned '9 months, 2o-dayes. But when Hildebrand came home he got him cast our. This was the twenty firft fchifm in the Papacie. § 18. Hildebrand's crafty counfel was to fend to the Emperor to >2n. To59. content to GerardBifhop ofFlorence whom they chofe in Italy and call- ed Nicholas the 2d. Left Benedilt Ihould get the Emperor on his fide; and fo Nicholas made Benedill renounce and banithed him : But how fhall we be lure which was the true Pope? § 59. This Pope's firft epiftle is to the Arch-Bithop ofRhemnes to ad-, vire him to admonitli the King ofFrance for refilling the Pope. § 2o. CCCXLIII. ThePope's Council at Sratrivan depofed Benedilt. § zt: CCCXLIV. An. 105'9. A Council of 153 Bifhops at Rome, they fay, made Berengariws recant, but not repent; but as foon as he came home he wrote againfr them and their Doctrine. § 22. In this Council,faith Platina, the Pope madea decree very profi- table to the Churchof Rome.Bin. faith thefe were the words (tranflated) ["p. 1.666. Firfi,Godbeing the Infpeltor it it decreed that thevleílien of the "Roman Bi(hop be in the power of theCardinal Bops: fo that if any one be `finthroned in the Apoftolic(feat, without the foregoing concordant and Ca- "nonical eleEionof them, and after the confent of thefo/lowing religious Or- "der; Clerks andLaity, (*) he be not accounted Apoftolical but Apofta- thers fay, tical.] the Empe Here it is much to be noted, s. That this is a new foundation ofthe fonta fo Papacy (by 'Hildebrand's Council) without which it was falling to utter w confufon. Row then cloth the Roman feCt cry down Innovation and 4 boaft
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