C7;nrch-tZoy of r$ïo,ps and § 42, NOW cometh in the Foundation of the newChurch ofRome, Fletdcz,rand called Greçory 7th. An, 1073. a man of Great wir, and for ought I find. in the molt. probable Rftory not guiltyof thegrófs immora- lities, or tenfuality of many ofhis predeceffors; but its like blinded with the opinion which the-Papifts Fifth- monarchy men have received (and Carfp.1nelld de regne Dei opened and pleaded for)viz.that ChrifisKingdom on earth confiftetii in the Saints judging the world, that is, the Pope and Prelates ruling the Kings and Kingdoms of the earth, he did with grcateft animofity Pet himfelf to execute his opinions. And withal, the faftions ofRcme and tyranny oftheir petty Princes and Whores and de- bauched Citizens, having long made the Papacy the fcorn of the world and the lamentation of all fober- Chriftians, conftrained the better part to beg help from the Emperors againft debauched monftrous Popes and their upholders: And by this means fometimes the choice fell into the Emf erors hands, and fòmetimes when they were far off the City-pre- vailing-part rebelled, and chofe without them, or pulled down them that the Emperors Pet up And then the Emperors carne and pulled down the Anti-Popes, and chaftifed the City faftion; and thus between o the Italian and the German powers the City was a field of war, and the richer by bribes; and the ftronger by the (word, how monftrous villanies foever were Pet up. It was no wonder then if Hildebrand firft by Pope Nicholas 2. and Alexander and then by himfelfdid refolve to run a defperate hazard, when he had two filch great works at once to do, as firft to recover the debauched and fhattered fhamed Papacy from this confufion, and then tofubdae all ICinga and Kingdom" within their reach to fuch a Prieft-King as was then tinder fo :great difgrace. And tibi dabo'claves mutt do all this, § 43. Hildebrand however had the wit to fettle himfelf at firft by feeking the Emperor's confe_nt: And being fettled he got Agnes the Emperor's mother and Guardian moftly on his fide. He then began to claim prefentation.ï and inveffitrires and to rake the power over the Bifh- ops out of tile Emperor's hands, and to threaten him as Simoniacal, and for communicating with the excommunicate. The Emperor after Tome treaty fubmitred, and was reconciled to the Pope; but the Pope laid he did not amend. The Pope calls a Council at Rome, where he excom- municated Sirnoniacks, openly Paying that he would excommunicate the Emperor unlefs he amended. Guibert Arch-Bifhöp ofRavenna being there accufeth the Pope for Each threats againft the Emperor, and got Gin- cins the Prefeét.'s Son to apprehend him and imprifon him. The People. rife up in arms and deliver the Pope, and pull down Cincins's hoofe to the ground, and cutting off their nofes,banifh his family out of the City. Circixì got to the Emperor.Guibert. Arch- Bithop of Ravenna, Theobald Arch- Bithop ofMilan, and molt ofall the other Bithops on that fide the , ,Apes confpire againft the Pope. (And yet they fay that all the world were his fubjefts.) He calls another Synod of his own Bithops (for Sy- nods
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