37o. Church-Hj?pry of Bfhps and and might be received by others, when they were Excommunicate. It was there- tCr fore decreed, 1That whoever was Excommunicate by his Bithop, that Bifhopnot being himfelf Excommunicate, or deprived of his Office, though it were snappy done,fhculd by no means be received to Communion (by any other) unlefa ab- folved in theEcclefiaftical manner.] And fo God mutt be difobëyed,that com- mandeth the Faithful to worfhip him in Sacramental Communion, whenever any proud, malicious or drunken Prelatewill forbid him : Andmutt fo live and die, unlefs his Mailers will repent of their injuries. When as it is ufual for one injury to engage a Man to more, or to continue it, for the juftification . of the ñrft. § 89. Another Decree of this HereticatingCouncil was, What days to keep the Spring acrd Summer Faits en; and that none eat Chafe or Eggs inLent. This is the Roman holinefs, and way to Heaven. Many Archbifhops and feveral Cardinals were here Excommunicate alfo,for being for the Emperor againft the Pope. §9o. CCCLXXI. But the Wars of Councils continuing, a Council was called by the Emperor at Mentz, where the depot tion of Gregory , and the fubftitution of Clement (whole Legates were prefent) was confirmed, and the Condemners again condemned. And fo we have done with the Life, Letters and Councils of Hildebrand. § 9 t: Pope Gregory dying, Clement alone wasPope oneyear, and then the Italians chofe Defaderiaas an Abbot, called Viötor the 3d. This was the _2.34 Schifài, or twoPopes at once. Vigor lived but a year and three months, and zq.. days. Hiftorians tell us of Fàfnines, and dreadfulProdigies in thole days. In that little time he raifed an Arnáy which beat theSaracens in Africk. § 9z. CCCLXXII. ACouncil at Capua chofe this Vigor, An. t o87. and when he was brought toRome, they found Pope Clement in poßëfìion , and keeping it by Arms : but when they had fought, Vigor's Soldiers proved Vilkors, andhis Title to be beft. § 93. CCCLXXIII. Voller had a Council atBenevent, where he damned PopeClement and his Bithops, An. 1087. The grand Controverfie of thofe times of the Pope againft theEmperor andother Princes was,about Prefenta- tions to Bithopricks, or Inveftitures, which the Pope laid, belonged to no Lay- man: Vigor's Council again judged fuch Prefentations or Collation of Bitho- pricks to be Sacriledge, and fuch Simoniacs that ufed them : And here it's worth the noting that they decree, ( Bin. p. 1193. ) That Penance and Com- munion may be rt eivedfrom none but a Catholick: And if no Catholick Prieft be there, it is righter to perfaft without vfbleCommunion, and to communicate invifibly with the Lord, than by taking it from a Heretick to be feparatedfrom God. For there is noCommunion of Chr f andBeliai ; nor of a Believer with an Infidel: But every Heretic, is an Infidel: And a Simoniac becaufe an Here- tick, is an Infidel: For' .though Catholìcks becaufe ofthe Hereticks being over them, cannot have vifible andcorpiral Communion, yet while inmind they are joined to Chr f, they invfbly receive his Communion.] Let.
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