their Councils abridged. 377 Herefie) could not here difclaim and revoke his AEt, without éonfefling his fault, in granting that power to the Emperor, and confirming it byCovenant and Oath. He tells them that he is but a Man, and fo a Sinner, and lament- ing his fm, begs their prayers to God for pardon, and then anathematizeth all that he had written, and defireth them to 'do the like. Hereupon a crafty Bifhop ( Bruno Signinsis) laid, Let us give thanks to God, that we ourfelves have heard the Pope condemn thatPriviledge that containeth Pravity andHere- fe : And if that Priviledge contain Herefie, then he that made it was anHere- tick. 3 This put them all to their.fhifts; and yob. Cajetan angerly faid, [Deft thou call the Pope an Heretickhere, and in our hearing? The writing that our Lord the Pope made was Evil, but not Herefie. Another Bifhop Paid, [Nay it ought not to be called Evil;' For to deliver the People of God is good, by the authority of theGofjiel, which commandethas animas ponere, to lay down- our Soulsfor theBrethren : And that which the Pope did, ?vas -to deliver the People of Gad ] O holyBifhops and Councils, that take it to be no fin to lye and forfwear, if it do butdeliver the Peopleof God ! But the Pope's patience would not hold atthe charge of Herefie; but after great expeEtattons, he told them that [ That'Church had never hadHerefie : yea, the fame Church had "quelled all Herefies--AndEgo rogavi pro te, Petrelfeeureth sr. ; Asmuch as to fay, Though I confeft anHerefie before I was aware, nos» I tellyou,the fame thing u an Hen- rtcian. Herefiesn others, andnone in me. §s 33. CCCC.. An. s s 1.6. A Roman Synod to end a . ftrifcrbetween tl e two Monafteries, Cluniacenf. C & af inenf. § s 34 Platina tells us how the Pope lent the Pfans to fight. againft . the Saracens at Sea ; and whenthey were abfent,theLucenfes foughtto take their City, but the Florentines honeftlycame and repelled them ; for which the Pi- fans gave them two Porphyretice Columns. Alto that Mathildis (Maud) the Pope's great Defender now dying , en- riched the Pope; with bequeathing her Principalities toRome. And that Pin- centine, an excellent Author, faith, Thatthe war burnt with two thoufandmore in a great Fire that hapned at Florence. And beingSainted, divers places fay, they have her Body. Bernard was the glory of thisAge. Platina tells us an-ofa bloody War and Sedition in Rome,upon the Pope's denying aBoy of ten years old, to fucceed his Father as PréfeEt of the City ; the Pope being forced to remove : That the Emperor came with an. Army again to Rome, where a-Bithop crowned him again, the Pope being inApulia, whoafter, returned and dyed. .. C c e
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