384 C1nexeh:Hifory of Bilhops and brewTongue, ( nor,the Pope's WefternCouncils the Greek) have no more exercifèd themfelves inCouncils to judge of Scripture, Copies, and Tranflations. And Ihave thought in what words and manner they would have profecuted fuch debates ; lure falfifying Scripture is of as . dangerous confequence as there School prefumptions. Some will think it is well that the Councils for above I o0o years had fo few that underflood the original language, or elfe they would have fo tolland torn, and fenfed andnonfenfed the Scripture, that they wouldhave made it quite another thing. C. 17I. CCCCXIX. Yet we have not done withHerehes. A Council at Rheines, called by the banithed Pope, tryed a mad man, an illiterate Ruftick, called Eiern,one unworthy to be called an Heretick, faith OttoFrifing,who laid he was the Son of God, Vic.. whom thtÿ.fentto Prifon, wherehe dyed. . In the fame Council Gib. Porretane,Bifhopof Poiîtiers,is again called where their Subtilties were difputed over again; and Bernard Abbot Clareval. being his chief Adverfary, upon J'orretane's exception to fome of his words, faying, Scribantur, went and drew up fome Articles of Faith_, feeming, contrary to Porretanes, andgot many Bifhops to fubfcribe them. The Roman Cardinals took this heinoufly,and came all together to the Pope, and toldhim, That it avas they that of a private Man made him Pope, and that he muff know that it was they that were theCardnnes, on which the Axis of the whole Church did surn, and that hemuff not now be his own, but theirs, and not preferprivateand new Friends before his,old common ones. , And that his Abbot Bernard with the Gallicane Bifhops, badaudacioufy, prefumed to lift up their Necks againft the primacy.and top of the Roman Seat, which only dotbPhut andno manopens,and opens and nomanhits ; which only may difufs matters of Faith : And even when abfent, may not receiveprejudice of this honour from any. But , ,behold tbefe.French-men, contemning ourfaces, (or prefnce) haveprefumed to write their Belief without confulting tts, as if they wouldpal; a definitive Sentence. en the matters that have been handled before as : which had it been done at An- tioch or Alexandriabad been void--How then dur.Ft theft eefiarp in our prefence -- - We will therefore that,you prefenty. rife up again.Ft this temerarious Novity, and delaynot.topunifh their Contumacy.] And fo theyhad like tohave run into a Schifm : But the Pope and Bernard fpake them fair, and Bernard laid,. Thy wrote not asDeterminers, but to giveaccount of their own Faith, when : provo- ked; and fo pacified the Cardinals. But this Tumult hindered the deciding of the Cafe Bzst, faith Otto, whether Bernard was decived by humane infir- mity, or Porxetane efeaped by biding_any thing by bisgreat learning, I muff not determine. §,x7a.. CCCCXX. Another Council An. I Iy o., the banned Pope held at Trevers, where Bernard told him of the Revelations of aWomanAbbefs called.Hsldegardis The Pope Pent fometoher.; the returns him .a writing of her
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