39 Church-Hiory of Bops and And yet Cap. 8 ° in their dire&ion for inquifition, even this Council decreed that the accufed be admitted to (peak for himfelf, and not on- 'ly, the words of the witneffes but their names alfo to be told him and `publithed, and the exceptions and replyes admitted, left by fup- n preffing their names, men be emboldned to defame, i.and by excluding `exceptions emboldned to fwear falfly.] Becaufe the fuppofedHereticks got ground by preaching, the Cap. no, decreed the lettingup of Preachers inftead of the Bithops''or to help them, becaufe they wanted ability or time. The 13. Cap. was to forbid making any new Religion*, there were fo many made in. their Church before. The n7. Cap.was againft Bithops that fate up feafting,drinking,or pra- ting till after midnight, and lie in bed the next morning and come not four times in a year to Mafs, and then talk with Lay-men at the time of worfhip. Cap. 43. forbids all Clergy men that have not temporal eftatesun- t: der them, to take any oath ofalle iance (or fidelity) to any Lay -man. The 44. is to invalidate Lay- tiler's Laws about ecclefiaftical mat- ters (as Glebes, Mortuaries, &c.) the reft I pafs by. § n96. In this Council betides the Albigenfes and Abbot ?oachim, A1- maricas a learned man was condemned; they fay hePaid that 411 Chrifl e eians were Chrifts members, and (they add, how truly is doubtfull) ftifer- edby the pews with him:thatChrift's body was no more in the facrament than in another thing: That Incenfe as offered in the Church is Idolatry: That every Chr:ftian is bound to believe that he is a member of Chrift: That if Adam had not finned there fhould have been no generating in Faradife nor difference of fexes.] We muff take thefe things on the report offuch as Sanders, with tome other that theycharge on him;for which when they had killed himwith grief; they dig'd up his corps and burnt it, as they were then burning multitudes of the living. § 197. In this Council Stephen Laughton Arch- Bithop of Canterbury was depofed for taking part with the Barons of England againft King Cohn; wholecafe was now become the Pope's when he had given him his Kingdom : in fo much that when the Arch-Bifhop confeffed and begged abfolution, his Holinefs anfwered [' By St. Peter, Brother, thou `fhalt not fo eafily get abfolution, who haft donefo many andfogreat inju- t. roes, not only to the IC. ofEngland, but to the Church of Rome.]. § 198. Let the Reader note, that x. General Councils are the Pa- pifts religion. 2. That this is one of their greateft approved General Councils. 3. That therefore by their Law and Religion, they are bound to exterminate all Proteftants, and that all Princes molt be deposed that will not execute it, and their dominion given to others that will. 4, That all Proteftants and others calledHereticks are dead men in Law andwant but
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