, 411 Chttreb-Hifiory of 93ifoops 'Reader of Theology in th Schools, a Preacher to the people, a Lover of cha- lity, perfecutor of Simonift : Thefi words laid the Lord JEgidius, a Spa- 'MP Cardinal and others, whom their own Confiiences did touch. They coun- 'filled the Pope to wink at all this, and pafs it by with diffimulation, ¡ ft tu- truths fhould be raifed about it: efpecially for this reafon, tbat, 17 IS 'KNOWN THAT A DEPARTVRE WILLSOMETIME C OME.] fo far Mat. Paris. § 197. 'Yet neither this Bifhop nor the Hiftorian flattered gPrinces; but both of them fadly lament the oppreflion and other fins of King Hoary: And the Bifhop commanded his Presbyters to denounce excom- munication againft all that fhould break the Magna Charta, the Charters heretofore granted, forefeeing, faith Mat. Paris, what the King would do. And he fharply reprehended the Fryar Minors, that would not tell Great then of their fin, when they had nothing to lofe (Cantabit Vacuus, &c.) having chofen poverty that they might be freer from hindering tempta- tions. § 198. When he lay on his death bed at Bugden in Huntington/hire, he told job. ./Egiditis his learned friend, that he took them for manifeft.He- ` reticks, that did not boldly deted and reprove the fins of great men, and there-upon reprehended and lamented- the fins of Prelatec., but e- fpeciafly the Roman ; reciting their putting unworthy- and bad men in.. to the Paftoral office, for, kindred or friendfhip fake. The thirdday be- 'fore his death, he called to him many of his Clergie, and lamenting ` the lofs of fouls by Papal avarice, groaning he laid , Chrifl came into ` the world to win fouls, Is not he then defirvedly to be called Antichrill', who cfeareth not to deflroy fouls? God made all the World in fix dayes ; but to 'repairman he laboured above thirty years : And is not a dellroyer,of fouls r-S then judged an enemy of God and Antichrift] &c. Next he goeth on, to thew how finfully the Pope by his non obftante overthrew even the rights that his Predeceffors had granted, vainlypre- tending that they bind nothing becaufe par in parent non habet potellatem, and what evils to the Churches he had done, and addeth fary a Let- ' ter of the Popes, in which I found infirted, that they that make their or that undertake the Cr ifado, and to help the holy land, frail receive jilt s-o, rar. 'ft much indulgence as they give money,&c. And fo goeth on, naminghis dosing. impofing men that cannot preach, or Itrangers of other languages as Patton on the people, and his covetous and greedy devouring all the wealth he could'get, concluding - Ejits avaritie toms non fufficit orbis, Ejits luxurig Meretrix non fufficit And that he drew Kings in for his own ends, making- them partakers of the prey. Prophecying [that the Church will not be freed from Egyp- tian fervitude, but by the. mouth of the bloodySword: Theft things arefmal bat
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