the more for this Accusation he seemed an Hypocrite indeed but whether an Heretick I know not The Scot Heretick is accused as denying the Church Canons and the meaning of some Fathers despising the Synods Laws saying that he may still be a Bishop for so he was though he had two Sons in Adultery saith Boniface perhaps in Marriage and as he saith holding that a Man may marry his Brothers Widow and that Christ at his Descent delivered all Souls out of Hell This was a foul Error indeed if truly charged These were charged by Boniface and the Roman Synod to be forerunners of Antichrist and how like are Aldebert's Pretensions to many Roman Saints A Prayer also of Aldeberts was read in which he prayed to Angels under several strange names Bishops and Presbyters had Votes in this Council and subscribed the Hypocrites condemnation Bin. p. 218. But there is no certainty that he named more than three Angels § 23. Stephen the 2d was chosen Pope by ALL THE PEOPLE after Zachary and dyed four days after suddenly § 24. Stephen the 3d was chosen by all the People saith Anastasius Aistulphus King of the Longobards threatned Rome took their Gifts and demanded their Subjection The Pope after Gregory the 2d's Rebellion was glad to send to the Emperor to crave an Army to save Rome and Italy when he could get no help from Constant. he sent to Pepin King of France One that he had made King by Rebellion was obliged to help him and by an Army forced Aistulphus to covenant to restore Ravenna and many other Italian Cities not to the Emperor whose Agent claimed his right and was denied by Pepin but to the Pope to reward him and get the pardon of his sins Aistulphus broke his Covenants Pepin with another Army forceth him to deliver them and returneth Aistulphus dyeth Desiderius a Captain by Usurpation invadeth the Kingdom Radchis that had been King before and went into a Monastery and the Nobles of the Longobards resist the Rebel He sendeth to the Pope offering him all that he could desire more Cities to help him The Pope maketh his own bargain with him as he did with Pepin and Charles Martell before and by the help of the French setleth the Rebel Desiderius in the Kingdom Pepin maketh a Deed of Gift of all the foresaid Cities to the Church of Rome Was this Constantine's Gift He gave away another Mans the Emperor's Dominions and with Desiderius's additions now the Pope is become a Prince § 24. CCXXVIII We come now to a great General Council of 338 Bishops at Constantinople An. 754. under Constantine Copronymus against the worshiping of Images The Adversaries of it will not have it called the 7th General Council because divers Patriarchs were absent and it decreed say they against the Truth They not only condemned the worshiping of Images and Germanus Constantinus Georgius Cyprius Jo. Damascenus and other Worshipers of them as Idolaters but destroyed the Reliques of Martyrs and exacted an Oath of Men by the Cross and the holy Eucharist that they would never adore Images but execrate them as Idols nor ever pray to the holy Apostles Martyrs and blessed Virgin saith Baronius and Binnius p. 235. But the 15th and 17th definitions of this Council recited in the 2d Nicene Council shew that they were not so free from praying to the Virgin Mary and Saints as we could wish they had For they decree we must crave her intercessions and theirs but they forbad praying to their Images § 25. The Acts of this Council not pleasing the Adversaries are not delivered fully to us but it fell out that their Decrees are repeated word by word in the 2d Nicene Council and so preserved § 26. There is one Doctrinal definition of this Council owned also by their Adversaries the 2d Concil Nicen. which by the way I will take notice of about the glorified Body of Christ and consequently ours after the Resurrection that it is a Body but not Flesh Bin. p. 378. defin 7. Siquis non confessus fuerit Dominum nostrum Iesum Christum post assumptionem animatae rationalis intellectualis Carnis simul sedere cum Deo Patre atque ita quoque rursus venturum cum Paterna Majestate judicaturum vivos mortuos non amplius quidem Carnem neque incorporeum tamen ut videatur ab iis à quibus compunctus est maneat Deus extra crassitudinem carnis Anathema To which saith the Nicene Council by Epiphanius Huc usque recte sentiunt Patrum traditionibus convenientia dicunt c. Two sorts I would have take notice of this 1. The Papists who say that the Bread is turned into Christ's very Flesh when he hath no very Flesh in Heaven And therefore the meaning must be of the Sacramental Sign that it is the Representation of that real Flesh of Christ which was sacrificed on the Cross. 2. Some prejudiced Protestants that think he that saith Our Bodies and Christs in Heaven will not be Flesh and Blood formally and properly so called but spiritual glorious Bodies doth say some dangerous new assertion such gross thoughts have gross heads of the heavenly state To these I say 1. You contradict the express words of God's Spirit 1 Cor. 15. Flesh and Blood cannot enter c. That it is meant of Formal Flesh and Blood and not Metaphorical Sin is plain in the Context see Dr. Hammond on the Text. 2. Give but a true definition of Flesh and Blood and it will convince you of itself 3. You see here that you maintain an Opinion which these two even adverse General Councils anathematized § 27. By this Council we may see how little General Councils signifie with the Papists either as to Infallibility Authority or preservation of Tradition longer than they please the Pope As to their Objection that call it Pseudo-septimum that the Pope was not there I answer 1. No more was he by himself or Legate at the first of Constant. called the 2d General Council as Binnius professeth 2. Is not the Church the Church if the Pope be not there Then he may choose whether ever there shall be more General Councils as indeed he doth § 28. CCXXIX An. 756. King Pepin called a Council in France declaring that things were so far out of order that he could attempt but a partial Reformation leaving the rest till better times The first Canon was that every City have a Bishop of old 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signified every such Town as our Corporations and Market-Towns are And by all the old Canons and Customs except some odd ones every such Town of Christians was to have a Bishop and in Phrygia Arabia c. the Villages had Bishops saith Socrates c. And in many places the Villages had Chorepiscopos which Petavius Annot. in Epiphan Arian fully proveth were true Bishops And yet then the most of the People in most Countries were without the Church
be true that thou sayest that the face of God is like ours then curse the Works of Origen which deny it If thou deny this be sure thou shalt receive at our hands the punishment due to the impious and open enemies of God O brave disputing Were these mortified Monks Theophilus told them he would do what they would for he hated the Books of Origen But that which ripened the mischief was that the Religious Houses of Egypt having four brothers excellent men for their overseers Theophilus was restless till he got them away to him one of them Dioscorus he made a Bishop others living with him perceived that he was set upon heaping and hoarding money and that all his labour tended to gathering Dr. Hanmer translating this puts in the Margin This Bishop hath more fellows in the World And noting how Theophilus to revenge himself persecuted his own Opinions saith This is a sin against the Holy Ghost would dwell with him no longer but returned to their Wilderness Theophilus prone to anger and revenge endeavoured by all means to work them mischief And the way he took was to accuse them to the Monks for saying to him that God had not a body nor humane shape And he himself was of the same Opinion yet to be revenged of his Enemies he stuck not to oppugn it and sent to the Monks not to obey Dioscorus or his Brethren for they held that God had no body whereas Scripture saith that he hath eyes ears hands and feet as men have which with Origen they deny By this treachery he set them all together by the ears one side calling the other Origenists and the other them Anthropomorphites so it turned to bickering among the Monks yea to a deadly battel And Theophilus went with Armed men and helped the Anthropomorphites So you see if Socrates say true how wickedly this Sainted Patriarch lived and how he came so much engaged against the Origenists whose errours doubtless were worthy blame but many good persons who honoured Origen for his great worth and owned not his errours were called Origenists because they honoured him And that which was erroncous in him was consistent with far greater Learning Piety and Honesty than Socrates Isidore Pelus and others thought there was in Theophilus Either credible Socrates and others were gross Lyars or this Patriarch and Saint was a downright knave or acted like one § 40. Now we are upon it let us prosecute Chrysostome's History â—urther He was a studious holy Monk of a House near Antioch After Nectarius death he was chosen Bishop for his meer piety and worth He was a man of great piety and honesty and an excellent tongue and as good a life but bred in a Cell and not to Courtship knew not how to slatter Courtiers and Court-Prelates He was naturally sharp and cholerick and his conscience told him that a Bishop must not be a dawber nor flatter the greatest wicked men For Bishops in that Age were the Preachers not having a thousand Congregations to preach to He saw even the Clergy addicted to their appetites and he kept a Table for them but eating with great temperance he always eat alone He rebuked the Luxury of the Court and particularly of the Empress who conceived a deadly hatred against him And the Custome of the Court was for the Women much to influence both Emperour and Courtiers and then what Bishop soever was too precise for them and bold with their sins to get a pack of the Worldly Clergy presently to meet together and depose him For Synods of Bishops not the Pope had then the power They would not be seen in it themselves but a Patriarch of Alexandria should call a Synod and do it presently Chrysostome was a man of no Courtship to take off their edges but the worse Courtiers Bishops and Priests were the worse he spake of them And all the honest plain people believed and loved him but the rich and great Prelates abhorred him His own Clergy hated him because he would reform them Those that would not amend he Excommunicated Which they could not bear so that one of his Deacons Serapion openly said to him O Bishop thou shalt never be able to rule all these as thou wouldst unless thou make them all tast of one whip Every one was his Enemy who was his own and was engaged by guilt against his Discipline and Doctrine The Guilty hated him His Hearers loved him Swift-Writers took his Sermons which tell us what he was to this day And it was honesty and policy in Innocent Bishop of Rome to own him who had worth to add to the reputation of his defendants Among other of his accusations one was that Eutropius an Eunuch Chamberlain to the Emperour procured a Law against Delinquents taking the Church for a Sanctuary And shortly after being to be beheaded for a crime against the Emperour he took the Church for a Sanctuary himself And Chrysostome from the Pulpit Preached a Sermon against him while he lay prostrate at the Altar Also he resisted Gainas the Arian who turned Traytor and was destroyed Another cause of Chrysostome's disturbance was that one Severianus Bishop of Gabale in Syria came into Constantinople and Preached for Money and drew away the hearts of the People while Chrysostome was about choosing a Bishop for Ephesus Serapion a turbulent Deacon quarrelled with the Syrian Bishop and would not reverence him The Bishop said If Serapion die a Christian Chirst was not Incarnate Serapion tells Chrysostome the last words without the first Chrysostome forbids Severianus the City The Empress taketh his part and importuneth Chrysostome to be reconciled to Severianus But the Core remained Socrat. l. 6. c. 10. § 41. Socrat. c. 11. Shortly after Epiphanius the Collector of Heresies came from Cyprus to Constantinople and there irregularly in Chrysostomes Diocess played the Bishop ordained a Deacon and called together the Bishops that were accidentally in the City and required them to Condemn the Books of Origen which some did and some refused saith Socrates cap. 12. Obscure men odd Fellows such as have no Pith or Substance in them to the end they may become famous go about most commonly to purchase to themselves Glory and Renown by dispraising such men as far excel them in rare and singular Virtues Chrysostome bore patiently Epiphanius's fault and invited him to take a Lodging at his House He answered him I will neither Lodg with thee nor Pray with thee unless thou banish Dioscorus and his Brethren out of the City and subscribe with thy own Hand the Condemnation of the Works of Origen Chrysostome answered that such things are not to be done without deliberation and good advice Epiphanius in Chrysostome's Church at the Sacrament stands forth and Condemns Origen and Excommunicateth Dioscorus a Bishop and reproveth Chrysostome as taking their part Chrysostome sent word by Serapion to Epiphanius that he did violate the Canons 1. In making Ministers in his Diocess 2. In
and his Son Sergius were the Captains that had wrought this great deliverance to the Church And now they plead with King Desiderius for St. Peter's Rights as still zealous for the Pope The King is angry with them and jealous of their power and seeketh to destroy them and particularly to set their own Pope against them They get the Citizens to stand by them and the King cometh with an Army The Pope seeing which was like to be the stronger side in great wisdom went out to the King and after some days conference with him sendeth to Christopher to render himself to the King The Citizens hearing this forsook Christopher and Sergius Gratiosus seeing they were deserted by the People through the Pope went out first to the King and Pope and Sergius next and Christopher last The Pope was so kind to them that made him Pope that he made them Monks and put them in Sanctuary in St. Peter's Church to save their lives But they had Adonibezek's justice and were soon drag'd out thence and Christopher's eyes put out of which he dyed But Sergius was awhile a Monk and then thrust in the Laterane Cellar Thus went the matters of the Universal Monarch at Rome § 36. A little before the Pope's death Sergius was fetcht blind out of the Cellar and kill'd the next Pope searcht out the Authors and found them to be Paulus Cubicularius and the last Pope's Brother and other great Men and he prosecuted some of them to Banishment but the Archbishop of Ravenna caused Paul to be killed § 37. It was Adrian a Deacon that was then chosen Pope Son to the chief Man in Rome ablest to effect it Upon these stirs Desiderius desired friendship with the Pope but he demanding the Cities which Pepin had given the Church some of which Desiderius still kept and doing the foresaid justice on the Friends of Desiderius he came with an Army and killed many and took many Cities The Pope urgeth the restitution of all his Cities indeed the Emperor's given him by Pepin he still denieth the Pope gets Charles of France to come with an Army for fear of whom the Longobards flie The Dutchy of Spoletum and other Cities yield themselves to the Pope and as a token of subjection receive tonsure Charles besiegeth Desiderius in Papia and forceth his Brother Carloman's Wife and Children that fled to the Longobards to yield themselves to him while the Siege continued Charles went to Rome and was gloriously entertained by the Pope and renewed to him Pepin's gift of all the Exarchate of Ravenna and many Dukedoms and Cities which were none of his own to give and now the Pope is a Prince indeed And Charles returning to the Siege conquereth Papia taketh King Desiderius and winneth all the Longobards Kingdom And thus Strength gave Right according to the Atheists Opinion now stirring that Right is nothing but a power to get and keep Pepin and Charles make themselves Kings and the Pope a Prince that while they share the Emperor's Dominions between them they might be a strength to one another And Desiderius being himself but an Usurper helped by the Pope into the Throne no wonder if when interest changed the same hand take him down How Charles his Brother Caroloman dyed and why his Wife and Sons fled from Charles to the Longobards and what became of them is not well known § 38. Pope Adrian the 1st thus made a greater Prince than any before him did greater works than they had done and ob nimium amorem Sancti Petri ex inspiratione Divina built many great and stately Buildings made all places about his Palace Baths c. fit for splendid pomp and pleasure and all this from meer self-denial and holiness Many Churches also he repalred and adorned and did many other such good works § 39. This great Adrian was before but a Deacon I have oft marvelled to read that Deacons were so ordinarily then made Popes and sometimes Lay-men when yet the old Canons required an orderly rising through the several degrees It was no wonder that then a Deacon at Rome was a far higher preferment than a Bishop For a Deacon and a Priest might be chosen Pope but a Bishop could not For of old when Diocesses and Parishes were all one the Canons decreed that no Bishop should remove to another Church except being Consecrated by others he never consented nor had possession so that every Bishop must live and dye in the place where he was first Ordained so that Rome Const. Alex. Antioch c. and all the great Seats chose either Deacons Priests or Monks to be their Patriarchs and Bishops No wonder then if as Nazianzen saith Orat. 5. it was the custom to have almost as many Clergy-men in every Church as People in regard of the present Honour and the future hopes of Preferment Indeed he carried it that had the greatest Friends which was as commonly the Deacon as the Priest or Archdeacon By which we may conjecture whether the worthiest Men were made Popes For if they were the worthiest why were they by former Popes never made higher before than Deacons Did not the Popes know the worthiest men And if a breach of the Canons in Elections nullifie the regular Succession by this it is evident that the Roman Seat hath no such Succession § 40. By the way the Reader must note that in all the Writings of the Popish Clergy concerning these matters there are certain terms of Art or Interest which must be understood as followeth viz. 1. Sanctissimus Papa the most Holy Pope signifieth any prosperous Bishop of Rome how wicked soever in his life 2. Rex Pientissimus the most Pious King signifieth a King that took part with the Pope and advanced his Opinions and Interest 3. Imperator Sceleratissimus Haereticus Nefandus c. a most wicked Emperor or Patriarch or any other and abominable Heretick signifieth one that was against the Pope his Interest or Opinion Homo mendaeissimus a Lyar is one that saith what the Papists would not have to be true If you understand them otherwise you are deceived ordinarily § 41. About the death of Paulus Cubicularius and others note that it had long been the way of the Church-Canons to contradict God's great Law for humane safety He that sheddeth Man's blood by Man shall his blood be shed and on pretence of being more merciful than God to entice Murderers Adulterers and all wicked Thieves and Criminals to make up the Church of Christ by decreeing that instead of being Hanged or Beheaded if they would but be Baptized they should but be kept for a time from the Sacrament or do Pennance and what Villain would not then be a Christian § 42. Here ariseth a great Controversie with Sigibert a Monk-Historian and Gratian himself which Baronius and Binnius take up viz. the first say That Charles being at Rome a Council there with Pope Adrian gave him the power of chusing the
of Jofred Earl of Campany they brake into the Laterane House and took him and first imprison him and then send him Banished into Campania But John Prince of Campania killed Jofred and his only Son and delivered Pope John the Eleventh month after his Banishment And the Emperour Otho again bringeth an Army to Rome with speed and casts the Governour the Consuls and the Dearchoues into Fetters The Consuls he sendeth into Germany banished The Dearchoues he Hanged Peter the Praefect of the City some write saith Platina that he delivered to the Pope to have his flesh torn off his Beard and Head being Shorn and he hanged a while at the head of the Constantinian-Horse he was set on an Asse naked with his face backward his hands tyed under the taile and so whipt through the Streets till he was almost Dead and then Banished into Germany The Corps of Jofred and his Son he caused to be taken up and to be vilely cast away into divers filthy places Thus did the blind Zeal of a good Emperour Revenge and defend Usurping Popes § 66. A Council at Revenna of small importance and one at Rome to confirm Glassenbury-Monastery I pass by and all the English Councils which Spelman hath given us by themselves But it is worth the noting that the famous Dunstan that banished Priests Marriage out of England was the Favourite of these two Popes Iohn the 12. and 13th even much countenanced by the monstrous Pope that lay with two Sisters of his own and made his House as a common Whore-house if a Council under solemn Appeals to God and Execrations said true § 67. The next Pope according to Platina is Benedict though Onuphrius and Binius put Donus next saith Plat. Cintius a potent Citizen of Rome took him and laid him in Iayle and there strangled him He wondred that neither Otho nor any other ever Revenged it But Otho was now near Death and could not have leasure to bring an Army out of Germany to Rome every time that wicked Citizens and Popes fâ—ll out Did the Universal Church own this man also But saith Plat. Benedicts Merits were such as Cintius his reward importeth But yet it was not well done of Cintius to meddle with the Pope were he never so bad But alas saith he how the World is changed For in our Age Popes lay Citizens faulty or suspected in the same Prison and then Macerate them § 68. Donus 2. was Pope but three months In his short time the Bulgarians had almost taken Constant. saith Platina And Anno 972. a Council was held at Ingelheim in Germany to compose Church matters § 69. The next Pope saith Plat. was Boniface the 7th who ill got the Popedome and so lost it Onuphrius and Bin. say that Cintius by his command strangled his Predecessors and that he Succeeded him Saith Plat. in the beginning of his Magistracy for a Magistracy it thus was by the Conspiracy of the good Citizens being forced to leave the City taking away all the pretious things out of S. Peters Church he fled to Constantinople where he stayed till selling all that he had sacrilegiously gotten he got a great mass of Money with which he returned to corrupt the Citizens by Bribes But good men resisted him especially John a Cardinal-Deacon whom Boniface catcht and put out his Eyes And the Sedition increasing more and more either for fear or remorse he next made away or kill'd himself He was Pope 7 months and 5 days saith Platinus But Onuphrius saith one year one month and 12 days But other Popes came in between before he died and he got in again § 69. Baronius and Binius say that Boniface is not to be numbred with the Popes If so 1. Why not many score also 2. Where then is their uninterrupted Succession And where was their Church then § 70. Binius maketh Benedict 6. next after Donus and saith He was imprisoned and kill'd by Boniface who Usurped the place § 71. An. 973. A Council at Mutina was to reconcile two Brethren § 72. Benedict 7. An. 975. drove away Boniface and was Pope himself And so here were again two Popes Now Otho 2. had a great Overthrow by the Greeks in Calabria and flying by Sea was taken Prisoner by Pyrats and Redeemed by the Sicilians dyed at Rome And Otho the 3. was Chosen in his place by the Germanes Writers agree not of the time of Benedicts Reign In his time they feign that at a Council at Winchester in the midst of their Disputes the Image of our Lord spake out for the Monks against the secular Clergy and so decided all the Controversies And a Synod was at Rome about the Bishop of Magdeburg accused § 73. CCCXIX. Anno 975. At a Council at Constantinople Basil the Partiarch is Accused as Criminal and Antonius Studita put in his place § 74. Pope Iohn 14. alias 15. is next at Rome Anno 984. Binius maketh him succeed Boniface that had killed Pope Benedict and was fled to Constantinople and saith that when Boniface knew that Otho the Emperour was dead he returned to Rome and seized on the Papacy again and finding John in it did not only turn him out but cast him in Bonds in the Tower of St. Angelo which was kept by men of his own faction and with great Tyranny kept him there four months and as a violent and sacrilegious Robber at last Murdered him by Famine And lest any hope should be left to the Emperours Party he exposed the Corps of the dead Pope for all the Citizens to behold before the doores of the Prison And the People seeing the bare body of the Pope consumed by Hunger buried him with Sorrow In the mean time the Invader of the Seat and the cruel Murderer of two Popes the odious Paricide and turbulent thief Boniface the Anti-Pope Oh Horrible by Tyranny Invaded St. Peters Chair But after four months by Gods Revenge he suddenly dyed he killed himself said Plat. When he was dead even the factious persons on whom he had trusted Wounded his dead Carkass and Drag'd it through the City This Bin. out of Baron and he exautiquis Vatican-Codicibus And must a Governour of all the World be thus Chosen But Platina saith that some say that Ferrucius Bonifaces Father a great man murdered Iohn and others say he was cast out for Impotency and Tyranny and others say by malevolent Seditious Men. So confused saith he are the Histories of those times § 75. Next comes Iohn 15. alias 16 Binius saith that for fear of the like usage that had befallen his Predecessors he left Rome dwelt in Tuscany one Cresconius a great man having got the Castle of St. Angelo till the Pope sending to Otho 3. afrighted the Romans and made them intreat him to return But Platina saith That He burned against the Clergy with a wonderfull Hatred and therefore was deservedly hated by the Clergy especially because he bestowed all things Divine and Humane on
contention he made an Oath to ask the Pope forgiveness if the Pope would come into Germany The Pope on his way fearing that the Emperor coming toward him with an Army would apprehend him turned back again and betook him to a strong City of his Patroness one Mathildis a woman The Emperor with his Army travelled to him and came to the Gates of the City and in a great and sharp winter frost putting off his Royal Ornaments came barefoot to confess his fault and ask forgiveness of the Pope The Pope would not suffer him to come in He patiently stayed three daies in the Suburbs continually begging pardon and the Citizens moved with Compassion At last the woman Mathildis and Adelai a Savoy Earl and the Abbot of Cluny became petitioners for him and prevailed for mercy with the Pope and he was absolved and reconciled to the Church having sworn a peace and promised Obedience I give you the words of Platina all along And now whether Hildebrand or Henry was the better man in common morals I that knew them not must refer you to the Historians of that age of whom some extol the Pope and depreciate the Emperor and others honour the Emperor and deeply accuse the Pope But if an Emperor that travelled so far inâ—o another Country and put off his ornaments and with his Army waited three daies patiently in the Suburbs of a womans City barefoot in a great frost begging mercy and pardon of a Priest before he could be let in and after this sware obedience to him I say If this Prince did not yet sufficiently submit but deserve to be turned out of his Empire though at the cost of blood and desolation to the innocent Countries it will be hard to know when the Obedience and Submission of Kings is enough to satisfie an ambitious Prelate But the Popes Historians say that the Emperor brake his Covenant It is a hard thing for a King that promiseth Subjection and Obedience to a Pope to be sure to keep his word unless he foreknew what would be commanded him when he hath taken away his Power and Kingdom by parts he may command his life It 's a great doubt to me when God hath made Princes the Rulers of Prelates and Procurators of his Church whether it be not a sin against God and their undertaken office for these Princes to cast off this trust and work because a Pope or Prelate claimeth it The Pope still charged him with sacriledge But I doubt he expounded his meaning when he deposed him for diminishing the Majesty of the Church that is of the Pope and Prelates To proceed in the History In the 3d. or 4th battle it was that Rodulph was slain and It was the Popes denial to disown or excommunicate Rodulph after so low a submission of the Emperor that enraged Henry and made him think of another remedy than to be a Prelates slave The Pope called all the Bishops that cleaved to the Emperor seditious He condemneth Roland the German Legate and sendeth into Germany Legates of his own with a Mandamus We command that no King Arch-Bishop Bishop Duke Earl Marquess or Knight dare resist our Legates c. And the Penalty to the disobedient is terrible viz. We accurse him from Christ and take from him his part of Victory by Arms. Sure if Popes had the power of Victory they need not so oft have fled to Castles nor to have rid on an Ass with the face backward nor to have suffered what many of them have done All this he doth Interpositâ Dei et B. Petri authoritate quâ nulla potest esse major Did Peter ever think that his name would have thus subdued Emperors and Kings The Pope again in a prayer to God and St. Peter reciteth the 2d Psalm and telleth them how the Emperor would cast off his yoke and again curseth him from Christ and deposeth him from all his Government and absolveth all his Subjects from the Oath of Obedience saying that he that may bind and loose in Heaven hath power to take away on Earth both Empires Kingdoms and Principalities and whatever men have to give or take away If we Iudge the ruling Angels how much more their Servants Therefore saith he to the Bishops Let Kings and all secular Princes understand by the example of this man how great your power is in Heaven and how much God esteemeth you and let them fear hereafter to break the commands of the Church Pass this sentence presently on Henry that all may understand that this Son of iniquity fell not from his Kingdom by Chance but by your endeavor Plat. p. 180. Rodulph being killed the Rebels set up the Emperors Son a Lad against his own Father But at that present he was quieted and the Emperor went with an Army into Italy and first Conquered the Army of Mathildis the Popes Patroness and brought his own Pope Clement the 3d. to the Chair and was crowned by him He besieged Gregory in the Castle Guiscard a Norman cometh with an Army to fight for the Pope The Citizens resist him the Emperor being drawn out to Sens. Guiscard burnt and destroyed that part of the City which is between the Laterane and the Capitol and took the Capitol and destroyed it He gave the prey of the City to his Souldiers and delivered Gregory and carried him away to Câ—ssinum and Salernum where he dyed having reigned 12 years Bin. saith that Henry besieged Rome three years before he took it When Robert Guiscard had delivered the Pope he deposed quantum in se all the new Cardinals made by Clement 3. and cursed the Emperor again Gregory himself saith that Italian French and German Bishops were for the Emperor and they were also for Clement 3. How shall we know then which was the true Pope § 44. No less than ten Books of Hildebrand's Epistles are added by Binnius to his life Most of them for the Papal Interest In lib. 2. Ep. 5. He talketh of Philip King of France as he did of the Emperor saying he was no King but a Tyrant and declaring that he was resolved to take his Kingdom from him if he did not amend his wicked life One of his crimes was resisting the Pope that would set Bishops in his Kingdom without his consent Epist. 13. He tells Solomon King of Hungary that his Kingdom is the propriety of the Church of Rome devoted to it by King Stephen and reproveth him for diminishing the Roman Kingdom by accepting Hungary as from the Germans and exhorts him to repent and amend Epist. 18. He again threatneth the King of France to cut off from the Church both him and all that give him any Regal Honour or Obedience O heinous crime to keep the 5th Commandment and Rom. 13. 1 2 3. And that this excommunication shall be oft confirmed upon St. Peter's Altar Epist. 28. He suspends quantum in se the Arch-Bishop of Breme as an Enemy to the
that before had published the Excommunication of the Emperor Excommunicateth him again and goeth from Rome into Italy and France and sets the Princes upon the recovering of Ierusalem Listing 300000 Men and so reconciled most of their Strifes at home The History of this Expedition Platina briefly and many Authors largely give us to whom I refer you Conrade the Emperor's Son rebelleth against his Father encouraged by the Pope The Papal Historians pretend that his Father would have forced him to Incest but others think otherwise It was this Pope saith Bin. p. 1293. that appointed the horary Prayers called the Office of the Blessed Virgin to be used by Clergy and Laity for success against the Saracens Having Reigned eleven years and four months he died § 95. CCCLXXIV An. 1089. Urban in a Council at Rome repeateth against the Emperor and Pope Clement what was done before by Greg. the 7th Clement is expelled Rome and driven to renounce The Holy Wars breed reconciling thoughts The Papal Party offer the Emperor his Crown if he will depose Clement His Bishops dissuade him and he refuseth being otherwise for Peace inclined to it § 96. CCCLXXV A Council at Troy in Apulia about marriage of Kinsfolk § 97. An. 1090. A Council at Tolouse deposed the Bishop as criminal c. § 98. An. 1090. A Council of Urban's at Melfia decreed again that no Bishop receive Investiture from any Lay-man and that no Lay-man have right or authority over any Clerk Also against false Penance Hildebrand before had decreed that Penance and Baptism and so Absolution profit not impenitent undisposed Receivers § 99. CCCLXXVI A Council at Benevent condemned Pope Clement again § 100. CCCLXXVII Another at Troy did consult for Urban's interest § 101. CCCLXXVIII Another at Constance An. 1094. against married Priests and Simoniacs and about the number of Easter and Whitsun Holy-days And the Empress Praxes departed from the Emperor accusing the Court of most filthy Fornication perhaps the cause of their Calamities § 102. CCCLXXIX An. 1094. A Council at Ostio in France Excommunicated their own King Philip for putting away his Wife and marrying another and again Excommunicateth the Emperor and Pope Clement § 103. CCCLXXX An. 1095. A Council at Placentia heard the Cause of the Emperor of Const. begging help against the Infidels and of the King of France and the Empress complained how filthily she had been forced by her Husband's command It repeated damnations and decreed that no money be taken for Baptizings Chrysms or Burials § 104. CCCLXXXI A Council at Clermont for the same Causes It decreeth That if one injure another on Monday Wednesday or Thursday it shall not be reputed a breach of Peace but if it be done on any of the other four days it shall be judged a breach of holy Peace and be punished as shall be judged C. 1. And that no Clergyman shall receive any Honour or Preferment from the hand of Lay-men C. 15. And C. 16. That no Kings or Princes make investiture of any Ecclesiastick Honour And C. 17. That no Bishop or Priest make any promise of Allegiance to a King or to any Lay-man Ne Regi vel alicui Laico in manibus Ligium fidelitatem faciat Ligius is Liege or Ligatus a Vassal or full Subject And C. 19. That no Lay-labourer keep the tenth of his labour from the Clergy or receive from the Clergy the tenth of his wages § 105. It sheweth you that ever the Sacrament in one kind was not introduced in that the 28th Canon of this Council decreeth that None communicate at the Altar unless he receive the Body by it self and the Blood by it self unless through necessity or with cautelousness Can. 29. Any one that fled from his Enemies to any Cross was to be there protected as in a Church But the Ierusalem War was the main business of this Council by which the Pope cunningly turned away Animosities and Jealousies from himself and got the repute of a Holy Defender of the Church § 106. But in an English Council all the Bishops in the Kingdom save one Rochester would force Archbishop Anselme to renounce the Pope which Anselme refusing and reasoning against they said that he blasphemed the King setting up any in his Kingdom without his consent and so they jointly renounce their subjection and obedience to the Archbishop and abjure the unity of brotherly society with him Bin. p. 1302. You see Luther was not the first that renounced the Pope § 107. CCCLXXXII A Council at Tours for the Holy War where the King of France Philip was reconciled promising service to the Pope § 108. CCCLXXXIII An. 1097. A Concilium Barense was held for winning the Greek Church in their necessity where Anselme of Canterbury got the honour in disputing of the Procession of the Holy Ghost The sum of which Disputation is in his Works § 109. CCCLXXXIV An. 1098. A Council at Rome gave the King of England time to repent till Michaelmas the former Council had Excommunicated him if Anselme had not desired delay § 110. An. 1099. Another Roman Council for the Holy War and Reexcommunicating Pope Clement but what Clement did all this while is past over here § 111. An. 1099. Some little Council at Ierusalem put out Arnulph the Archbishop of Ierusalem as a wicked Man and Usurper and gave it to the Pope's Legat. § 112. An. 1099. Paschal the 2d is made Pope a little after Pope Clement dieth who had Reigned with his Competitors 21 years Being buried at Ravenna after five years a Council caused his Carkass to be dig'd up and burnt Decreeing That all the Bishops of the Henrician Heresie that is who were for Emperors being above the Pope or not deposable by him and for his power of Presentations or Investitures if they were alive should be deposed if dead should be dig'd up and burnt which were most of the Bishops of the West if Hildebrand himself mistook not O Military Bishops that can overcome the dead No wonder if the Church and Nations be confounded by you that cannot let each others Carkasses rest in their Graves but will dig up the bones of the Prelates of many Kingdoms even the greatest part How many Princes and Prelates now Papists are guilty of the Henrician Heresie Should not their bones also be burnt if you durst § 113. But the Schism continued three persons successively being made Anti-Popes by the Emperor's party but all of them one after another overcome by Paschal who being a Military Pope did most of his work by his Army which he frequently had on foot In his time Ierusalem and the Cities about were won by Godfrey of Bullen his Brother Baldwin Boemund Tancred and the rest of the Christians and Godfrey made first King and Baldwin next Boemund and Tancred having Antioch and after suffering great losses c. as you may read in the Histories § 114. Never did the Papal Rebellion work more unnaturally than in
setting up the Emperor's Son Henry against his own Father as excommunicate and deposed who being chosen in his stead by the Papal Faction overcame him and took him Prisoner and kept him till he dyed naturally or violently I know not at Liege § 115. Yet was the Pope deceived of his hopes For this Henry also was of the Henrician Heresie and having by the Pope's order kept his Fathers Corps five years unburied because Excommunicate he came with an Army after to Rome to be crowned Emperor and getting into the City the Pope's Historians say by perfidiousness and others lay the perfidiousness on the Pope he took the Pope and Cardinals that were for him Prisoners for denying him to confirm the Bishops which the Emperor had promoted and he kept him till he made him confirm them and grant him Investitures under his hand and seal and promise But when the Emperor was gone the Pope took his promise to be null and brake it he that can dispense with others may dispense with himself § 116. Binnius after many such others doth not only justifie the Pope's deposing of the Emperor but shamelesly saith that even the Novatores Haeretici as he calleth the Loyal and Orthodox will not deny but that he was justly deposed because saith he in a Letter to Hildebrand he said himself he might justly be deposed if he fell from the Faith and he was deposed for Heresie viz. for defending Priests Marriage selling Benefices contemning the Popes Excommunication and saying that he ought not to regard it Ans. 1. Doth every word in a Letter that you can distort forfeit a Crown 2. Did not the Apostles and ancient Christians obey Heathens and command it 3. Was it to the Pope that he forfeited his Crown How prove you that 4. Were these Apostolic Doctrines that Priests may have Wives as Peter had c. a falling from the Faith 5. Is every Princes Crown and Life at the Pope's mercy because he may judge him to be an Heretick 6. Are not the chief Christian Kings now that are Papists especially the King of France of that which is called The Henrician Heresie And may they be so deposed § 117. But one thing I desire may be noted of this Henrician Heresie that the Emperor did not take away the old liberty of the Clergy and People in chusing their Bishops Investiture was not Election or any determining Nomination but like our Inductions an after-consent and a delivery of possession by a Staff and Ring as may be seen in the form of Pope Pasohal's Grant in Nauclerus Gen. 38. p. 738. We grant and confirm to you that you may bestow Investiture by a Staff and Ring to the Bishops and Abbots in your Dominion FREELY ELECTED WITHOUT FORCE AND SIMONY And it medled not with the Presbyters but was only a Negative power of freely chosen Prelates induction who was still chosen by the inferior Clergy and the People § 118. How the old Emperor was basely deprived by the three Bishops of Mentz Colen and Wormes how he charged their Oaths of Allegiance on them how he denounced the Revenge of God against them how he was kept in such poverty that he desired for his relief to have been but an Assistant in the Monastery of Spire which he had built himself and was by the ungrateful Bishop of Spire denied how in his misery he confessed it was the justice of God for the sins of his youth Lust you may see in Sigon de Reg. Ital. An. 1106. Helmold Hist. Sclav c. 32. Sigebert An. 1106. Albert. Xrantz Hist. Sax. li. 5. c. 20 21 22 23 24. compared As also how his Body was digged up out of his Grave and kept five years by his unnatural Son in an unconsecrated place and after buried Thus ended one that had fought as Historians say with honour Sixty two Battels more than Caesar had done a Man had he duly mastered his youthful lust credibly described as of laudable endowments and one that shewed much zeal for the Clergy though he was not willing to be absolutely their Subject § 119. CCCLXXXV Of the Councils that were in Paschal's days the first was at Rome An. 1102. where the old Emperor Henry the 4th was again Excommunicate and a form of Anathematism made against all Heresies and in special against that Heresie that then troubled the Church which was That the Churches Anathema's and Bonds are not to be regarded It was time for Pope and Prelates to call that a Heresie when by Cursing they had got their Dominions and conquered so many Emperors and Kings But it 's a wonder that when Tibi dabo Claves would not keep up the credit of the Cursers that Cursing again should be able to do it Two Councils at London partly against the Clergies Incontinence and against Sodomy and partly to depose several married Priests I pass by § 120. CCCLXXXVI Fluentius Bishop of Florence published that Anti-christ was come Whether he told them who he was I know not But An. 1105. A Council of 340 Bishops was there called to try him for that dangerous doctrine and finding that Prodigies and Calamities drew him to believe it they chid him as a weak Man and warned him to talk so dangerously no more you may know why § 121. CCCLXXXVII When the young Henry began his Rebellion against his Father he called An. 1105. a Council at Quintilineburg where he solemnly called God and Angels to witness that it was not out of desire to Reign that he did what he did nor to depose his Father but to restore them to the Obedience of the Church lamenting his Father's obstinacy against it And he profest his Obedience to the Pope and drew divers revolted Archbishops to do the like § 122. CCCLXXXVIII An. 1106. A Council with the Nobility or Princes was called by Henry junior at Mentz where the old Emperor was again Excommunicated and forced to resign his Scepter to his Son and this by those Princes Prelates and Nobles that had sworn Allegiance to him supposing themselves absolved from all their Oaths by the Pope Now it was that the three Archbishops violently divested him When he asked them what was his fault and they said Simony in the Collation of Bishopricks and Abbies he adjured them the Bishops of Mentz and Colen with the Bishop of Wormes by the name of the Eternal God to say whatever he took of any of them And they said Nothing He thanked God that so far their own tongues justified him when their Bishopricks might have brought him no small Sum. § 123. CCCLXXXIX The Pope in a Council at Wastallis in Lombardy took in some submitting Bishops § 124. CCCXC Two Bishops at Ierusalem striving for the place one put out by the King but restored by the Pope died in his return the other by a Synod at Ierusalem was put out but made Bishop of Caesarea § 125. CCCXCI In a Council at Trecae the Emperor's Investitures are forbidden §
had so few that understood the original language or else they would have so tost and torn and sensed and nonsensed the Scripture that they would have made it quite another thing § 171. CCCCXIX Yet we have not done with Heresies A Council at Rhemes called by the banished Pope tryed a mad man an illiterate Rustick called Eum one unworthy to be called an Heretick saith Otto Frising who said he was the Son of God c. whom they sent to Prison where he dyed In the same Council Gib Porretane Bishop of Poictiers is again called where their Subtilties were disputed over again and Bernard Abbot Clareval being his chief Adversary upon Porretane ' s exception to some of his words saying Scribantur went and drew up some Articles of Faith seeming contrary to Porretanes and got many Bishops to subscribe them The Roman Cardinals took this heinously and came all together to the Pope and told him That it was they that of a private Man made him Pope and that he must know that it was they that were the Cardines on which the Axis of the whole Church did turn and that he must not now be his own but theirs and not prefer private and new Friends before his old common ones And that his Abbot Bernard with the Gallicane Bishops had audaciously presumed to lift up their Necks against the primacy and top of the Roman Seat which only doth shut and no man opens and opens and no man shuts which only may discuss matters of Faith And even when absent may not receive prejudice of this honour from any But behold these French-men contemning our faces or presence have presumed to write their Belief without consulting us as if they would pass a definitive Sentence on the matters that have been handled before us which had it been done at Antioch or Alexandria had been void How then durst these usurp in our presence We will therefore that you presently rise up against thus temerarious Novity and delay not to punish their Contumacy And so they had like to have run into a Schism But the Pope and Bernard spake them fair and Bernard said They wrote not as Determiners but to give account of their own Faith when provoked and so pacified the Cardinals But this Tumult hindered the deciding of the Case But saith Otto whether Bernard was decived by humane infirmity or Porretane escaped by hiding any thing by his great learning I must not determine § 172. CCCCXX Another Council An. 1150. the banished Pope held at Trevers where Bernard told him of the Revelations of a Woman Abbess called Hildegardis The Pope sent some to her she returns him a writing of her Revelations which he read admired and by Bernard's persuasion honored her with a Letter But what they were is not mentioned § 173. Conradus called Anastasius the 4th is next Pope and dyeth after a year four months and 24 days The glory of his time is said to be Ricardus de Sancto Victore a famous Writer specially de Trinitate and Gratian Lombard and Comestor § 174. Hadrian the 4th an English man is next Pope The Romans by request and threats importune him to permit their Consuls to govern them as heretofore He resolutely denieth them They wound one of his Cardinals He Excommunicateth and Curseth them Quaere Whether Rome was the Catholick Church when it was Excommunicate They had before desired him to come to the Lateran which he refused till they should turn out one Arnoldus Brixianus called by him a Heretick and Disciple of Abailard The People saith Platina took this ill and so hurt the said Cardinal I doubt the Romans themselves were for Hereticks The Pope curseth William of Sicily for invading the Church-lands The Greek Emperor offereth to help the Pope and to give him much Gold also if he shall but have three Maritime Cities in Apulia where he hath won them This afrighteth William to offer the Pope all again if he may but he called King of Sicily The Pope denieth it William angry over-runneth Italy The Pope repenting granteth him his desire The new Emperor Frederick also coming with an Army into Italy took some Cities belonging to the Church and gave them up to the Pope But when he came into the City to be crowned the Citizens enraged at the Pope for denying them their Civil Government shut the Gates the Emperor's Army being without and fell on many of the Pope's Followers and the Germans beat some and killed many The Emperor hereby provoked got in his Army and killed many of the Citizens and had done more but that the Pope dissuaded him Yet was the Pope and he fain to go round about to the Lateran to avoid another Battel Platina mentioneth the Pope's Cursing William of Sicily and absolving his Subjects from their Oaths that they might Rebel but saith nothing of the Emperor's after-quarrel with the Pope occasioned by a Letter of the Pope's rebuking him for not helping the Bishop of London saith Binnius and refusing an offered Bishop of Ravenna The Pope's Epistles against the Emperor c. Binnius leaveth out At last the Romans again rising against him he goeth to Anagria and dyeth § 175. An. 1160. Roland is made Pope called Alexander the 3d and Octavian called Victor the 4th is made Pope by others and sate four years and seven months This is saith Onuphrius the 27th Schism or double Papacy Three more succeeded Clement to keep up the duplicate before Alexander dyed of whom one Reigned five years and another seven Alexander addresseth himself to the Emperor Frederick to heal the Schism who therefore bids both the Popes come to him that he may hear the Case But Alexander himself refuseth and gets away The Emperor sendeth two Bishops to him to summon him to a Council Alexander refuseth to appear The Bishops go to Octavian Victor and the Emperor calleth a Council and this Council with the Emperor make Octavian the confirmed Pope Quer. Whether this was not as good Authority as Alexander's greater number of the Cardinals Hereupon Alexander curseth the Pope Victor and the Emperor and sendeth Letters to Christian Princes to tell them that he did it justly Wonderful that Empires and Kingdoms could be then disposed of by Cursing The Emperor seizeth on many of the Church-Cities Alexander returneth to Rome but findeth so many against him that he durst not stay there but flieth into France invited by King Philip and there again at a Council curseth the Emperor The Emperor Frederick destroyeth Milan and translateth thence to Colen the supposed Bodies of the Magi or three wise men that came to Bethlehem Is it not strange what brought them to Milan and how they came all to dye there together and how all their Bodies came to be known O the wisdom of Rome The rest of the Italian Cities and States raise an Army against him he sendeth to the King of France to end the Schism by bringing Pope Alexander with him to
the pretended KEYES § 202. Honorius 3d. succeedeth Innocent He confirmeth the Dominican and Franciscan Religions and Sainteth Francis He procureth a new expedition towards Ierusalem and the destruction of many The Emperor Friderick followeth his predecessors and invadeth Italy conquereth Sicily and Apulia being his own by his Mothers title But the Pope excommunicateth him and by the mediation of Iohn King of Ierusalem in title he is absolved § 203. CCCCXL. Stephen Laughton being restored a Synod at Oxford passed many general excommunications and there numbered all the Holy-dayes to be kept and made several Canons One good one was that every great Parish have two or three Presbyters because of the greatness of the work and if one should be sick c. Another repeated many old Canons that no fees be taken for Sacraments or Burials c. Another that no Clergy-mâ—n should keep their Concubines PVBLICKLY in their lodgings nor else where go to them with scandal A good caution for their credit § 204. CCCCXLI A German Council lamenting that Clergy-men kept their Concubines publickly and would not dismiss them forbids this publick keeping of them C. 1 2 3 5. But dealeth gently with them But C. 6. those that preach when the Bishop silenceth them it maketh infamous and intestable casting them out without hope of mercy or restitution ab officio et beneficio and rendering them uncapable for the time to come Here the Popes Legate demanded out of every Cathedral two Prebends to be given to Rome And great reason that he that giveth all even Bishopricks and Kingdoms should have some again even what he will But it was denied § 205. CCCCXLII Also in a Synod at Westminster An. 1226. the Pope demanding two Prebends out of every Cathedral the King answered that the matter belonged to all Christendom and when he saw what other Kingdoms did herein he would give his answer § 206. Gregory 9th is next Pope He commandeth the Emperor Friderick 2d to go recover Ierusalem and excommunicateth him aâ— a dissembler for his delaies He re-Sainteth St. Francis and St. Dominick He absolveth the Emperor upon his payment of an hundred and twenty thousand ounces of Gold for damage The greatest sedition and heresie saith Platina rose at Româ— that ever was there so that the Pope was banished But a plague ended it that left scarce the tenth man alive Again the Senators and the Pope agree not about Legislation and the Pope is fain to be gone again and gets the Emperor to promise him that their conjunct forces should assault the Romans The Emperor faileth and bids his Souldiers help the Romans himself departing the Pope by mony bireth them to help him and recovereth Rome He sendeth preachers abroad to call men to the holy War He Sainteth Elizabeth daughter to the King of Hungary An Army goeth into Asia with Theobald King of Navarre and others and is overthrown He would go to Rome but is kept out The Emperor taketh many Cities in Gregory's party get him into the City He again curseth the Emperor and deposeth him from his Empire by his presumptuous sentence The Venetians help the Pope The Emperor afflicteth them The Italians are divided In Pistoria two brothers one called Guelph was for the Pope and the other called Gibel was for the Emperor the City was 〈◊〉 and the name of Guelphs and Gibellines filled Italy with confusion The Romans were again falling off from the Pope but he went among them Carrying the heads of the Apostles you must believe it and by supplication and speeches moved the People to pity him and got them to fight against the Emperor which cost them and others of the Church party in Italy dear The Pope calleth a Council to depose the Emperor again to kill one man twice But the Emperor way-layeth them and taketh many Cardinals and Bishops and Imprisons them by the Pisanes help Gregory dyed for grief in his 14th year or 15th This is that Pope that by the help of Raymund made the Books of Decretals So much out of Platina Binnius addeth that the Emperor went with an Army into Asia in performance of his vow and received Ierusalem yielded to him And made ten years truce with Saladine and therefore was again excommunicated by the Pope § 207. In this Popes time saith Bin. the Divines of Paris after long disputation defined that it is a mortal sin for any man to have two benefices when one of them sufficeth to sustain him 208. Multitudes of the Albigenses were burnt and killed as Hereticks § 209. CCCCXLIII A Council at London under Otto the Popes Legate was held An. 1237. the King sending first to charge them to do nothing against his rights and leaving one to see to it The Legate was in danger for opposing Pluralities the Bishop of Worcester and multitudes theatning resistance and it was suspended § 210. Coelestine the 4th is next Pope but not by the Laterane Canon by two third parts of the Cardinals some say he lived 18 daies some 17 some 14 some say two Schismaticks were between § 211. The seat was void a year and eight months and more the Emperor keeping many Cardinals in prison but at the request of Baldwin of Constantinaple he released them § 212. Innocent 4th is next chosen who of a Cardinal-friend became by interest a Pope-enemy to the Emperor and daring not to stay in Italy fled into France and there calleth a Council of Bishops with these he hunted Princes and excommunicateth or curseth the Emperor where saith Matth. Paris An. 1245 one Priest being commanded to publish the curse he doth it thus Good People I am commanded to pronounce excommunication against the Emperor Frederick the Candles put out and Bells ringing But not knowing the reason though I know the hatred between them that one doth the wrong but which I know not as far as my power reacheth I excommunicate anathematize him that doth wrong absolve him that suffers the wrong which is so hurtful to all Christendome And at Lyons the Pope curseth him again The Emperor despised the Popes deposition and would not give up his Crown for fear of his curse The Popes party choose Henry Laudgrave of Thuringe Emperor who is quickly killed besieging Vlm as some say that party chose William Earl of Nassau after him Henry the Son of Friderick was drawn to rebel and being overcome by his Father soon after died And the Emperor not long after him by what death it is not agreed some say poysoned others say stifled by Mansfred his base Son some say he continued impenitent others that he repented of his opposing the Pope not probable some speak ill of him others extol him for Learning and worthiness § 193. Frederick being dead the Pope travels France and Matth. Paris saith that at his leaving Lyons a Cryer called the Citizens who had long entertained him to his farewel and that Cardinal Hugo made his farewel Speech telling
the Popes Heresie The rest is worth the reading but too long for me to repeat Much of it is to shew that Reading and Massing is more needful than Preaching and that every Priest that Masseth is not bound to Preach there needeth many Mass-Priests and not so many Preachers and that silenced excommunicated Priests are bound to cease preaching and obey the Prelates But he had the wit to add if silenced for a reasonable cause and to confess that Sententia injuste lata à suo judice si errorem inducat vel poceatum mortale afferet nec timenda est nec tenenda Pag. 364. He denieth that it is any Precept of Christ 1. To receive the Cup 2. Or that Priests Preach 3. Orto abolish all mortal sin 4. Or for the Clergy not to be Civil Governours c. IV. Ioh. de Poleâ—nar Archdiacon Barcinon hath a Treatise of three days speech for the Civil Power of the Clergy in which he mis-spendeth much time in disputing for their Propriety when as the Bohemians took Dominion for Empire or civil forcing power of Government and for inordinate possessions of Lordships and great wealth § 36. The Papists confess that this Council was Vniversal and rightly called and confirmed but they pretend that it was partly reprobate by the Popes removal of the Council and that Pope Nicholas 5. approved it but in part It began 1431. and continued above eleven years § 37. CCCCLXXIII An. â—438 A Council at Bridges concurred with this at Basil making the Pragmatical Sanction decreeing that a General Council be called every ten years and confirming the Council at Basil. § 38. CCCCLXXIV Next cometh the Anti-Council at Ferrary and Florence where the attempt for Union with the distressed Greeks was made all the passages whereof are so fully opened in the Greeks History published by Dr. Creighton that I shall say no more of it Here note that there were two General Councils at once and how could they both or either of them be truly Universal The Papists call it the sixteenth § 39. After many Wars Eugenius the deposed Pope died An. 1447. having made twenty seven Cardinals against the Council of Basils Decrees from whom is their succession and Nicholas the 5. succeeded him Italy still continued in bloody Wars Pope Faelix at last resigned and so there was once more but one Pope And that you may see still how far the Pope was from governing all the World the City of Rome was again seeking to recover their Liberties and had a Plot against him one Steph. Hircanius being the Chief and the Pope secured himself by hanging many of them § 40 The Emperour of Constantinople and those Bishops that pretended a Union with Rome in hope of help found the people and Clergy there utterly averse to come under the Pope and they had no help from him nor any of their desired successes for now the Turks took the City and killed the Emperour and many thousands more and 1455. the Pope died § 41. CCCCLXXV A Council at Tours about Church Orders decreed praying oft for the dead forbad Clandestine Marriages and Massing in unconsecrated places c. § 42. CCCCLXXVI A Synod at Lyons to end the Schisms between the two Popes done by the Emperour Frederick who desired King Charles concurrence § 43. An 1455 Calixtus the 3. is made Pope he raiseth a Sea Army against the Turks the Patriarch of Aquilâ—ia being Captain Rome was still in War He claimed the Kingdome of Naples to the Church for want of Heirs an Anti-Pope was also made called Clement 8. but being perswaded to resign he accepted a Bishoprick Many Cities in Italy ruined by Earthquakes whose ruines Platina saith he saw with admiration He made a new Holy-day for Christs Transfiguration § 44. Next cometh Aeneas Sylvius called Pius 2. one of the most learned of all the Popes especially an Orator He was against the Pope for the superiority of Councils at Basil but when he was made Pope he recanted it In his Epistle to his Father he excuseth himself for having a Bastard and for fornication particularly with an English Woman that lodged in the same house with him telling him that he was not an Eunuch and remembering his Father what a Cock of the Game he had been himself but among the Popes he was a wonder of worthiness He was vehement for a War with the Turks but could not so far quench the flames of War at his own doors in Italy and other Christian Countries as to accomplish it Platina recordeth many of his Sentences among which are Every Sect established by Authority is void of humane reason If the Christian Religion had not been approved by Miracles it should have been received for its honesty The Mortals measures of Heaven and Earth are more bold than true Astronomy is more pleasant than profitable The Friends of God are happy here and hereafter There is no solid joy without virtue They that know most doubt most Artificial Orations move fools not wise men As all Rivers flow into the Sea so all Vices into great mens Courts Flatterers rule Kings as they list Princes hear none so readily as accusers The tongue of a flatterer is the worst plague to a King He that ruleth many is ruled by many He is unworthy the name of a King who measureth the publick affairs by his own commodity c. Ill Physitians kill bodies and unskilful Priests souls Virtues enrich the Clergy Vice impoverisheth them Marriage was for great reasons forbidden Priests and for greater is to be restored to them He that too much pardoneth his Son cherisheth his Enemy The covetous never please men but by dying Lying is a servile vice c. You may see his Râ—cantation in Binius where his Dignity raised him so high as to say That the Greek and Latin Doctors with one voice say that he cannot be saved that holdeth not the Vnity of the Roman Church and all those Virtues are maimed to him that refuseth to obey the Pope though lying in sackcloth and ashes he fast and pray day and night and seem in other things to fulfill the Law of God because obedience is better than sacrifice and every soul must be subject to the higher power and it is manifest that the Pope of Rome is placed in the top or Crown of the Church from which his power of Government we know that no Sheep of Christ at all is exempted O then how much worse is the case of the Abassines Armenians Greeks Protestants even three fourth parts of the Christian World than of the Heathens being all certainly damned for not believing in the Pope How much more necessary to Salvation is it to please and honour the Pope than any Angel or Saint in Heaven But how false is it that the Greek and Latine Fathers all agree in this § 45. Paulus 2. succeedeth Pius a man just and clement saith Platina himself yet saith he before he was Pope