a Council where he would meet him with Victor Divo is the appointed place between France and Germany The Emperor with Victor and some Kings cometh to the Council Alexander refuseth because he call'd it not and calls another at Tours in France The Emperor angry returneth to Germany and sendeth Victor into Italy where he dyeth and Guido called Paschal the 3d is chosen after him The Romans chose Consuls that were Alexander's Friends and send for him to Rome and receive him The Italians then arm against the Emperor who cometh with an Army into Italy and taketh Ancona The Greek Emperor is drawn to promise the Pope a great Army against Frederick so he would unite the Empire and Churches again This afrighteth the Emperor The Tusculanes and the Abanes had a War with the Romans that oppressed them with Tribute and gave the Romans a grievous overthrow The Emperor besiegeth Rome William of Sicily sends help to the Pope The People of Rome intreat the Emperor for Peace which he promiseth on condition the worthier Pope may be chosen and the Schism ended The Pope Alexander hearing of this flieth secretly by Ship The Plague driveth the Emperor from Rome he goeth into Germany The Pope's Friends in Italy get strength The Greek Emperor Emanuel sendeth yet larger offers to the Pope if he would restore him the Western Empire by Re-union Pope Paschal dyeth The Tusculane Cardinal called Calistus the 3d is chosen in his stead and reigned seven years saith Onuphr But the Tusculanes refusing him he goeth to Alexander and resigneth to him all his right in Tusculum Whereupon the Tusculanes receive Alexander who there heard the Ambassador of Henry King of England purging him of the guilt of the death of Tho. Becket and sent into England two Cardinals with power to examine all the matter who imposed on the King though swearing he was innocent that for Penance he should maintain Soldiers for Ierusalem and for three years should have an Army against the Barbarians and defend the Church-liberties in his Land and not hinder Appeals to Rome All which he sware By which saith Platina he merited that the Title of the Kingdom of England should be transferred on him and his Heirs by the Pope's consent whence it is observed that all the Kings of England do recognize or acknowledge the Rights of the Kingdom from the Pope of Rome A just Reward for their serving the Titular Servant of Servants in his pestilent Ambition That he should thence take them for his Vassals and take himself for the disposer of their Crowns stooping to such Priests doth make them Kings of Kings Yet Alexander hath not got possession of Rome it self so far was he from being received by all the world and so low did he condescend as to offer the Citizens That if they would receive him he would come in peace and meddle with nothing but Divine matters leaving to them the care of secular things And when they would not grant him this much he went to Signia Was this man truly the Bishop of Rome that had no more of the Citizens consent so much as to dwell among them There he Canonizeth the Archbishop of Canterbury Tho. Becket for a Saint The Emperor entereth Italy and taketh many Cities but the Venetians owning the Pope and he being wearied with Wars at Papia treateth of a Peace But this not taking the Emperor shortly returned with another Army into Italy but was so hard put to it by the Millanois and others in one fight that he narrowly escaped death himself This one loss made the Nobles that followed him say That they suffered this because they fought unlawfully against the Church and if he made not his peace presently with the Pope they would go home So that the Emperor was forced to submit to the Pope for fear of being forsaken by his Subjects and Soldiers At Venice they met and the Emperor kissing the Pope's feet credible Historians say That the Pope trod on his Neck scornfully and profanely repeating the words of the Psalm Thou shalt tread on the Lion and Adder c. Ps. 91. 13. But Baronius and Binnius will not believe this though as Fowlis noteth p. 261. it is recorded by Ciaconius Masson and abundance more of their own Historians and preserved in the Archives of the Library at Venice and the Picture of the Story hang'd publickly in the Senate House The Emperor's severity against them of Milan was not for nothing They not only brake their Oath by Rebellion but when his wife Beatrix came to see the City set her on a Mule backward with the tail in her hand and so led her in scorn from one Gate out at the other What may not such provocation do to an Emperor The stir that there was about the Emperor's holding the Stirrup to Pope Urban is recorded by divers Historians And how the Kings of France and England did the like by Alexander And how this on debate was said to be their due The truth is the Papists Princes of Europe themselves are beholden to the Protestants for redeeming them from Servitude and their Kingdoms from the meer will and mercy of the Pope § 176. The Pope having conquered the Emperor by Cursing is past doubt now of Conquering Rome for such Men were Bishops by Conquest and not by Consent To Tusculum he goeth and now demandeth of the Romans that they abrogate the Office of the Consuls But finding this too hard a task to be done at once he maketh a bargain with them that none should by the People be chosen Consuls till they had taken an Oath of Fidelity to the Pope in his own proposed words and that they would never do any thing against his dignity And so Alexander goeth the third time to Rome and calls a Council but quickly dyeth when after twenty years contention he thought he was new setled in peace An. 1185. § 177. Onuphrius after Radavicus Frising Ioan. Cremon Abb. Ursperg c. saith that it was this Pope Alexander that first ordained that the Clergy and People being excluded from the Election of the Pope and so he was no true Bishop the choice should be in the Cardinals shut up in Conclave and go by two third parts of their Votes to avoid Schisms for the time to come Onuphrius saith that he had the writing of Pope Lucius the 3d that saith he was the first that was chosen by the Cardinals scrutiny though the Cardinals in a looser way were lately made Electors before He that is no Bishop is no Universal Bishop or Pope But he that is not chosen by the Clergy or People of that Church is no Bishop The Minor is proved by the Canons of many Councils § 178. The Epistles of Alexander are so full of Usurpation and Treason against Princes that Binnius thought it best to omit them and give you but the Titles But those that concern England are in Mat. Paris whom Binnius referreth you to
having power to take away Kingdoms and all that men have § 41 42. The Siege of Rome Two Popes Gregory's death § 42. He threatneth to depose the King of France claims Hungary c. § 23. Binnius record of THE POPES DICTATES telling in 27 Articles WHAT POPERY IS § 44. He claimeth Spain § 46 and Dalmatia § 49. A great part of the Bishops against him § 49. Pronounceth unsincere repentance fruitless § 50. Denyeth Divine Service in the Sclavonian tongue § 51. Ill weather imputed to the ill Lives of Priests The Armenians errours what § 51. Apulia c. the Popes § 51. One man turned an hundred thousand men in Spain from the Pope He threatneth to Excommunicate and depose the King of Spain as an Enemy to the Christian Religion § 52. He newly found St. Matthews body § 54. He will expose the Prince of Sardinia unless he obey him in making all Priests shave their beards § 55. Notes hereon The French convert the Sweeds and the Pope would reap the fruit § 56. His notable Epistle to prove Popes Priests and Exorcists above Kings § 57. Answered § 58. Peter pence § 59. An Arch-bishop suspended for not visiting Rome § 60. A pious Lie for Peace is a sin § 61. The old Spanish Liturgy partly contrary to the Christian Faith till now § 62. His respect to William the Conquerour c. § 64 66. The German Bishops hereticate the Pope for forbidding Marriage § 67. Matthew is forsaken § 68. Philip King of France and many great Bishops excommunicate § 69. Divers Councils excommunicating contrarily the Antipopes § 69 to 74. Ordinations null that are made pretio precibus vel obsequio and not by the common consent of Clergy and People § 75. He excommunicateth the Greek Emperour usurping § 76. The Greek affairs summ'd up § 77. The power of Pope and Bishops to depose Kings § 79. A Council Character of Gregory § 80. A Council make Loyalty to be Haeresis Henriciana § 87. The Disciple is not above his Master answered § 87. Wecilo's heresie that men obey not unjust Excommunications but may by others be received § 88. The 23d Schism § 91. Victor's Soldiers conquer Clement's § 92. Lay Princes presentations or Investitures are Heresie every Heretick is an Infidel It 's better be without visible Communion than have it with such § 93. Consectaries overthrowing Rome ib. A new Pope marrieth Mathildis to Welpho on condition they use not carnal Copulation § 94. A Jerusalem expedition causeth peace at home Conrade rebelleth against his Father § 94. The Emperour commits Fornication § 101 103. Wrongs on Monday Wednesday or Thursday no breach of holy peace No Bishop or Priest must swear or promise Allegiance to a King nor take Preferment from any Lay-man § 104. None to communicate in one kind § 105. All the Bishops of England save Rochester renounce obedience and society with Anselme Archbishop of Canterbury because he would not renounce the Pope saying he blasphemed the King setting up any in his Kingdom without his consent § 106. Time given the King of England to repent § 109. The Anti-Pope Clement digg'd up and burnt Paschal 2. Council Decree that all Bishops of the Henrician Heresie Loyalists if alive be deposed if dead digg'd up and burnt that is most of the Western Bishops § 112. The Schism continued § 113. The Pope set up young Henry against his Father who taketh him Prisoner to the death He keeps his Fathers Corps five years unburied because Excommunicate Yet proveth Hereticus Henricianus Imprisoneth the Pope till he grant him Investitures The Pope absolveth himself § 114 115. Cases on Binnius § 116. Note that Investitures supposed the People and Clergies free choice of Bishops § 117. The Bishops usage of old Henry to the last § 118. To take the Popes Excommunications as not obligatory is a Heresie § 119. The dangerous Doctrine of Fluentius Bishop of Florence that Anti-Christ was come § 120. Only the Church made Henry rebell § 121 122. Tybur coloured with bloud The Earl of Millans Flesh given to Dogs The Popes sacramental Covenant broken § 127. God will have no involuntary service § 129. The same is a Henrician Heresie in others which is none in the Pope § 132. He may forswear for the People of God § 132. Two Popes contending and excommunicating The Emperour giveth up Investitures § 135 to 138. Four Doctrines of Guilb Porretane condemned in Council 1. That Divinitas and Deus are not the same in signification 2. That the three Persons are not unum aliquid 3. That there are eternal Relations besides the Persons 4. That it was not the Divine Nature that was incarnate Two more Popes § 138 142. A Preacher murdered at Rome § 144. Two more Popes the succession from the wrong § 145. They fight for it § 146. How Clergy and People first lost their Votes in choice of Popes § 147. Two Popes still striving § 149 c. Many Castles in England built by two Bishops § 160. Abailard condemned unheard § 161. Caelestine II. the first Pope without the Peoples election An. 1143. Rome against the Pope Bishops are his strength § 168. Porretane again accused and puzzled the Council § 170. He is again accused by Bernard whom the Cardinals accuse for writing his Faith and getting Bishops hands to it § 171. The Romane people excommunicate by Pope Adrian 4. They are for a Preacher called by him an heretick § 174. Rome fighteth with Pope and Emperour They fight again and expel the Pope § 174. The 27 pair of Popes Wars between the Emperour Frederick and Pope The Crown of England held as from the Pope Yet Rome receiveth him not The Emperour submitteth being deserted c. § 175. The setling the choice of Popes by Cardinals The Pope no Bishop by the Canons § 177. The Roman Succession is from Alex. 3. when the Clergie People Emperour Princes and a Council of innumerable Bishops were for Victor § 176. Parliaments called Councils § 179. Ireland the Popes § 180. The Albigenses Henricians § 181. No Bishop may suspend a Presbyter without the judgment of his Chapter A perjured Clergie-man perpetually deprived Doubtful words to be understood as usually § 182. The Popes Party in Rome have their Eyes put out § 183. Frederick drowned in Asia § 187. The Kingdom of France interdicted § 190. The Pope seus up an Anti-Emperour who prevaileth § 192. England interdicted six years and three months § 194. The famous twelfth General Council at the Laterane under Inoc. 3. for Transubstantiation exterminating hereticks deposing Princes absolving Subjects forbidding unlicensed Preachers c. § 195. Almaricus burnt dead § 196. Stephen Langton and King John § 197. Ten Queries upon this Council § 198. The Canons of this Council true Mr. Dodwel's 17 Arguments for it § 199. The Papists excuses answered § 180. misnumbred The bloody Execution § 181. Oxford Canons that every great Parish have two or three Presbyters c. § 183.
their Wives is expresly renounced and it is decreed that no Priest be required to separate from his Wife so be it they abstain at Fasts and necessary Seasons nor any Priest endured to put away his Wife on pretence of piety else he must be deposed § 51. Another is the 16th Canon that maketh Deacons like Overseers of the Poor § 52. The 22d is a hard Canon that Bishops and Priests ordained with money and not by examination and election be deposed and they that ordained them § 53. The 36th Canon displeaseth them also which confess the Church of Constantinople's Priviledges as equal with Rome § 54. The 38th Canon containeth one great cause of the old Confusions viz. That whatever alteration the Imperial Power makes on any City the Ecclesiastical Order also follow it Did God make this Law Are not as many Souls in a Town that 's no City as capable of being a Church as Citizens It is in the Princes power to make and unmake Cities May he accordingly make or unmake Churches What if a King will have but one City in his Kingdom must there be no more Churches or Bishops What if there be no Cities as in many American and Arabian Countries must there be no Churches What if the King will disfranchize most of the Cities and another will make every Market Town a City must Churches be altered accordingly If so O that our King would make us so many Cities as the work and the souls of Men need true Bishops that one might not have a thousand Parishes without any subordinate Bishop But if this hold the Emperor might have taken down Rome and set up Constantinople or any other at pleasure § 55. Can. 50. Forbad Clergy and Laity to play at Dice on pain of Deposition or Segregation And Can. 51. forbids going to Shews Jesters Stage-Plays Huntings The 55th Canon commands the Church of Rome to amend their Customs and not to fast on Sabbath-days Can. 62. Forbids Womens Publick Dancings and Mens and Womens together and their putting on Masquers or Players Apparel or Persons c. Can. 63. Commandeth the burning of false Histories of the Martyrs as tending to bringing Religion into reproach continual joyful Praises to God and holy Exercises and to use no Horse-Races c. The 67th Canon is against eating Blood Can. 72. Nullifieth Marriage with Hereticks Alas good Bishops did you think the Papists would have Hereticated you as Monothelites and nullified all Marriages with you by this Canon But two Hereticks Marriage is not null Can. 78. Commandeth all the illuminate baptized to learn the Belief and every Friday to say it to the Bishop and Presbyters How many Parishes or hundred Parishes had the Bishop then to hear Not so many as ours § 56. The 82 Canon offends the Papists forbidding the Picture of a Lamb to be made for Christ as the Lamb of God The 90th Canon is an old one Not to kneel on any Lord's-day and that this begin on the evening before P. 155. Binnius reproveth them for calling Cyprian Archbishop and he proveth that Africa then had no Archbishop or Primate § 57. CCXXII An. 693. was another Toletan Council called by King Egica Before it the King writeth a Sermon for them wherein he tells them That every Parish that have twelve Families must have their proper Governor But if less it must be part of anothers charge § 58. CCXXIII. An. 694. was another Toletan Council under the same King Egica One would wonder that the Legislative vertue of the Church should be continued to such fertility and multitude of Laws as must follow if in all Countries there be every year a Council How great must the Volumes of Laws be at last Binnius in his Notes on this Council tell us That though Paul would have the believing Husband or Wife stay with the Unbeliever in hope of Conversion yet many hundred years experience hath taught us the contrary that it tendeth rather to hurt than good and therefore now it must be otherwise and they must separate § 59. CCXXIV. Even to those days the number of Pagans and Infidels in most Countries was the greatest and the care of good men was to convert them And therefore we read still of so many baptized at age A Council at Utrecht decreed Willebrood or Willifrid and Suibert being Leaders that the best Preachers should be sent from the Neighbor Churches to convert the Heathens that was better work than striving who should be chief or raging about hard words § 60. CCXXV. A Synod at Aquileia An. 698. condemned the 5th General Council at Constantinople for condemning the tria Capitula of the Council of Calcedon O what Concord Councils caused § 61. Pope Sergius refusing to own the Council of Constant. at Trul. under Iustinian 2d the Emperor commanded that he should be brought Prisoner to Constantinople The Soldiers of Ravenna Sergius having paid them the 100 l. of Gold hearing of it rose up and rescued him and made the Emperor's Officer in fear beg for his life By such Obedience Rome kept up § 62. Tiberius the 2d deposed Iustinian the 2d and cut off his Nose and banished him Iustinian was restored and exposed Tiberius to scorn and killed him and banished Bishop Callinicus to Rome for unfaithfulness to his Prince Iohn the 6th was now Pope § 63. Iohn the 7th is made Pope another Council at Toletum under King Witiza I pass by he was a Greek CCXXVI He gather'd a Synod at Rome to debate Iustinian's Order for the receiving the Trull Concil And our English Willifrid accused by his King was here justified as a Son of that Church And a Synod in England received him when the King was dead § 64. Sisumius made Pope lived but 20 days and Constantine succeeded him who was sent for to Constantinople and honoured by Iustinian § 65. About this time An. 708. Spain was conquered by the Saracens Binnius saith Because King Witiza forsook the See of Rome By which we still see that Rome was forsaken even by the best Church such as Spain then was and was not the Ruler of the World § 66. Bardanes Philippicus by Rebellion deposed Iustinian and was made Emperor and within two years was so used himself by Anastasius his eyes put out and he banished § 67. CCXXVII The Emperor Philippicus and Iob. Constant. called General Council at Constantinople I may well call it General when Binnius saith There were innumerable Bishops which is not said of any other Council They all condemned the 6th General Council and their Opinion of two Wills and two Operations Where it is manifest 1. How great a part of the Church regarded not the Authority of Rome 2. Nor thought a General Council infallible when innumerable Bishops are against both 3. And how strong the Monothelite Party was 4. And alas how bad too many Bishops that can change as fast as Emperors will have them For saith Binnius after Baronius Thus at the
though he oft reproach him for speaking truth Many are about Tho. Becket Archbishop of Canterbury and against the Emperor and the King of England forbidding the Coronation of Henry the 3d and suspending Roger Archbishop of York for Crowning him and such like to shew how he was King of Kings § 179. CCCCXXI Of the Councils in Alexander's time recorded by Binnius the first is An. 1160. at Papia called by the Emperor which voted Victor Pope and condemned Roland called Alexander The Letters of the Emperor and the Bishops tell us that this Council consisted of immunerable Bishops and Abbots and that the Emperor after a good Speech departed and left all to their judgments And that it was there proved by the Oaths of many Witnesses that Victor was chosen by the full consent of the People and Clergy and some Cardinals and that twelve days before Roland was chosen and that Roland was present and contradicted not but bid them obey him that was chosen And that after being Chancellor he stole out of the City and the major part of the Cardinals having before the death of the last Pope entered a Confederacy to choose none but one of themselves that confederated against the Emperor they secretly chose Roland the People and Clergy a multitude subscribing all desiring Victor There or four Kings also consenting to accept him when the Council declared him the onely true Pope and Roland a perfidious Usurper Here is all the Romans Clergy and People the Emperor and many Princes and a Council of innumerable Prelates of Germany Italy c. against the major Vote of an upstart sort of Men called Cardinals that had confederated treacherously before And yet the Roman Papacy is by Succession from this Man that was no true Bishop himself CCCCXXII CCCCXXIII CCCCXXIV CCCCXXV An. 1161. Alexander got a Council at Clermont and another at Newmarket and another at Belvacum and An. 1164. another at Tours to curse the Emperour and Pope Victor The French taking his part and the English at last kept up the Schism and Contention The Reader must take this notice by the way that such Meetings as we call Parliaments the Popish Historians often call Councils that they may draw Men to think that what Parliaments did was done by Clergy Power And when Lords Commons and Bishops met in the same Assembly some called them Parliaments and some Councils And as Spelman saith pag. 529. The same Assemblies were indeed mixt and partly Civil or Royal as he calleth them because called by the King and partly Ecclesiastical But among the Romanists Councils are greatly advanced by this ascribing to them the Acts and Power of Parliaments Accordingly the Parliament at Clarendon is called a Council by Binnius CCCCXXVI by the reproachful name of Conciliabulum because they setled the Rights of the King as Ruler of the Clergy and would not let the Pope be King of England which is the Henrician or Royal Heresie to be punished by Fire or other death on Kings themselves when the Pope is big enough to do it In this Council or Parliament Thomas of Canterbury and the rest of the Bishops concurred with the rest for fear But Thomas when he came home repented and imposed so strict Penance on himself that the Pope hearing of it was sain in absolve him § 180. CCCCXXVII An. 1171. Binnius saith that Ireland being given to the Pope as soon as they became Christians the Pope gave it to King Henry the 2d as soon as he had conquered it and a Council at Cassel was called for Reformation Note here 1. That the Pope hath great reason to seek the Conversion of the Kingdoms of the world if they are his when they are converted 2. That it is no wonder if five parts of six of the world be still Infidels or at least that they are unwilling to yield to Popish Christianity when Heathen and Infidel Kings must lose their Kingdoms and become Subjects to the Pope if they turn to Popish Christianity 3. That it hath long been a cunning way of Bounty with Popes to give Princes their own Kingdoms and Conquests when they cannot take them from them CCCCXXVIII An. 1179. was the Synod at Venice for reconciliation § 181. CCCCXXIX An. 1180. Alexander being at peace called a Council at Rome which they call General or the 11th General Council approved at Lateran In which are many reforming Canons and many for the Papal power The first is as aforesaid to confine the power of Pope-making to two third parts of the Cardinals only Another to degrade those ordained by the three Anti-Popes Another that no one have many Churches c. And the last against some called Cathari Patrini or Publicani as Hereticks giving those Indulgences that will fight against them and absolving all Inferiors from all Fidelity and Duty to them c. Some think that these were the Waldenses some the Albigenses But I have elsewhere shewed against Mr. Danvers that there were several sorts then in those Countries some Manichee Hereticks and some good Christians called Waldense and Albigenses but against the Pope and his Superstitions whom the Papists would jumble together to disgrace the best who were as some of their own Writers e.g. Sanders lib. 7. de vis Monar say A portion of the Henricians that is of the Emperor Henry's Heresie that held the Pope's false usurping Excommunications were to be contemned not as from Henry their Teacher that is they were Royalists and against the Pope's ruling the abused world by the Cursing way § 182. To this Council Crab and Binnius have annexed a voluminous Appendix of Decrees of which many are notable As that no Bishop may suspend a Presbyter without the judgment of his Chapter That a Perjured Clergy-man is to be perpetually deprived and may not govern a Church That in case of ambiguity of words we must have recourse to the common understanding of them with divers others § 183. Alexander dying Lucius the 3d is the first chosen by the Cardinals according to Alexander's Lateran Council as is aforesaid And to perfect the Papacy having got the choice of the Bishop out of the hands of the Clergy and People of Rome his Flatterers next persuade him to put down the Order and Name of Senators which attempting his Party by the Cities insurrection had their eyes put out and the Pope forced to leave the City and at Luca while he provoked Princes to send Soldiers to Ierusalem and Asia he dyed § 184. CCCCXXX One Council this Pope had at Verona as they say where the Emperor Frederick met him and sollicited him to restore all the Bishops and Clergy deposed that had adhered to him and the Anti-Popes The Pope consented but said he could not do it without another Council By which it appeareth that this at Verona was no true Council § 185. Urbanus the 3d is next Pope called Turbanus as an Incendiary by Ab. Ursspergens but better
spoken of by Platina he sate above one year It 's said that he dyed of grief for the loss of Ierusalem in his time CCCCXXXI A Council he had at Paris they say for Ierusalem too late § 186. Gregory the 8th succeedeth him two months and dyeth § 187. An. 1187. Clement the 3d succeeded him who importuneth the Christian Kings to recover Ierusalem The Emperor Frederick the King of France and Richard King of England go in person The Emperor was drowned in Asia as he was waâ—â—ing himself in a River The rest do much but all to little purpose but to the great destruction of many Christians The Pope sendeth an Army into Sicily to claim it for the Church because the King dyed childless There also bloody havock is made An. 1188. An Assembly at Paris furthered the Holy War Binnius will call it a Council § 188. Though this Clemens sate but three years and five months he ended the long War between the Romans and the Pope granting them their Senators but deposing their Patricius or Head that Union might not strengthen them § 189. Caelestine the 3d cometh next who to get Sicily from Tancred gets out of a Nunnery a devoted Virgin that was the Heiress and marrieth her to the young Emperor Henry the 6th and giveth him with her the Kingdoms of Sicily and Naples when he can get them and so wholly obligeth him to the Church and to surrender Tusculum which the Romans utterly demolish Sicily the Emperor gets and puts out Tancred's eyes but Naples was too hard for him his Soldiers dying of the Plague How the King of France and the King of England disagreed in Palestine and how the King of France returned home and treacherously joined with Iohn the King's Brother to invade the King of England's Dominions and so called him from attempting the Siege of Ierusalem and how he was taken Prisoner by the way home many Histories acquaint you § 190. Binnius out of Urspergens tells us how this Pope that had sent the King of France into Palestine for his repudiating his Wife after interdicted the whole Kingdom of France the use of holy thing O horrid Villany worse than Heathenish For one Man's Family-sin to forbid so great a Kingdom to worship their God and Saviour Saladine when he had taken Ierusalem dealt better with the Christians O bewitched Princes and People that by their degenerate Prelates would be brought to suffer or submit to such a wickedness contrary to the nature of all Religion O wicked Prelates and Clergy that would obey an Usurper in sucâ— a wicked Interdict But the King of France grievously punished his Clergy for the Fact For it was done by the Pope's Legat and the Bishops at a Council at Divion the CCCCXXXII here § 191. Next cometh the great Pope Innocent the 3d a young man of 30 years old called Lotharius An. 1198. § 192. The Duke of Saxony Otho the 4th succeedeth the Emperor Henry the 6th But Philip of Suevia is his Competitor and the King of France was for Henry's Brother and the Pope for Otho hating Frederick's Line Some say Philip conquered and deposed Otho but Petavius after divers others saith that they agreed that Philip should Reign quietly during his life and Otho afterward succeed him After ten years Otho a Palatine of the Rhine killeth Philip and Otho again Reigneth quietly marrying Philip's daughter But seeking to possess Apulia and Calabria by Arms and not obeying the Pope's Prohibition the Pope Excommunicateth him first and after sentenceth him deprived or deposed which at his command the Archbishop of Mentz publisheth which Otho despising the Pope to shew that he can make and unmake Emperors and Kings sets up Frederick King of Sicily Henry the 6ths Son by Câ—nstantia the Nun formerly saith Binnius which Petavius denieth and commandeth all to take him for Emperor The King of France stands for Frederick and the King of England for Otho Otho is overcome being forsaken and dyeth for grief and Friderick a young man twenty years old prevaileth § 193. Passing by the English and Scottish Councils for the Sabbath or Lords day CCCCXXXIII The Roman Council that deposed the Emperor Otto for rebellion against the Pope was An. 1210. § 194. This Pope excommunicated our King Iohn for rejecting Stephen Laughton Arch-Bishop of Canterbury Yea he deposed him quantum inse and interdicted Gods worship to the whole Kingdom for six years three months and fourteen dayes O wicked Bishops and Priests that would give over the worship of God because an Usurper forbad it The Pope gave the King of France commission to seize on England King Iohn is constrained to please the Pope What wars were hereupon in England and how he gave up his Kingdom at last to the Pope and to hold it as of him our own Historians certifie us yea and how he offered the King of Morocco to turn Mahometan for his help § 195. CCCCXXXIX Next cometh the famous 4th Laterane Council called by the Papists the 12th General approved of 400 Bishops and 800 other Fathers for others they have an 1215. Regn. Frider. 2. In the first Cap. is the Creed and their Transubstantiation asserted as the way of Union between Christ and us we taking his flesh as he took ours and that no one can make this Sacrament but a Priest ritely ordained according to the Keyes of the Church which Christ gave to the Apostles and their successours But the Sacrament of Baptism saveth by whom soever it is ritely done The 2d Cap. condemneth Abbot Ioachim's doctrine who opposed Lombard as making a quaternity for saying that Quaedam summa res est Pater Filius et Spiritus Sanctus et illa res non est generans nec genita nec procedens which the Council owneth The 3d. Cap. is this We excommunicate and anathematize every Heresie extolling itself against this holy Orthodox Catholick faith which we before expounded condemning all Hereticks by what names soever called having indeed divers faces but tails tyed together because they agree in vanity in the same thing And being damned let them be left to the present secular power or their Bailiffs to be punished by due animadversion the Clerks being first degraded from their orders so that the goods of such damned ones if they be Lay-men be confiscated but if Clerks let them be applied to the Churches from which they had their stipends But for those that are found notable only by suspicion unless they shew their innocency by a congruous purgation according to the considerations of the suspicion and the quality of the person let them be smitten with the sword of anathema cursed from Christ and avoided by all till they have given condign satisfaction so that if they remain a year excommunicate they be then condemned as Hereticks And let the secular powers be warned and induced and if need be compelled by ecclesiastical censure what offices soever they are in that as they desire to be
not temporal estates under them to take any oath of allegiance or fidelity to any Lay-man The 44. is to invalidate Lay-Ruler's Laws about ecclesiastical matters as Glebes Mortuaries c. the rest I pass by § 196. In this Council besides the Albigenses and Abbot Ioachim Almaricus a learned man was condemned they say he said that All Christians were Christs members and they add how truly is doubtfull suffered by the Iews with him that Christ's body was no more in the sacrament than in another thing That Incense as offered in the Church is Idolatry That every Christian is bound to believe that he is a member of Christ That if Adam had not sinned there should have been no generating in Paradise nor difference of sexes We must take these things on the report of such as Sanders with some other that they charge on him for which when they had killed him with 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-Bishop of Canterbury was deposed for taking part with the Barons of England against King Iohn whose case was now become the Pope's when he had given him his Kingdom in so much that when the Arch-Bishop confessed and begged absolution his Holiness answered By St. Peter Brother thou shalt not so easily get absolution who hast done so many and so great injuries not only to the K. of England but to the Church of Rome § 198. Let the Reader note that 1. General Councils are the Papists religion 2. That this is one of their greatest approved General Councils 3. That therefore by their Law and Religion they are bound to exterminate all Protestants and that all Princes must be deposed that will not execute it and their dominion given to others that will 4. That all Protestants and others called Hereticks are dead men in Law and want but judgment and execution where their Law is in force 5. That the Henrician heresie is one that is judged such by their Councils 6. That therefore not only all Protestant Kings but all Papists that are for the safety and power of Kings against the Popes pretended power of condemning and deposing them are Hereticks to be exterminated and burnt by many Canons 7. Therefore Kings are beholden to the Protestant reformation disabling the Pope to execute his Laws and Religion for their Crowns and lives 8. That when ever any King or others set up Popery and the power of their Laws and Councils in a Kingdom that is reformed the subjects are presently dead men in Law being to be destroyed as Hereticks though Policy or want of power may hinder the execution 9. Qu. Whether it be lawful for any King or in his authority so to destroy his Kingdom or to make all or the generality of his subjects dead men in Law 10. Whether by these Laws the Pope and his consenting Bishops have not published themselves to be hostes Regum et Regnorum if not humani generis and are not so to be esteemed § 199. Note also that D. Heylin in his Certamen Epistolare against me answereth that it is not Kings but temporal Lords that are mentioned in this Council and that he and Bishop Taylor and Bishop Gunning and Bishop Pearson in their dispute published by Terret or Iohnson and others before them have maintained that these Canons were but proposed by Pope Innocent and not consented to and passed by the Council But to the first It is clear 1. that by Domini Temporales Councils ordinarily mean Emperors and Kings as well as any others 2. That the words of the Council are express eâdem nihilominus lege servatâ circa eos qui non habent Dominâ—s principales And to the 2d I answer 1. The Church of Rome actually taketh this for one of their approved General Councils and will not be beholden to our Bishops for their friendly favour and excuse And therefore it is all one to us whether the Council consented or not 2. Mr. Henry Dodwel in his late considerations how far Papists may be trusted by Princes c. pag. 167 pag. 174 c. hath fully answered all the reasons given by these Bishops as Terret did in part before and hath added abundant proof that these Canons were passed in that Council 1. From the Council at Oxford where Stephen Laughton himself was 2. From Mat Paris who is alledged for the contrary 3 From Gregory 9th's decertals 4 From the case of Iohn Blunt elect Bishop of Canterbury recited by Mat. Paris an 1233. 5. From Otto the Pope's Legate in M. Paris an 1237. and that London Council 6. From the Popes Letter to Otto an 1238 in M. Paris 7. From Honorius the 3d's condemnation of Rich. de Marisco Bishop of Durham 8. From P. Clement the 5th's Bull for King Philip the Fair. 9. From the Council of Tarragon 10. From the Council at Vienna under Clement 4th 11. From the General Council at Lyons under Gregory 10th 12. From the Sabine Council in Spain 13. From a Council at Toledâ— under Benedict 12th 14. And from the Council of Trent 15. From the Common sense of the Case of Abbot Ioachim 16. And of the word Transubstantiation 17. And of annual confession All taken as setled by this Council So that as the Papists will not accept of this Charity of our Bishops in excusing their Religion from this part of guilt so there is little place indeed for an excuse § 200. The Papists themselves though they have many other Councils and instances to prove the Popes Claim and Practice of deposing Princes yet will not let go this as being a famous General Council But when here in England they would excuse their Religion from Rebellion they use to say that this being not an Article of Faith but a Canon of Practice they are not bound to take it as infallible To which the said Mr. Henry Dodwell ibid. pag. 185. hath largely answered to which I refer the Reader adding only that That which must be Believed to be of God is not alway matter of practice yet what must be done as by the wiâ— of God must alwaies be first the matter of faith we must believe that it is God's will before we can obey it as his will The full answer see as aforecited § 201. In the performance of the Laws of this Council multitudes called hereticks were burnt Their St. Dominick preaching to the people to perswade them to take arms under the Sign of the Cross to destroy the Hereticks for to get pardon of their sins so that from first to last many hundred thousand some say two millions but that seemeth too much were killed in France Savoy Germany Italy and other Countreys see Sam. Clerk Martyrol and Arch-Bishop Vsher deâ—success Eccles Thus hath Papal Rome been built and maintained by Blood Rebellion and Confusion under pretence of Church Purity Unity and Government and all by
them what good they had done the City For when they came thither they found three or four bawdy houses but at their departure they left but one But this one reached from the East Gate of the City to the West gate § 194. The Pope returneth into Italy and seeketh to get men to ruine Conrade the late Emperor Fridericks Son The King of Englands brother Richard is first invited but deniâ—d due help and refuseth King Henry the third himself at last is drawn in and furnisheth the Pope with a great deal of money and the Croisado Soldiours are turned against Conrade from the relief of Palestine Bitter accusations against him are published by the Pope which Conrade answereth He and Robert Grosthead the famous Learned holy Bishop of Lincoln dying near together the Pope biddeth all that belong to the Church of Rome to rejoyce with him because these two their greatest enemies are gone And if such wise and holy men as this Bishop were numbered with the enemies of the Pope we may conjecture what he was and did and whether all the Christian World were then his Subjects and whether Rome then needed reformation § 195. But though the King of England had so far served him it was not enough Nothing less than all would serve as Matth. Paris tells us when the King would yet be King and did not fully obey the Pope which he manifested in his rant against this rare and excellent Bishop of Lincoln the occasion of which I think well worthy of our recital as it is in Matth. Paris Anno 1453. pag. 87â— 872. A credible Monk though oft reviled by Baron and Bin for telling truth This Bishop was one of the famousest men in the whole world for knowledge piety and justice The Pope had sent him an order as saith Matth. Paris he often did to him and other English Bishops to do somewhat which the Bishop judged to be unjust It was not so bad as an interdict to silence Christs Ministers but whether it was the promoting of bad Ministers or hindering or excommunicating good men some such thing it was as you may see by what followeth The Bishop writeth a Letter to the Pope and Cardinals in which he tells them That he would obey the Apostolical precepts but that was not Apostolical which was contrary to the doctrine of the Apostles Christ saying he that is not with us is against us And that cannot be Apostolical that is against Christ as the Tenour of the Popes Letters were His non obstante so often repeated shewed his inconstancy and his blotting the purity of the Christian Religion and perturbing the peace and quiet of Societies a torrent of audaciousness procacity immodesty lying deceiving hardly believing or trusting any one on which innumerable vices follow And next after the sin of Lucifer which in the end of time will be that also of Antichrist the son of perdition whom the Lord will destroy with the Spirit of his mouth there neither is nor can be any other sort of sin so adverse and contrary to the doctrine of the Apostles and the Gospel and so hateful detestable and abominable as to kill and destroy souls by defrauding men of the care of the Pastoral office and Ministry which sin those men are known by the most evident testimonies of the sacred Scripture to commit who being placed in power of pastoral care do get the salary of the pastoral office and ministry out of the milk and the fleece of the sheep of Christ who are to be quickened and saved but administer not to them their dues For the very not administring of the Pastoral ministeries is by the testimony of Scripture the killing and destroying of the sheep And that these two sorts of sins though unexpectedly are the very worst and beyond all comparison exceed all other sort of sin is manifest by this that they are in the two existent foreâ—aid things though with disparity and dissimilitudes directly contrary to the best things And that is the worst which is contrary to the best And as for these sins as much as in them lieth one of them is the destruction of the Godhead it self which is superessentially and supernaturally best and the other is the destruction of that conformity and deiâ—ication of souls by the gracious participation of the Divine beams which is the best thing essentially and naturally And as in good things the cause of good is better than the effect so in evils the cause of evil is worse than the effect is manifest that the introducers in the Church of God of such most mischievous destroyers of holy formation and deification in the sheep of Christ are worse than the destroyers or murderers themselves the nearer to Lucifer and Antichrist and in the greater degree of mischief or priority by how much the more superexcelling and by the greater and diviner power given by God for edification and not for destruction they were the more bound to exclude and extirpate such most mischievous murderers or destroyers from the Church of God It cannot be therefore that a holy Apostolick Seat to which all power is given by our Lord Iesus Christ the holy of holies for Edification and not for destruction as the Apostle testified should command or require any thing that bordereth on or tendeth towards so hateful detestable aud abominable a thing to Iesus Christ and so utterly pernitious to mankind or by any way endeavour any thing that tendeth thereunto For this were either a defection or a corruption or an abuse of Christs own power which is evidently most holy and most full or it were an absolute elongation from the Throne of the Glory of our Lord Iesus Christ and the next sitting together of the two foresaid Princes of darkness and of hellish punishments in the chair of pestilence Nor can any one with unspotted and sincere obedience who is a subject and faithful to that same Seat and not by schism cut off from Christ and that holy Seat obey the said mandates and precepts or any endeavours whatever and whensoever they come yea though it were from the highest order of Angels but must necessarily contradict them and rebel with all his strength or power And therefore Reverend Lords from the duty of obedience and fidelity in which I am bound to both the parents of the holy Apostolick Seat and from the Love which I have to Vnion in the body of Christ with it I do only filially and obediently disobey contradict and rebel to the things which in the foresaid Letter are contained and specially because as is before touched they do most evidently tend to that sin which is most abominable to our Lord Iesus Christ and most pernitious to mankind and which are altogether adverse to the Sanctity of the holy Apostolick Seat and are contrary to the Catholick Faith Nor can you discretion for this hint conclude or decree any hard thing against me because all my
contradiction and action in this matter is neither contradiction nor rebellion but the filial honour due to the Divine Father and of you Briefly recollecting all I say the sanctity of the Apostick Seat can do nothing but what tendeth to edification and not to destruction For this is the plenitude of power to be able to do all to edification But these things which they call provisions are not to edification but to most manifest destruction Therefore the blessed Seat of the Apostle cannot accept them because flesh and blood hath revealed them which possess not the things that are of God and not the Father of our Lord Iesus Christ who is in Heaven § 196. When the Pope heard this Letter saith Mat. Paris p. 872. Not containing himself through wrath and indignation with a writhin aspect and a proud mind he saith who is this doting old man deaf and absurd who boldly and rashly judgeth my doings By St. Peter and St. Paul if our innate ingenuity did not move us I would precipitate him into so great confusion that he should be to the whole World a Fable a Stupor an example and a prodigy IS NOT THE KING OF ENGLAND OVR VASSAL AND I SAY MORE OVR SLAVE WHO CAN WITH OVR NOD IMPâ—RISON HIM AND ENSLAVE HIM TO REPROACH These things being recited among the Cardinal brethren with much ado asswaging the rage of the Pope they said to him It is not expedient O Lord that we decree any hard thing against this Bishop himself For that we may confess the truth the things are true which he speaketh We cannot condemn him He is a Catholick Yea a most holy man more religious than we are more holy and excellent than we and of a more excellent life so that it is believed that there is not among all the Prelates a greater no nor any equal to him This is known to the whole Clergy of France and England Our contradiction will not prevail The truth of this Epistle which perhaps is already known to many may stir up many against us For he is esteemed a great Philosopher fully learned in Greek and Latine a man zealous for justice a Reader of Theology in the Schools a Preacher to the people a Lover of chastity a persecutor of Simonists These words said the Lord Aegidius a Spanish Cardinal and others whom their own Consciences did touch They counselled the Pope to wink at all this and pass it by with dissimulation lest tumults should be raised about it especially for this reason that IT IS KNOWN THAT A DEPARTVRE WILL SOMETIME COME so far Mat. Paris § 197. Yet neither this Bishop nor the Historian flattered Princes but both of them sadly lament the oppression and other sins of King Henry And the Bishop commanded his Presbyters to denounce excommunication against all that should break the Magna Charta the Charters heretofore granted foreseeing saith Mat. Paris what the King would do And he sharply reprehended the Fryar Minors that would not tell Great men of their sin when they had nothing to lose Cantabit Vacuus c. having chosen poverty that they might be freer from hindering temptations § 198. When he lay on his death bed at Bugden in Huntingtonshire he told Ioh. Aegidius his learned friend that he took them for manifest Hereticks that did not boldly detect and reprove the sins of great men and thereupon reprehended and lamented the sins of Prelates but especially the Roman reciting their putting unworthy and bad men into the Pastoral office for kindred or friendship sake The third day before his death he called to him many of his Clergie and lamenting the loss of souls by Papal avarice groaning he said Christ came into the world to win souls Is not he then deservedly to be called Antichrist who feareth not to destroy souls God made all the World in six dayes but to repair man he laboured above thirty years And is not a destroyer of souls then judged an enemy of God and Antichrist c. Next he goeth on to shew how sinfully the Pope by his non obstante overthrew even the rights that his Predecessors had granted vainly pretending that they bind nothing because par in parem non habet potestatem and what evils to the Churches he had done and addeth I saw a Letter of the Popes in which I found inserted that they that make their Wills or that undertake the Crâ—isado and to help the holy land shall receive just so much indulgence as they give money c. And so goeth on naming his imposing men that cannot preach or strangers of other languages as Pastors on the people and his covetous and greedy devouring all the wealth he could get concluding Ejus avaritiae totus non sufficit orbis Ejus luxuriae Meretrix non sufficit omnis And that he drew Kings in for his own ends making them partakers of the prey Prophecying that the 〈◊〉 will not be freed from Egyptian servitude but by the mouth of 〈…〉 These things are small but worse will follow within three years sighing and weeping out these words his speech failed him and he died And ibid. Mat. Paris saith that the same night that he died wonderful Musical sounds and Ringings were heard near in the Air by several friars and by Fulk Bishop of London then not far off who said when he heard it that he was confident their reverend Father Brother and Master the Venerable Bishop of Lincoln was passing out of the World to Heaven The Bishop being dead the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury and the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln fell out in striving who in the vacancy had the power of giving Prebends wherein the Arch-Bishop by Power utterly oppressed them And M. Paris p. 880. affirmeth that Miracles were done after the death of this Bishop by his virtues at Lincoln and yet confesseth some of his faults and his sharp thundring against Monks and Nuns c. § 199. The same Author tells us p. 883. anno 1254. that the Pope was so unmeasureabley wrathful against this holy Learned Bishop that when he was dead he would have taken up his bones and cast them out of the Church and purposed to precipitate him into so great infamy that he should be proclaimed a Heathen a rebel and disobedient to the whole world and he commanded a Letter to that purpose to be written to the King of England knowing that the King would be mad enough against him and ready enough to prey upon the Church But the next night the said Bishop of Lincoln appeared to him in his episcopal attire with a severe countenance an austere look and terrible voice he came and spake to the Pope that was restless in his bed pricking him in the side with a violent thrust with the point of his pastoral staffe which he carried and said miserable Pope Senebald Dost thou purpose in disgrace of me and the Church of Lincoln to cast my bones out of the
Church Whence did this timerity befal thee It were better that thou advanced and honoured by God should honour those which are zealous for God even when they are dead Henceforth God will give thee no more power over me I wrote to thee in the spirit of humility and love that thou shouldst correct thy many errours But with a proud eye and a bewitching heart thou hast despised wholesome warnings Wo to thee that despispest Shalt thou not be despised And the Bishop Robert departing striking as with a lance the Pope who when as is said he was pricked groaned aloud he left him half dead and with a mournful voice groaning with sighs His Chamberlains hearing him being astonished asked him what the matter was The Pope answering with sighs and groans said The terrours of the night have vehemently troubled me nor shall I ever be well again as I was Oh alas how great is the pain of my side A ghost hath pierced me with a lance An he neither eat nor drank that day feigning that he was inflamed with feavours that streightened his breath And Gods revenge and wrath did not so leave him Not long after the Pope not sensible of Gods warnings by his Servants but setting about warlike and secular matters he prospered not in them though he laid out great care and labour and cost But Wars yea the Lord of hosts being against him his army which at great charges he had sent against the Apulians under the conduct of his Nephew William being scattered conquered and confounded perished with their Captain mortally wounded They say there were there slain of Souldiours and valiant stipendiary's of the Pope four thousand men And the whole Countrey of the Romans lamented the shedding of so much Christian blood The Pope then went to Naples though weakened as with a plurisie in his side or as wounded with a lance And Cardinal Albus physick could not help him For Robert of Lincoln spared not Sinâ—bald of Genoa And he that would not hear him warning him when alive felt him peircing him when dead Nor did the Pope ever after enjoy one good day till night nor one good night till day but sleepless and molested Thus M. Paris § 200. M. Paris p. 896 anno 1254. saith that Henry the third of England obliged himself and his Kingdome unjustly to the Pope under pain of being disinherited to pay all the treasure which the Pope should lay out in his War for the King that is to have made him King of Sicily And that the Pope having no mercy on England prodigally wasted its money but those vast sums got by rapine were all lost § 201. The same Author saith p. 897. that when Pope Innocent lay dying after the stroke of the Bishop of Lincoln and the loss of his Army and his followers lay crying about him he opened his dying eyes and said what do you mourn for you wretches Do I not leave you all rich what would you have more And so he died § 202. CCCCXLIV Anno 1245. Innoncent calls a Council called General their 13th Approved at Lyons of 140 Bishops where he heaped up accusations against the Emperour whom Thaddaeus his agent defended And at last pronounced himself an excommunication and deposition absolving all his Subjects from their Oaths and Allegiance and excommunicating all that should own and help him Here you see that more than one of their approved General Councils are for Rebellion and perjury and the Popes deposing Christian Emperours In the same Council sad Complaints were made from England of the pillaging or woful impoverishing of the land by the Pope and King but the Pope heard all silently and would give no answer § 203. At this Council the Pope importuned the Electors to choose another Emperour some refused and stuck to the Emperour saying that it belonged not to the Pope to make or unmake Emperours Others obeyed him and set up Henry of Hassia But the Emperour while he lived kept up his possession so far as to make the Pope repent and saith Trithemius was a weary of his life But all Germany Italy c. were confounded by the schim or contention one half as is aforesaid called Guelphes following the Pope and Henry the other called Gibelines cleaving to the Emperour Frederick to the shedding of abundance of Christians blood and the desolation of Countreys and the shame of Papal tyranny § 204. Anno 1254. Alexander the 4th was Pope Matth. Paris tells us of a terrible dream that he had of Pope Innocents damnation or misery But the fault of his writing is that he was too credulous of dreams and visions He tells us also of twenty Miracles done at Lincoln for the sake of the late Bishop Robert And that at a Parliament in London the greatest which hath been seen all the Nobles Ecclesiastical and Civil demanded of the King that the choice of the Lord Chief Iustice the Lord Chancellor and the Lord Treasurer should be in the Parliament or their common Council as of old was usual and just and that they should not be removed without notorious faults which the Kings secret Councellours perswaded him to deny Prelates and Nobles being grieved by exactions express it c. § 205. Here the said Monk Matth. Paris exclaimeth O the steril solicitude of the Roman Court their blind ambition Though holy yet often deceived by the Council of bad men Why dost thou not learn to moderate by the bridle of discretion thy violence being taught by thing past and so often chastised by experience In thy losses we are all punished c. Thou now endeavourest to make two German Emperours which must cost inestimable treasure whence soever taken and both uncertain of the dignity c. § 206. At that time the Lords and Prelates of England crying out of the King Hen. 3d. as false and oppressive and pillaging Churches and People to maintain his profuseness the Bishop of Hereford laid a Plot which the King accepted that getting the hands and seals of a few Bishops he would go to Rome and get power from the Pope to gather the King as much money as he needed So to Rome he went and there found the Pope in great grief and care himself for money to pay vast debts that his Wars had cost him The Bishop told him that the King who had engaged his Kingdom to be forfeited if he paid not the Popes debts would help him to money if he would be ruled by him and write to the Bishops and Churches to grant the King such help as they could well do The Pope gladly gave leave to the Bishop to write what he would And home he went and Eustandus a Legate was sent from Rome to see all done saith M. Paris p. 911. anno 1255. The Legate was prepared and ready in all things to the destruction of all England to obey the will of the King which was tyrannical and to bind the oppressed contradictors in the
bonds of Anathema Rustandus cometh with the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of Hereford is empowred by the Pope to gather moneys for the Pope or King A Parliament is called at Westminster They refuse and go home The Popes Letters press the Collection A Council of Bishops is called at London so much money is demanded saith M. Paris as would have enslaved or undone all the Kingdome The Bishop of London protested he would lose his head rather than consent The Bishop of Worcester said he would be hang'd first The rest follow them The King is angry and threatneth The Earl Marshal in anger when the King called him Traytor answered thou liest I never was a Traytor nor will be The King threatned to send men to thresh out his corn and fell it to humble him The Earl told him if he did so he would cut off the threshers heads and send them him some interposed for the time The Lords refused to meddle with the Kingdomes business or to impoverish themselves and were dissolved Rustandus again Congregateth the Bishops at London They did nothing again saith M. Paris too boldly p. 917. Si enim sive juste sive injuste per dictum Magistrum Rustandum suspendâ—retur quis vel excommunicaretur Rex quasi Leo in abscondito quaerens quem devoraret post 40 dies omnia direperit infiscata Papa Rex vâ—lut Pastor Lupus in ovium exterminium confoederati omnibus ruinam minabantur And then saith he like blind men groping for the wall the Council were divided and as English men are used to do every one shifteth for himself or seeketh to save himself Tithes are now paid by the Clergy to the Laity They are granted for the Magna Charta which was not kept They are granted as for the holy land and turned against Christians in Apulia Many lies and false oaths are imposed saith M. Paris p. 919. The next year the Clergy were called again 1256. Rustandus the Legate said All Churches are the Popes Leonard the Prolocut râ— answered yes to defend not to enjoy and appropriate as we say All things are the Prince's that is to defend and not to disperse And this was the intent of the founders The Legate angry at this answer commanded that henceforth without a Prolâ—cutor every man should speak for himself that they might be known which astonished and silenced all He commanded them to subscribe a Lie that they had received such sums of money of forreign Merchants and Vsurers which they said it waâ— good Martyrdome to die for the refusing of Pag. 920. Here is annexed by M. Paris A charter of King Iohn confirmed by Pope Innocent 3d. ordering that all Bishops be freely elected without the Kings hinderance by the Church vacant and cursing all that otherwise come in pag. 921. § 207. At that time the Romans imprisoned a great Citizen Beaucales for his justice The Bononians detain many Romans pledges for him The Bononians are interdicted sacred things but they yield not till Beaucalco is delivered M. Paris anno 1256. The Letters of Pope Alexander and his many exactions see farther in M. Paris this year § 208. Anno 1257. saith M. Paris some went to Rome for the Bishoprick of Ely and the Church of St. Edmunds and gave and promised so vast sums of money as astonished men with wonder Whereupon the Pope made a new Law that every Elect Bishop should come personally to Rome hoping to have the like prey from others § 209. Anno 1258. saith M. Paris p. 910. The Pope that claimed the Kingdomes of the World was mastered in Rome by the foresaid Senator Braucaleo who being delivered from Prison was beloved of the people executed the Malefactors and his enemies forced the Pope to stay his excommunication and humble himself and beg his mercy § 210. The same year the Pope pretends anger to the King of England for not temperating his excesses and threatneth to excommunicate him The King is afraid and sends him money and stops his mouth p 910. § 211. Against the Parliaments will the King again hearkeneth to the Pope that offereth now the Kingdome of Apulia to Edmund his younger Son as he did before to Edward the Elder But the Parliament denieth him money which he screweth from the Abbeys and Churches § 212. saith M. Paris Sewale Arch-bishop of York now died a Martyr though without blood as many do having constantly fought against the Tyranny of the Roman Court oppressed by the Pope wrote earnestly as Rob. of Lincoln had done to the Pope to cease his tyranny In his sickness sath M. P. he called for water which was fetcht out of the Well and it was turned into excellent Wine p. 969. § 213. How the Parliament of Barons at Oxford this year 1258. entered their Confederacy and resolution to stand against the King for their Liberties Charter and Justice M. Paris p. 972 and many others tell you And p. 974 how the Londoners joyned with them and how many of the Lords were poysoned § 214. Braucaleo the Roman Senator having humbled the Pope pull'd down the Castles of the Tyrants and Rebels put to death the kindred of many Cardinals and died The Pope forbade the Citizens choosing another without his consent They laugh at him and choose Braucaleo's unkle M. P. p. 984. § 215. This Pope Alexander of whom M. Paris speaketh so much evil saith Binnius post obitum suavem sui memoriam reliquit dying 1260. And Plâ—tina praiseth him in whom you may see more of his life and Wars against Maufred c. § 216. Next cometh Vrban 4th Patriarch of Ierusalem of whom no great matters are recorded He ordained Corpus Christi day 217. Next cometh Clem. 4th a French Lawyer a Widdower and then Bishop His first good work was to go to Perusium in the habit of a beggar His life is praised by Platina Onuphius Binnius c. How he made a Frenchman Charles King of Scicily and Apulia and how Maufred was kill'd and conquered c. I need not trouble the Reader in reciteing § 218. CCCCXLV In his daies Canisius hath found a small Council at Vienna for reforming some things in the Clergy Bin. p. 1492. § 219. Next cometh Gregory 10th But the Seat was vacant first almost three years So long the Church of Rome was extinct if the Pope be an essential part as they would have him even of the Universal § 220. CCCCXLVI In his time a Council at Lyons called the the 14th Universal approved one by them was held in which the poor Emperour of Constantinople Michael Paleologus being in danger at his wits end came in person to flatter the Pope in hope of help There also was decreed the shutting up of the Cardinals at Elections for fear of vacancies as had happened by discord and delays The Pope interdicted the Florentines because the Guelphes refused to receive the Gibelines which quarrel still cost bloody Wars Rodulph is made Emperour
the fear of God is much more to be believed than a worldly wicked bloody unconscionable man 7. Caeteris Paribus many agreed honest impartial men are more to be believed than one or a few odd and singular persons who have no more advantage than the rest to know the truth 8. The young and unexperienced owe some eoverence to the judgment of their Seniors as more credible by age and experience than their own 9. Accordingly Children to their Parents and Scholars to their Masters and Tutors owe such belief as is answerable to their difference and the use of their learning of them By this you may see on the contrary who is not worthy of belief I. One that pretendeth Inspiration Vision Revelation and giveth the hearer no sufficient proof of it II. One that pretendeth to tell you things beyond his reach as many Philosophers do about the mysteries of Nature spiritual and corporeal Elements or mixt bodies above and below of which the Books of many are full and malignant men that take on them to tell you other mens hearts without just proof that they are hypocrites and intend that which they never did or meant ill when they said or did well and when false Historians will tell you with what unproved ill purposes or deceits persons a thousand miles off and perhaps a thousand years past whom they never knew did say and do all that is reported of them III. When there are but few reporters of things pretended to be known publickly in the world especially when more credible persons contradict them IV. When the person is deeply ingaged in a Party and carrying on all for the interest of his Party doth give you but his word or the report of his own Party for what he saith so that you may perceive that interest byasseth him to partiality V. When the Historian sheweth a malignant spirit that extenuateth or denieth all the good that was in his Adversaries and fasteneth on them as much Odium as he can without just proof and justifieth all the reproach that is used against them VI. When the Historian liveth so far off from the place and time that he is no competent reporter having all his notice but by the fame of his own Faction as uncapable as himself VII When the sober moderate men of his own party contradict him and speak well of the persons whom he reproacheth VIII When the reporter is manifestly a proud worldly wicked unconscionable man especially of a bloody hurtful disposition For as Gods threefold Influence or the Vnderstanding Will and Life is but one so the Devil doth usually vitiate together the Vnderstanding Will and Life and he that is from the beginning an Enemy and a Murderer is also a Lyar Though a wicked malignant and cruel man may yet have an opinionative faith and knowledge and preach the truth when it is for his carnal interest yet when his malice and interest tempteth him against it there is no trusting his word IX When an ignorant proud man thinketh that he must be believed meerly for the reverence and authority of his place X. When the reporter liveth in a time and place where carnal interest hath got the major Vote for falshood and it passeth commonly for truth especially where Tyranny Civil or Ecclesiastical silenceth the truth in Press Pulpit and Discourse that it dare not be spoken by which the Papists have not only made their own writings and reports incredible but by their Indices Expurgatorios and base corrupting of ancient Writers have weakned our certainty of much of the old History and Fathers XI When the reporter is a weak and silly man that hath not wit to sift out the truth XII When he is passionately rash and of hasty judgment and hath not patience to stay and suspend his judgment till he hear all XIII When it is a Novice or raw Student that hath not had time helps and experience to know what he pretends to know and yet contradicteth wiser men of more advantage and experience XIV When present experience telleth us that the party that he writeth against as unlearned or wicked are men of Eminent Learning and the fear of God and that the party that he magnifieth as such are contrary by such marks incredible History may be discerned Qu. But how can we know mens wisdome and piety and honesty and impartiality when we never knew the men Ans. Though hypocrites may much counterfeit truth and goodness its hard so to do it but the contrary which ruleth in them will break out as a sâ—ink will get through narrow passages and though truth and honesty may be much clouded they have like light a self-revealing power To give you some instances as among Physitians Hypocrates and Galen and Celsus of old and of late Montanus Crato Fernelius Platerus Hildanus and such others do speak with that self-evidencing honesty and many Paracelsians with that palpable vanity that one of them will constrain belief and the other unbelief even in them that never heard what they were So among Historians Eusebius though counted an Arrian and Socrates and Sozomen though called Novatians and Theodoret and Liberatus and some others do write so as to constrain belief of things which were within their notice and with honest impartiality Among the Papists what clear footsteps of understanding honesty and impartiality and so of truth is there in Thuanus and much in Commines Guicciardine Father Paulus Servita Hist. of Trent Council and divers others Though Doctor Iames bid us keep Crab because the later Councils are corrupt and all of them must be taken with due Antidotes yet because most of the matter is fetcht from publick Acts and Records they are more credible than most single History Acosta speaketh impartially of the West Indies and Godignus of the Abassians Matth. Paris of England and the Pope and so of some others Of Protestants some do but recite recorded testimonies or publick acts and the very writings themselves of the times they speak of when others do but tell you stories on their bare word Goldastus Ruberus Freherus and Pistorius do but give us Collections of the writings of those former Ages and nothing of their own So doth Mr. Rushworth now in his three Volumes of Collections and Mr. Fuller hath partly done so and writeth moderately Mr. Gilbert Burnet thus writeth the History of the Reformation laying not the credit on his word but on his Evidences and Cambden impartially thus writeth of Queen Elizabeth and in his Brittania Vsher hath done the like de succes Eccles. of the Waldenses and in his de Primordiis Eccl. Brit. of the Pelagians not saying but proving by Records and old Evidences what he delivereth besides the advantage of his known extraordinary learning honesty and impartiality so doth Fox for the most part in his Martyrology give you but the publick Record or proved Histories though Cope call him lyar Melancthon and Bucholtzer were men of such known sincerity as
General Council there yet both approved by Popes § 83. The Council accuse Rome § 87. Rome's jurisdiction excluded § 87. Adders to the Creed filioque anathematized Pope Martin and Hadrian condemn Photius and enrage the Greek Emperour against them § 89 91. Bishops and Lords depose Carolus Crassus he is put to beg his bread § 92. The Pope above Emperours as Heaven above Earth Kings are Servants and not above the Clergie their Masters § 93. A King ruling ill decreed to be a Tyrant Bishops and Priests lying with their own Sisters restrained but no Bishop is to be accused by a Presbyter nor judged under seventy two Witnesses nor Priests under forty two c. He that would lye with his Sister before so many deserved blame Murderers of Priests denyed Flesh Wine Coaches c. § 96 97. Formosus perjured was the first Bishop that ever was made Pope § 99. CHAP. 11. The Progress of Councils till Leo the 9th especially in the West The Bishops depose Odo and set up Charles § 1. The Virgin Mary's Smock works wonders § 2. Bloud and confusion in Italy § 3. Bishops to be obeyed before Earls and Magistrates Clergy-men must not be put to swear No Presbyter to be depos'd but by six Bishops § 5. Two wicked Popes at once Stephen Iudgeth Dismembreth and drowneth dead Formosus and re-ordaineth those ordained by him § 7 8. The Bishops in Council approve it yet now Papists detest it § 9. When Popes are Infallible § 10. Popes undo what their Predecessors did § 12 13 14 15 17. Platina's description of a Malignant Pope § 14. Popes Crown for fear and uncrown and Crown others § 15. Bishops turn and return and cry Peccavimus Reordinations forbidden § 16. Bad Princes the cause of bad Bishops § 17. Wicked Christians on whom the Pope durst not use Discipline § 17. Schismes and violence on Popes § 18 19 20. Sergius made Pope the third time keeps it by Whores and Whoredom the most wicked of men saith Baron and Bin. § 22. Formosus again executed dead § 23. Questions to the Papists of their holyness and Succession § 24. Photius last deposition and the Murders of Emperours at Constant § 26. A Whore Ruleth at Rome § 21. She maketh her Fornicator Pope Baronius and Binnius hard put to it § 62. Earl Heribert's Son not five years old made Archbishop so Rhemes § 30. Ratified by Pope John lamented by Baron that by this Example other great men did the like Johns end by a Whore § 30. None to marry within the seventh degree as incest § 31. Sergius bastard-Son under age made Pope John by a Whore and destroyed after a Monster saith Binnius § 35. None to fast privately but by the Bishops consent § 36. The King of Denmark made Christian by Henry King of Germany § 39. St. Peter made the example for many Bishopricks to one Bishop § 40. Albericus ruleth and mangleth the Pope § 41. The Bishops judge the Infant before the perjured Monk to be Bishop of Rhemes § 43. The treasons and changes in France § 44. Tryphon illiterate finely cheated of his Patriarchate Const. § 46. Councils do and undo between the two Bishops of Rhemes § 48 49 50. John XII Lawful Pope wanted all things necessary to a Pope say Baronius and Binnius § 51. Notes hereon § 52. Pope John dismembreth his Cardinals § 53. He fled § 53. The Bishops depose him and make another by Otho's means § 54. The horrid charges against Pope John sworn § 53. Baronius and Binnius against his condemnation answered § 56. Two Popes and Churches § 57. Not yet known who was the true Pope § 59. John killed in Adultery § 60. Another Antipope perjuriously chosen § 61. A Martyr § 62 64. An interruption of the Succession by Baronius and Binnius account § 65. Otho saveth them The next imprisoned and strangled § 67. Boniface VII runs to Constantinople with the Church Treasure § 69. Two more Popes § 69 70 72. Boniface murders another Pope and gets in dyeth and is drag'd about the Streets § 74. John XV durst not dwell at Rome § 75. Huâ—o Capet turneth the Bishops § 78. Popes fighting John XVII blinded mangled disgraced kill'd § 84. Seven Electors of the Emperour settled § 85. Gerbert how made Pope § 87. The King of Hungary Converts the Transilvanians § 87. Good Kings § 90. Leutherius Archbishop of Seus against Transubstantiation § 91. Two Popes fighting The King of Hungary converted by the Emperour Henry § 95. The first burning of Hereticks Manichees § 97. Henry the Emperour leaveth his Wife a Virgin § 100. Benedict IX a deboist boy-Pope put out again § 103. Gets in again A third enters at once The Cerberus hired all out by dividing the Church-rents between them do resign but the hirer as pacificator is made Pope § 103. Six that had been Popes alive at once One honest Pope that could not read made a fellow Pope to do it § 104. Gregory VI. The illiterate reconciling Pope variously described put out with the other three and a Fifth chosen § 107. Benedict gets in the third time § 107. Another gets in by Poyson and dyeth the 23 day § 110. Baron answered § 111. The Monster Bened. 9. is he that condemned Berengarius § 112. Leo 9th of the Resurrection Renounceth the Title of Vniversal Patriarchs as of the bawd of Antichrist Peter not Vniversal Apostle Bishops equal varied by City priviledges save in Africa by seniority The Romish Church usurped by no Pastors § 205. Michael Patr. of Const. Rebaptizeth Papists saith they had no true Baptism or Sacrifice § 205. A Roman Council pardon simoniacal Bishops and Priests lest the Church be utterly destitute § 206. The Popes hold a Council in France against the King ' s will A Bishops horrid Crimes and a miracle there Still Clergie and People must chuse every Bishop 207. CHAP. 12. The continuation till the Council of Constance Councils against Berengarius § 2 c. Adulterous and Symoniacal Bishops A miracle § 4 9. Hildebrand a Sub-deacon presideth in Councils and deposeth Bishops and Excommunicateth § 9 10. Bishops by Excommunication rule K. Ferdinand § 12. Milan separated from Rome 200 years § 16. Another Schism § 17 18. Hildebrands new Foundation of Popes by Cardinals Election § 22. Notes hereon § 22. A Roman Council forbids hearing a Fornicator Priest § 23. Bloody fights between two Popes Five years schism § 25. P. Alexander giveth England to William the Conqueror § 27. Councils for each Pope § 28 29. Gods word affirmed violable § 30. Hildebrands War in Rome Italian Bishops against him His hard work Obedience to the Pope forbidden by a Council at Mentz He deposeth the Emperour for seeking to diminish the Majesty of the Church and absolveth his sworn Subjects An Antipope made that sate 21 years the 23d schism The Emperour barefoot in frost three days begs pardon and promiseth obedience He is again cursed by the Pope in Council as
Against Preaching when silenced § 184. The Pope twice banished by the Romans The Emperour excommunicate and deposed fights it out The Pope dyeth § 186. A mortal sin to have two Benefices if one will maintain him § 187. The Emperour again excommunicate A merry Excommunication § 191. Rebellions § 192. Conrade and King Henry § 193. Bishop Grosthead's notable Letter to the Pope and its reception § 195 196. Obedient disobedience All Power for edification ib. The Pope calls the King of England his Slave whom he can imprison c. § 196. The Cardinals Speech to quiet the Pope A Defection foretold § 196. Grosheads death He taketh them for Hereticks that tell not great men of their sin c. The Pope Antichrist for destroying souls The Popes pardoning Letter The Pope described § 198. Miracles at Robert Grosheads death The Pope would have burnt and damned his Corps In a vision he mortally woundeth the Pope § 198 199. H. III. pawneth his Kingdom to the Pope § 200. The 13th General Council at Lyons excommnnicateth and deposeth the Emperour and absolveth his Subjects § 202. Guelphus for the Popes Gibelius for the Emperour § 203. The English Parliament demand the choice of the Lords Iustice Chancellour and Treasurer § 204. The Plot of King Henry and the Bishop of Hereford to get money by the Pope § 206. The Parliament resist it M. Paris talks too boldly of the King § 206. Buying Bishopricks Brancaleo at Rome mastereth the Pope § 208 209. Sewale Archbishop of York against the Pope doth Miracles § 212. Rome not ruled by the Pope § 214. Near three years vacancy of the Papacy § 219. Cardinal Portuensis jeast 220. The foolish Pope John sadly confuted § 224. King Peter of Arragon deposed § 226. The Popes Tenth peny denyed § 228. Two years more vacancy The Greeks enmity to Rome § 229. Pope Celestine cheated to resign and imprisoned § 233. Boniface the VIII his conflict with the King of France taken prisoner and dyeth Platina's good Counsel to all Rulers § 224. The Clergy not to be taxed by Princes § 235. The Pope setled in France by Clement V. Continueth 70 Years § 236. Above 2 years vacancy ibid. 40. Articles of the King of France against Boniface VIII Three Herisies of Petrus Joannis 1. The rational soul as such is not forma corporis humani 2. Grace habitual not infused in baptisme to Infants 3. The Spear pierced Christ before his death § 242. The Heresie of the Beguines and Beguardes for perfection § ibid. Pope Clements Decrees De fide 1. Of the form of the body the soul. 2. Infants infused Grace 3. Vsury a sin 4. To be restored The contrary to suffer as Hereticks § ibid. The falshood of some of these new Articles of Faith § 243. Magistrates excommunicated that disgrace wicked Priests § 247. Or compel them to answer to them § 248. Popes and Councils condemn each other as Hereticks § 250. The Pope claimeth the Empire by Escheate § 251. The Priest to take the name of every Parishoner that being confessed and confirmed they may communicate only by his counsel § 252. The Greek affairs § 256. A Toletane Council Decree that their Provincial Constitutions bind only ad poenam not ad culpam lest Christians Consciences be burdened § 257. After seventy years residence at Avignion forty years more there were two Popes and sometime more one at Avignion and one at Rome Discord chooseth an honest Pope but Concord an Anti-Pope Their Wars The Pope drowneth Cardinals in Sacks and makes twenty nine new ones in one day § 260. Italy still the most unpeaceable warring place of the World § 262 263. The Popes bloody way of curing Schism § 263. The Council of Pisa thinking to have but one Pope made a third § 267. Who Deposed King Ladislaus § 268. CHAP. 13. The Councils of Constance Basil c. That at Constance called by Pope John 21 alias 22 or 23 or 24 by Sigismund the Emperours means Councils above the Pope § 3. Wickliffs Articles § 6. One is that they are Traytors to Christ who give over preaching and hearing Gods word for mens Excommunications § 6 54. heynous Articles against Pope John commonly called The Devil incarnate An obstinate Heretick denying the life to come c. § 8. He ratifieth all himself and with other two Popes is deposed § 9. A decree against giving the Sacramental Cup though Christ and the Ancient Church used it § 10. Articles against John Hus as Wickliff's More as his own § 12 13. Excommunication must not make us leave off Preaching Against Hierome of Prague breaking safe Conducts § 14 15. The third Pope depos'd § 16. Decrees for frequent General Councils Popes Elections regulated A new Pope chosen § 17. The Fate of P. John and the rest § 18 19. Continued Wars at Rome against the Pope and in Italy § 23. The Council at Basil. The Bohemians case Their four Articles 1. For the full Sacâ—ament 2. For correcting publick Crimes 3. For liberty to preach Gods Word 4. Against the Clergies civil Power all eluded § 24. Bishop Augustinus de Roma's errours Phanatick Pardon of all sins confest with a contrite heart sold for money and fasting § 27. Their Catholick Verities 1. For Councils Supremacy 2. They may not be dissolved removed prorogued but consenting 3. It s Heresie to oppugn these § 28. P. Eugenins deposed as a pertinacious Heretick c. § 22. Queries hereon § 30. The immaculate Conception decreed § 31. Two Popes again § 32. Epistles of and against the Pope § 33. Four Treatises against the Bohemians four great Articles § 34 35. God only pardoneth the fault and the Pope part of Church Penances Whether silenced Preachers must cease Vnjust Sentences not regardable confessed The Council confirmed § 35 36. A Council at Briges confirmeth this § 37. The Council at Florence Two General Councils at once § 38. The Romans still fight against the Pope § 39. Constantinople lost ib. P. Pius 2. his Character and Sentences For Priests Marriage Yet for Rome's Vniversal Headship to be received as necessary to salvation § 44. P. Paul 2. a just and clement Simoniast and Tyrant Tormenteth Platina and many others Accuseth them of Heresie for praising Plato and Gentile Learning c. Against Learning § 45. P. Sixtus Wars and treachery § 46. Denying the Decrees of a General Council de fide of the immaculate conception of B. M. no Heresie § 47. P. Inoc. 8. fights to be King of Naples § 49. Pope Alexander the Sixth his ugly Character and his Son Borgia's Villanies Both drinking the poyson prepared for others The Pope dyeth of it § 50. Pius 3. § 51. P. Julius 2. Italy in blood still by him § 52. Councils against the Pope The King of France excommunicated § 53 54. The Anti-Council at Lateran against the Pisane against the French pragmat Sanction The not able Titles of the Pope § 55. Decreed that Simoniacal Election of Popes is
of the Apostolick Seat that the Kingdom was translated from Chilperic to Pepin the foresaid Historians do so expresly say that it 's a wonder with what front the innovating Hereticks dare call it in question Lastly It is here to be noted that it was by this same Pope Zachary that the nomination or postulation of Bishops for the vacant Churches in his Kingdom was granted to King Pepin Therefore if elsewhere you read that the Kings of France give Bishops to the Churches remember that it is not done by their own Right but by the Grant of the Apostolick Seat In vain therefore do the innovating Hereticks glory in this Argument who endeavor to subject the Church to Kings So far Binnius after Baronius § 12. From this Story and these words let the Reader think how to answer these Questions Quest. 1. Had not Kings need to take heed of making any one man too great if greatness and exercise of Government give him so much right to the Kingdom Qu. 2. Had not Kings need to look to their manners for their Crowns sake as well as their Souls if Lust Sensuality and Dulness forfeit their Kingdoms Qu. 3. Did not Wars and weakning of the Empire make a great change with Popes when they that were set up and banished at the Emperor's pleasure can now first depose the Emperor in the West for being against Images and Persecuting and then can translate the Crown of France Qu. 4. Was not an ambitious Pope a fit Tool for Pepin and his Confederates to work by to put a pious gloss on their Conspiracy Qu. 5. Did not the Pope rise thus by serving the turns of Conspirators and of Princes in their quarrels with one another Qu. 6. Are Subjects Judges when a King's Sins make him unworthy of the Crown Qu. 7. Yea is the Pope Judge and hath he power to depose Kings if he judge them such Sinners and unfit for Government Qu. 8. Is it a good Reason that a King is justly deposed because Good Men and Holy Bishops are the Desirers and Promoters of it Qu. 9. Would not this Reason have served Maximus against Gratian Was it not Cromwel's Plea If he had but had the Pope and People on his side you see how it would have gone Qu. 10. Is it the mark of an Innovating Heretick to say that the Church should be subject to Kings when Paul and Peter said it of all Christians so long ago Qu. 11. Is it a Note that Protestants love Rebellion because they are against Popes deposing Kings Or is there any heed to be taken of the words of impudent Revilers that dare speak before God and Man at this rate Is deposing Kings the Papists freedom from Rebellion and is our opposing it a character of Rebels Qu. 12. Is it any wonder that Bishop Burchardus desired it and that Bishop Boniface executed the Pope's command who had been translated from England by him to such dignity and had sworn Obedience and Service to him Qu. 13. Is it any wonder that the Pope made these Bishops Saints Qu. 14. I hope they were really godly Men But is it any wonder that some good Men at such a time as that did think it had been for the interest of Religion to have all Power in the Clergies hands especially being themselves Bishops that were to have so great a share How few Bishops are afraid of too much power or ever do refuse it Qu. 15. If the King of France had his Kingdom by the Pope's gift what wonder if he had the power of nominating Bishops also by his gift Qu. 16. Whether he that hath power to give hath not power to take away and be not Judge when the Cause is just Qu. 17. With what face do Papists at once make these claims and yet profess Loyalty to Kings Qu. 18. Whether it concern not Kings to understand on what terms they stand with the Pope and his Clergy that must not be subject to them but have power to depose them Qu. 19. If there be any Party among them that hath more Loyal Principles is it a sign of the concord of their Church that agreeth not in matter of so great moment Or a proof that the Pope is the infallible Judge of Controversies that will not determine so great a Point on which the Peace of Kingdoms doth depend § 13. About the same time they persuaded Rachis King of the Longobards Successor to Luitprand for the love of Religion to lay down his Crown and go into a Monastery so that Monasteries are places for the worst and the best some too bad to reign and some too good lest they should over-master the Clergy § 14. It may be you will think that this Pope Zachary and his sworn Vassal St. Boniface were some very profound Divines that could by their wisdom and piety thus master Kingdoms Doubtless they were zealous Adversaries to Heresies except their own and Successors of the Hereticating and Damning Fathers For Epist. 10. Bin. p. 206 207 208. Zachary writeth to Boniface to expel Virgilius from the Church and Priesthood for holding Antipodes viz. that Sun-shine and Moon-light and Men are under the Earth as well as here which we call over it The words are De perversa autem iniqua doctrina quae contra Dominum Animamsuam locutus est si clarificatum fuerit ita eum confiteri quod alius mundus alii homines sub terra sint seu Sol Luna hunc habito Concilio ab Ecclesia pelle Sacerdotii honore privatum That is But as to the perverse and unjust Doctrine which he hath spoken against the Lord and his own Soul if it be made clear that he so confesseth that under the Earth there is another world and other Men and Sun and Moon call a Council and depriving him of the honour of Priesthood drive him out of the Church That by another world is meant Antipodes or the other side of the Earth inhabited is doubtless § 15. Qu. 1. Did God make Popes to be the Governors of the Antipodes for so many hundred years before they knew that there was any Antipodes And when they excommunicated and silenced those that affirmed it Qu. 2. Were these Popes and Bishops Men of such wisdom as were fit to hereticate Dissenters as they did Qu. 3. Do we not see here what some Councils were and did in those times Qu. 4. Do we not see what Heresie signified at Rome and how little heed there was to be taken of their outcry against some Heresies Qu. 5. Whether was all the World or all the West bound to avoid Communion after with Virgilius Qu. 6. Do we not see here of what Infallibility the Pope is in judging of matters of Faith and how happy the World is to have such a Judge and of what credit his Heretications and Excommunications are Qu. 7. Do we not see how Religion hath been depraved and dishonoured by the Pope and his Clergy calling
Emperor Michael to assume the Government and not leave the Empire any longer to his Mother and Sisters One Gebo then pretending to be the Son of Queen Theodora and claiming the Crown and many following him Ignatius is accused as being then on Gebo's side The Emperor commandeth Ignatius to shear his Mother and Sisters and put them into a Monastery He refuseth The Emperor is angry and suspecting him causeth it to be done by others and sendeth Ignatius to the Island Terebinth and killeth Gebo Within three dayes some of the Bishops who had subscribed and sworn to Ignatius even that they would sooner deny the supream Majesty of the Trinity than without a publick damnation they would suffer their Pastor to be deposed became agents to draw him to renounce his Place c. He refusing Photius is made one day a Monk the next day a Lector the next a Subdeacon the next a Deacon the next a Presbyter and on Christs birth-day is made Patriarch a great and noble Courtier the Emperors Secretary or privy Councellor famous for skill in things politick and civil so flourishing in the skill of Grammar Poetry Oratory Philosophy Physick and the study of almost all Liberal Arts and Sciences as that he was absolutely in them the Prince of his age yea and might contend with the ancients For he had a confluence of natural aptitude and force of felicity riches by which he got a library of all sorts of books and being desirous of Glory and Praise spent whole nights in sleepless Studies and after studied divinity and Ecclestical Volumes Gregorius Bishop of Syracuse a censured Bishop ordained him Ignatius is cruelly used and it s laid on Photius He sendeth some Bishops to Rome and by them saith that Ignatius gave up his Place It 's said that some held Ignatius's hand and by force wrote his mark and others wrote the rest but what 's the truth is hard to know A General Council is called The Emperor and all his Princes great ones and almost all the City met at Photiuâ—'s possession Baanes and some of the baser of the Romans are sent to summon Ignatius to the Council Bin. p. 867. He asketh them in what Garbs he shall come They take time and the next day say Rhodoaldus and Zacharias Legates of Old Rome by us summon thee without delay to appear at the holy Oecumenical Council in what habit thou wilt according to thy own Conscience He goeth in Patriarchs habit The Emperor commands him in the habit of a Monk No less than seventy two witnesses are brought into the Synod against him Nobles and Vulgar Nicâ—tas saith perjured of whom Leo and Theodotacius two Noble men were chief and some Anabaptists that is such as baptized men again though not against Infant Baptism These swore that Ignatius not justly ordained had twelve years ago usurped the place And alas there wanted not a Canon which would depose a great part of the Bishops of the world viz. that called the 30th Apost and oft renewed If any Bishop using the secular power do by them obtain a Church let him be deposed They left out And those that Communicate with him For which Nicetas accuseth the Bishops as falsly saving themselves And alas must all the ministers in England be deposed that communicate with any Bishop that gets a Church by the secular power What a separation than must here be made And would not this Canon depose Photius also The Popes Legates Bishops Rhodoceldus and Zacharias aliique nefarii homines saith Nicetas cryed down Ignatius as Vnworthy then they beat and odiously abuse the good old man And then cometh the foresaid forced subscribed confession or forged After this it s said that they sent men to kill him but by old base cloaths and two baskets on his back he past away unknown begging his bread by the way Nicetas saith that an Earthquake shook the City fourty dayes together and frightned them to send abroad and proclaim security to Ignatius who thereupon surrendered himself Bardas convinced sendeth him safe to his own Monastery and the Earthquake ceased and the Bulgarians moved by famine and the Emperor's gifts laid down armes and were baptized Christians Pope Nicholas excommunicateth Photius and the Emperor and all the Court. Bin. p. 868. A fire befals the Church of Sophia The young Emperor groweth so drunken and prophane that he gets a pack of wicked ungodly men and maketh them in mockery or play his Bishops and consecrateth a Church for them and maketh one Theophilus a jester their Patriarch to turn Religion into a scorn and then saith Theophilus is my Patriarch Photius is Caesars and Ignatius is the Christians And thus they by prophane witt derided the Bishops and Religion itself to which alas the Bishops ambition and odious strife did tend Photius was silent at all this Another Earthquake frightned them again the terriblest for a day and a night that had been there known Upon this one Basilius a Bishop of Thesalonica went boldly to the Emperor and opened the sin of his prophaneness disswading him from that wickedness that provoked God The Emperor enraged struk out his Teeth and caused him to be so scourged that he was like to dye Photius cared for none of this set his mind on the securing his seat and oppressing Ignatius magnifying all that tooke his part and encouraging false Stories and Calumnies against the best that were against him One of the betrayers and accusers of Ignatius was one of his Disciples and of his own name made Arch-Bishop of Hierapolis and then lost his Conscience and Fidelity Bin. p. 869. It was but for presuming to Consecrate an Altar cast down by the Russians and new built which was taken after his deposition for a breach of the Law and Canons and two Arch-Bishops ready at all times were sent to pull down the Altar as Nonconformable and to carry the stones to the Sea and wash them and then to set them up again O that they would have washt their hearts from Pride and Worldly Ambition Oh saith Nicetas What stupidity what pravity of a perverse mind was this What excess of Envy What study of ambitious Dishonesty Did thy daily meditation and night-watches and innumerable Books teach thee this Did thy frequent reading and disputation and striving for the praise of learning teach it thee Did the knowledge of the Old Testament and the New the sayings of the Wise the Decrees of the Holy Fathers teach thee to persecute a poor man and to vex and kill one of a broken heart and spirit Did not thy tyranical ejection of him satiate the implacable fury of thy mind c Thus Nicetas As much as to say Much learning and great power and places are too often separated from Honesty Charity and Conscience Here he mentioneth a terrible Dream of Bardas and the murder of him by Basilius's order and the Emperor's consent and how basely Photius cryed him down when he was dead
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
were no Popes 4. And if it be but necessary for the future all that after were otherwise chosen were no Popes 5. If several wayes and parties or powers making Popes may all make them true Popes then who knoweth which and how many of those there are and which is the true Pope if ten were made at once ten several wayes 6. This confesseth that Christ hath appointed no way for choosing Popes nor given any sort of men power to choose them else what need Pope Nicholas begin it now anew And if so it seemeth that Christ never instituted the Papacy For can we suppose him so Laxe a Legislator as to say a Pope shall be made and never tell us who shall have power to do it Then England may choose one and France another and Spain another c. the Bishops one the Priests another the Prince another and the Citizens another But if Christ have setled a Pope-making power in any it is either the same as Pope Nicholas did in Cardinal Bishops or not If not the Pope changeth Christ's institution If yea then all those were no Popes that were otherwise chosen and so where is the Roman Church and its succession 7. What power hath Pope Nicholas to bind his successors Have not they as much power as he and so to undo it all again If the King should decree that his Kingdom hereafter shall not be hereditary but elective and that the Bishops should be the choosers of the King were this obligatory against the right of his heirs 8. By this decree if the Laity and Clerks consent not after he is still no Pope § 23. In this same Council saith Bin. ibid. it was decreed that no one hear the Mass of a Presbyter whom he knoweth undoubtedly to have a Concubine or Subintroduced Woman Quaer Whether they that make him a Schismatick that goeth from a scandalous wicked malignant or utterly insufficient Priest and dare not commit the care of his soul to such a one be not looser than Pope Nicholas and this Roman Council was § 24. A Council at Malphia and another at Paris for Crowning King Philip and one at Iacca in Spain of small moment § 25. An. 1061. Was the 22d Schism or two Popes of Rome for five years continuance The Cardinal Bishops for fear of the Emperor chose one that was great with him Anselm Bishop of Luca but the Italian Princes perswaded the Emperor that it was a wrong to them and him and chose Cadolus Palavicinus Bishop of Parma called Honorius the 2d The Sword was to determinate who was the true Pope Cadolus came with an Army to Rome the Romans came out against him and in the Fields called Nero's a great battle saith Platina was fought in which many of both sides fâ—ll but Cadolus was driven away He shortly returned with a great Army being called by a part of the Romans that were men of pleasure and by force seized on the Suburbs and St. Peter's Church But the Souldiers of Gotifred put his Souldiers to flight and he himself narrowly scaped the Prefect of Rome's Son with him breaking through the Romans got possession of the Tower where they besieged him till they forced him to yield and buy his liberty of the besiegers for 300 pound of Silver Then the Bishop of Colen having the education of the young Emperor came to Rome to rebuke Alexander as an Usurper but by Hildebrand was so overcome that the choice belonged not to the Emperor that he called a Council which confirmed Alexander and deposed Honorius The Emperor consented on condition that Cadolus be pardoned and Gibert his promoter Chancellor of Parma made Arch-Bishop of Ravenna which the Pope consented to and did Thus then were Popes and Bishops made Q. How shall we be sure for Cadolus's five years who was the Pope § 26. A woman called Mathildis a Countess was then the great Patroness of the Papacy who furnished military Hildebrand that did all with Souldiers to conquer several Great Men that opposed them and to set up Alexander and defend him § 27. This Pope Alexander is said by Bin. and Baron to judge King Harold of England an Usurper to dispose of the Crown to William of Normandy and declare him lawful Successor and send him a Banner that he might fight for it and possess it Thus did this Prelate give Crowns and Kingdoms as the supreme judge made by himself He after required Rent Peter-Pence from England of William § 28. He made some constitutions for his old Church at Milan Three thing are the summe of them and many other Councils 1. Against Simonie 2. Against the Clergies fornication no Canons cured them of either of these 3. That no Lay-Man judge any Clerk for his crimes only if Priests live in fornication he alloweth Lay-Men to tell the Arch-Bishops and if they will do nothing then to withhold their duties and benefits till they amend But this Binnius noteth was but a temporary extraordinary concession for the hatred that this Pope had to fornicating Clergy-Men But if they did but now and then lie with a woman by chance and did not obstinately still keep them they must not so trouble them § 29. CCCXLV. The foresaid Cadolus or Honorius 2d was setled Pope by a Council at Basil An. 1061. where say some many Simoniacal incontinent wicked Bishops decreed that no Pope should be made but out of Italy which they called Paradise that is Lombardy § 30. CCCXLVI A Council at Osborium An. 1062. contrarily condemned him and set up Alexander Though before Platina saith that Cisalpini omnes all on the Romans side of the Alpes obeyed Honorius except Mathildis a good woman § 31. Here Binnius thought a Dialogue of Pet. Damian worthy to be inserted to prove that Princes may not make Bishops of Rome In which he would prove that the Decrees that gave the Emperor such power may be changed because God doth not alwaies perform his own word for want of mans duty And he saith that some men have been sinners and perished for obeying Gods own Law and some rewarded for breaking it which he proveth by a profane quibble 1. In Iudas as if Christs words what thou dost do quickly had been a command to do the thing 2. In the Rechabites that drank not Wine when Ieremy bade them As if Gods Command to Ieremy to try them had been his Command to them to do it A Council was at Arragon in Spain for we know not what § 32. CCCXLVII An. 1063. Peter Bishop of Florence being accused of Heresie and Simony and deposed a Council at Rome renewed Pope Nicolas 2d's Canons not to hear Masse of a Priest that liveth with a Concubine or introduced woman To excommunicate Simoniacks c. § 33. CCCXLVII In a Council at Mantua to quiet some that yet took Cadolus's part and accused Pope Alexander of Simony Alexander is owned and Cadolus not appearing cast out who after tryed it
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
and the Pope dieth Onuphrius further openeth the Reasons and Rules of the Cardinals being shut up viz. Clem. the 4th being dead the Cardinals as is aforesaid were all so desirous to be Popes themselves that they were two years and nine months contending and could not possibly agree Philip King of France and Charles King of Sicily came themselves to Rome to intreat them but departed without success Yet they invoked the Holy Ghost every day to help them At last the Cardinal Bishop Ioh. Portuensis deridingly prayed them to uncover the houses for the Holy Ghost could not come in through so many covered roofs At last by Bonaventures intreaty they chose Theoâ—ald a Viseount and Archdeacon that was with our Prince Edward going to fight in Palestine And the â—aid Cardinal Portuens made these Verses on their choice anno 1271. Papatus munus tulit Archidiaconus Vnus Quem Patrem patrum fecit discordia fratrum § 221. Innocent the 5th cometh next the first after the shutting up of the Conclave He sought to end the Italian Wars but died before six moneths reign § 222. CCCCXLVII A Council at Salâ—zburge is published by Conisius as in Greg. the 10ths days but it seemeth liker to be after which condemned Pluralities nonresidence of Priests and their being in Taverns or Alehouses and playing at Dice and their wearing long Hair and sine Cloaths and restrained supernumerary begging Schollars and ordered that the Bishop should imprison such as prophaned holy things after they were excommunicated or suspended It seemeth that Bishops had by this time got coercive power but they used it not to bring the unworthy to the Sacrament but to keep the unworthy from it and from other profanations § 223. Next Ottobonus that was Pope Innocent the 4ths Nephew and Legate of England at the Barons Wars is chosen Pope but died before his Consecration within forty dayes but got the name of Hadrian the 5th § 224. Next cometh Pope Iohn the 22th as Platina the 19th as Binius and the 21st as most the 20th by Onuphrius 1276. He was a Physitian made Bishop inverecundi socordis ingenii saith Platina so foolish that he boasted how long he should live when presently the house fell on his head and he died by it in seven days after Suffridus saith Binius saith that he was writing an heretical perverse book when the room fell and cryed out after O what is become of my book Who will finish it which saith Binius if true sheweth the wonderful Providence of God for his Church But had this Pope been infallible had he been in a Council purposed to revoke the decree for shutting up the Cardinals in Conclave and this man finished the revocation and till the dayes of Celestine 5th that renewed it it stood revoked saith Onuphrius § 225. Next came Nicholas 3d. after six months contention and vacancy King Charles as Senator presiding and pleading for a French Pope He is commended much save that he set up all his own Kindred too much § 226. After three years reign eight months and fifteen dayes of Nicholas came Mâ—rtin 2d vulgo 4th saith Binius and Onuphrius a Frenchman In his time the Greek Emperour Paleologus not keeping his promise to the Pope joyned with Peter King of Arragon who claimed Sicily as his Wives inheritance and though the former Pope had set him on this was against him restoring King Charles to be Senator at Rome and siding with him because he was a Frenchman But the fatal Sicilian Vespers killed all the French and Peter overcame Charles and took his Son and Charles and the Pope shortly died of Fevers But before he died the Pope played the old Game excommunicating and cursing King Peter and gave his Kingdom for a prey to any one that would get it and absolved all his Subject from their Oath of Allegiance and signed Croisado's Soldiers under the sign of the Cross to fight against him § 227. Honorius the 4th cometh next his Brother being Senator at Rome He confirmed the same Anathema against Peter King of Arragon who shortly after died of a wound received in fight by the French The Pope dieth and the seat is void ten moneths 1287. after two years Reign § 228. Anno 1287. CCCCXLVIII A Council was held at Herbipolis by the Popes Legate endeavouring to have got the tenth penny of the Estates of the Clergy for the Pope and of the Laity for the Emperour by their joynt consent But Siphridus Arch-Bishop of Colen and Henry Arch-Bishop of Trevers stoutly opposing frustrated both their Conciliary designs § 229. Anno 1288 came P. Nicolas 4th a Religious Man General of the Minors when he had four years together laboured in vain to stay the blood in Italy between the Guelphes and Giâ—ellins and to reconcile the French and English and to relieve the Christians in Palestine he died And the Cardinals though for liberty they went to Perusium kept the Church headless two years and three months by contention though Princes in vain endeavoured to perswade them to agreement Are these no intercessions of the Succession In this time died Mich. Paleologus Emperour of Constantinople and the Clergy and Monks would not suffer him to be buried in holy ground because in the Council at Lyons he had consented to the Church of Rome Platina Was this a true Reconciliation of the â—reek Church § 230. Anno 1286. CCCCXLIX A Council at Râ—vâ—nna in Honorius time made some Canons for Reformation § 231. Anno 1291. CCCCL A Council at Sâ—ltsâ—urg for reconciling some Christians § 232. Anno 1292. CCCCLI The Arch-bishop of Mentz held a Council at Aschaffenburge which they say did many good things It is not known what § 233. Anno 1294. After two years and four months vacancy Caelestine the 5th a Religious man of solitary life is chosen Pope If ever there was a good Pope it is likely this was one But he was no sooner setled by common applause but the Cardinals especially Bened. Cajetaenus a subtile man perswaded him that his simplicity and unskilfulness would undo the Church and urged him to resign King Charles and the people disswade him and are only for him But the Cardinals prevailed and he resigned And going to his solicitude again the Cardinal Ben. Cajetaue that got him to resign sent him Prisoner to the Castle of Fumo where at best he died of grief Some write that Cardinal Cajetane got a way to speak through a Pipe put into the Wall as if it were some Angel to charge him to resign He was too good to be a Pope § 234. The deceiver that got him out succeeded him called Boniface the 8th by Bin. 7th 1294. This is he of whom it is said Intravit ut vulpes regnavit ut Leo exivit ut Canis He raised Wars to prosecute some Cardinals and the Gibelines While he lived wickedly he set up a Jubilee proclaiming Pardon of all sins to them that would visit
Especially they are large in imposing penalties on those that publickly keep Concubines in their houses and have not the modesty to fornicate more secretly If they put not away their Concubines in two Moneths they must lose the third part of their tythes and after other two months another third part and at last the other third part and after be uncapable of preferment c. These are gentler penalties than a differing opinion is punished with under the name of a heresie § 249. CCCCLXII Anno 1324. A Council at Toletane to the like purposes § 250. CCCCLXIII The two Popes called two Councils against each other as Hereticks were neither in the right Iohn in a Council at Avignion proved Nicolas the 5th a heretick for holding that Christ possessed nothing as Proprietor Nicolas called a Council in Italy which condemned Iohn as a heretick for holding the contrary Thus the hereticators were hereticated § 251. The French now got the Power of the Papacy and another French man was chosen Pope Anno 1334. called Benedict 11. alias 12th He renewed the excommunication and deposition of the Emperor Ludov. and claimed the Empire to himself concluding that being vacant it fell to the Church see to whom Kingdomes escheat whereby he set all Italy in Wars in all the Cities giving them to the Rulers as the Popes Leiutenants and perswading the Romans also to depose the Senatorean power as of the King and to exercise it themselves under the Church He lived above seven years Pope This Pope contrary to his Predecessor defined that souls sufficiently purged enjoy the clear vision of God before the resurrection § 252. CCCCLXIV Anno 1339. A Toletane Council decreed among other things that every Rector of a Church and their Vicars under pain of excommunication do every year write the names of all their Parishioners that come to years of discretion and consign confirm all that are confessed and excite them to come to the Sacrament But if they have not received it let them abstain unless it be by the Counsel of their own Priest And those that confesse not after a year to expel from the Church and deny them ecclesiastical burial § 253. Anno 1342. Another Frenchman Bishop of Roven is made Pope at Avignion Clem. 6. All Italy and Naples was put into the flames of Wars He forced the Germanes to set up another against the Emperor Lodov. Bavarus which was Charles Son of Iohn the 11. of Bohemia Charles sends bound to the Pope a new Senator Nicolas Rentii that ruled all at Rome He made a new Jubilee he laboured in vain to reconcile King Edward of England to the French the English conquering their Navies and taking Calis c. The Colenses and Trevinuses having contributed money as to a Turkish expedition that Pope liberally rewarded them by granting them licence to eat Eggs and Milk-meats on any fasting dayes out of Lent § 254. CCCCLXV Anno 1347. A Toletane Council against Simony c. § 255. Anno 1352. Innoc. the 6th is made Pope of Avignion All Italy was still kept in blood One Barnacellus Lorded it as Ruler at Rome The Pope craftily lets Nicolas Gencii out of Prison to set up against him Nicolas gets the better and killeth him but domincering too much is next kill'd himself 1347. The new Emperor Charles is Crowned in Italy The Romans put the power into seven Citizens called Reformers of the common wealth The Pope sets Hugo King of Cyrus against the Reformers and bids him pull them down But trouble came near him Our King Edward conqerâ—d the French and took the King and his Son Philip Prisoners nobly releasing the Prisoners upon promise that they would fight against him no more which they presently brake The Pope dieth § 256. Having long said nothing of the Greek affairs I here only briefly say that the utter confusion of their imperial Successions by murders and Usurpations and the continued confusions of their Church affairs ever since the divisions of the Orthodox Nestorians Entychians Monothelites c maketh it both a hard and unpleasant task to give any exact account of their Bishops Synods and manifold contentions which furthered the ruine of the Empire Their divisions gave the Latines opportunity to take Constantinople 1204. which they kept 58 years and then lost it Baldwin was the first Latine Emperour whom the Bulgarians conquered and took Prisoner Anno 1205. and kept sixteen months and then put him to death Henry his brother succeeded him 1206 and died 1216. Peter succeedeth him that married his sister or daughter and is quickly slain by Theodorus Lascaris Robert succeedeth his Father Peter 1261. Theodore Lascaris was Emperor chosen by the Greeks and kept Court at Nice He defâ—ated the Turks and slew their Sultan and died 1222. Iohn Ducas his Son in Law succeedeth him and 1255. his Son Theodore Lascaris succeedeth him and died 1259. leaving a Son Iohn of six years old Michael Paleologus putting out Iohns eyes at ten years old usurpeth the Empire and by a stratagem of Alexius Caesar with 800 men taketh Constantinople and feigned a reconciliation with Rome and died 1282 and for his seeming reconciliation with Rome his Son Andronicus and the Clergy denied him Christian burial Andronicus succeeded His Son Michael dying his Grandson Andronicus deposeth and banisheth him and taketh the Throne he reigned 8 years and died 1341. He committed his two Sons to Ioh. Cautacuzenus The Eldest Son Iohn reigned 27 years and Manuel his brother succeeded him 1384. and his Son Iohn succeeded him 1419. Constantine the 8th began 1445 and Anno 1453 May 29th the Turks took Constantinople and set up their Empire § 257. Anno 1355. Under Innocent the 6th was another Toletane Council short and sweet worth the noting by authority of Blastus Arch-Bishop of Toletan Viz. Lest faithful Christians should be burdened with the weight of sin or faultiness by transgressing provincial Constitutions when Divine piety hath mercifully put them under an easie yoke and light burden we ordain the holy Council approving it that the Provincial constitutions of our Predecessors and that shall be made hereafter unless it be otherwise expresly ordained in such as shall be made shall oblige the trangressours only to the penalty of them but not ad culpam to faultiness or sin It s worth the Inquiry how far all other Canons and humane penal Lawes are thus to be expounded § 258. Anno 1362. Another French man is made Pope called Vrban the 5th He sent Aegidius to fight for him in Italy still broil'd in Wars and died § 259. Anno 1370. Petrus Bellfortis that was made Cardinal before he was 17 years old is made Pope of Avignion and called Greg. the 11th So far was all the world from obeying the Pope that Italy still fought against him Thither he sends an Army bloodshed and misery overspreadeth the Country The Pope at last saw that his absence gave his Enimies advantage and not daring to