Church-history of the government of bishops and their councils abbreviated including the chief part…

If he had said that Kings govern Churches, but not as Churches, but as parts of the Kingdom, he had said falsely: For they govern them as Churches, though not by the same sort of Government as the Pastors do; as they govern not Hospitals by the same sort of Government, as the Physicians.

If he had said that Kings govern Churches, but not as Churches, but as parts of the Kingdom, he had said falsly: For they govern them as Churches, though not by the same sort of Government as the Pastors do; as they govern not Hospitals by the same sort of Government, as the Physicians.

§ 129. In Eugenius's Epistle it is honestly and truly said, that [If there had never been a painted or a forged Image, neither Faith, Hope nor Love, by which Men come to the Eternal Kingdom, would have perished.] I am of Bellarmine's mind now, that this was none of the Pope's Epistle, (but the honest Emperor's, and his Clergy Councils:) He thought it too bad for a Pope, and I think it too good for a Pope. He thinks that the Pope must be mad, if he would have so condemned his Predecessor Adrian's Acts, as this Epistle doth; and I doubt he was not so honest as to do it. But did not Bellarmine know how much more sharp and virulent Accusations Popes have laid on one another?

§ 130. CCXLVI. So powerful was Ludovicus Pius's Attempts to reform the Clergy, that it drove Pope Eugenius the 2d for shame to call a Council at Rome, (not from the Antipodes, but) of 63 Bishops, (An. 826.) who repeated some old Canons, and, among other things, forbade such Feasts and Plays as our Wakes ar• on any Holy-days to be used.

§ 130. CCXLVI. So powerful was Ludovicus Pius's Attempts to reform the Clergy, that it drove Pope Eugenius the 2d for shame to call a Council at Rome, (not from the Antipodes, but) of 63 Bishops, (An. 826.) who repeated some old Canons, and, among other things, forbad such Feasts and Plays as our Wakes ar on any Holy-days to be used.