But we remembering the Commands of God, and our Ministry, and his Benefits, thought him worthy, that by the leave of the said Prince Lotharius, we should send a Message to him by the Authority of this Sacred Assembly, to admonish him of his Guilts, that he might take sure advice for his safety (or salvation.) That he might in his extremity study with all his might, that being deprived of his earthly Power, according to God's Council, and the Churches Authority, he might not also lose his Soul. To the counsels of which Messengers, and their most wholesome warnings he willingly consented, he took time, and set a day in which he would give an answer to their wholesome Admonitionsf.
And when the day was at hand, the same Holy Assembly unanimously went to the venerable Man, and took care to admonish him of all that he had offended God in, and scandalized the Church, and troubled the People committed to him, and to bring all to his remembrance. And he willingly embracing their wholesome Admonition, and their worthy and congruous Aggravations, promised in all things to acquiesce in their wholesome counsel, and to undergo ⟨p. 256⟩their remedying judgment(g). And being glad of so wholesome an Admonition(h), strait we entreated his beloved Son, Lotharius Augustus, to be speedily present, that without delay, with his Nobles he might come, that there might be a mutual reconciliation between them according to Christian Doctrine, that if there were any blemishes or discords in their hearts, a pure and humble begging of Pardon(i) might expiate them, and thereupon before all the multitude, he might receive the judgment of the Priesthood as Penitents do, which soon after was done.
Therefore the Lord Ludovicus coming into the Church of Holy Mary, God's Mother, where rest the Bodies of Saints, that is, of Medard, a Confessor of Christ and Bishop, and of Sebastian a most excellent Martyr (the Priests, Deacons, and no small multitude of the Clerks standing by, and his Son the foresaid Lotharius being present with his Nobles, and the generality of all the People, even as many as the Church could hold) and being prostrate on the earth upon Hair-cloth(k) before the Holy Altar, be confessed before all, that he too unworthily used the Ministry committed to him, and in it many ways offended God, and scandalized the Church of Christ, and many ways troubled the People by his negligence:
But we remembring the Commands of God, and our Ministry, and his Benefits, thought him worthy, that by the leave of the said Prince Lotharius, we should send a Message to him by the Authority of this Sacred Assembly, to admonish him of his Guilts, that he might take sure advice for his safety (or salvation.) That he might in his extremity study with all his might, that being deprived of his earthly Power, according to God's Council, and the Churches Authority, he might not also lose his Soul. To the counsels of which Messengers, and their most wholsom warnings he willingly consented, he took time, and set a day in which he would give an answer to their wholsom Admonitionsf.
And when the day was at hand, the same Holy Assembly unanimously went to the venerable Man, and took care to admonish him of all that he had offended God in, and scandalized the Church, and troubled the People committed to him, and to bring all to his remembrance. And he willingly embracing their wholsom Admonition, and their worthy and congruous Aggravations, promised in all things to acquiesce in their wholsom counsel, and to undergo ⟨p. 256⟩their remedying judgment(g). And being glad of so wholsom an Admonition(h), strait we intreated his beloved Son, Lotharius Augustus, to be speedily present, that without delay, with his Nobles he might come, that there might be a mutual reconciliation between them according to Christian Doctrine, that if there were any blemishes or discords in their hearts, a pure and humble begging of Pardon(i) might expiate them, and thereupon before all the multitude, he might receive the judgment of the Priesthood as Penitents do, which soon after was done.
Therefore the Lord Ludovicus coming into the Church of Holy Mary, God's Mother, where rest the Bodies of Saints, that is, of Medard, a Confessor of Christ and Bishop, and of Sebastian a most excellent Martyr (the Priests, Deacons, and no small multitude of the Clerks standing by, and his Son the foresaid Lotharius being present with his Nobles, and the generality of all the People, even as many as the Church could hold) and being prostrate on the earth upon Hair-cloth(k) before the Holy Altar, be confessed before all, that he too unworthily used the Ministry committed to him, and in it many wayes offended God, and scandalized the Church of Christ, and many ways troubled the People by his negligence:
- fO humble Prince•• O traitorous Prelates!O humble Prince•• O trayterous Prelates!
- (g)Its pity but he had better Judges
- (h)Its like he looked for better measures.Its like he lookt for better measures.
- (i)Of a traitorous Son and Subjects.Of a trayterous Son and Subjects.
- (k)Was this keeping the fifth Commandment, and Honouring the King? O wicked Son, and wicked Prelates!Was this keeping the fifth Commandement, and Honouring the King? O wicked Son, and wicked Prelates!
