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

§. 78. CCCXXI. Hugo Capet having now got the Crown of France, and desirous to destroy all the Carolines line, upon the aforesaid suspicion got a Synod at Rhemes, to cast out Arnulphus a Bastard of that Lin•; saying, a Bastard must not be a Bishop: One Bishop refused; The rest for fear of that King consented, and cast him out; (so constant were the French Bishops.)

§. 78. CCCXXI. Hugo Capet having now got the Crown of France, and desirous to destroy all the Carolines line, upon the aforesaid suspition got a Synod at Rhemes, to cast out Arnulphus a Bastard of that Lin•; saying, a Bastard must not be a Bishop: One Bishop refused; The rest for fear of that King consented, and cast him out; (so constant were the French Bishops.)

§. 79. CCCXXII. Six Bishops, and Nine Presbyters, and Four Deacons made a Council at Rome, to Canonize Udalric Bishop of Augusta, Anno 993. upon the reports of his Holiness and Miracles.

§. 79. CCCXXII. Six Bishops, and Nine Presbyters, and Four Deacons made a Council at Rome, to Canonize Vdalric Bishop of Augusta, Anno 993. upon the reports of his Holiness and Miracles.

Here let me at once tell the Reader, that he hath no cause to think the most of these Canonizations wholly causeless. But that while Pope and Patriarchs, confounded all by wickedness and contentious pride; God had many faithful Bishops and Presbyters that lived holily in quieter and privater kind of Life; And the Popes that would not endure themselves to live a Godly life, thought it their honour to have such in the Church that did, and to magnify them when dead, and past contradicting them. Just like the Pharisees,