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

§ 93. Next Peter Bishop of Abbane is made Pope and called Sergius 4th (The Canons are here again violated) Now saith Bin. was a great prodigy, in a Church at Rome rose a spring of oil, of which a vessel full was sent to King Henry, no doubt to call him to take the Empire.]

§ 93. Next Peter Bishop of Abbane is made Pope and called Sergius 4th (The Canons are here again violated) Now saith Bin. was a great prodigie, in a Church at Rome rose a spring of oyl, of which a vessel full was sent to King Henry, no doubt to call him to take the Empire.]

§ 94. CCCXXVI. An. 1011. A Council at Bamberg endeavoured to end some quarrels among Bishops that strove to get more, and accused one another unjustly to the Pope; for which the King reproved some of them.

§ 94. CCCXXVI. An. 1011. A Council at Bamberge endeavoured to end some quarrels among Bishops that strove to get more, and accused one another unjustly to the Pope; for which the King reproved some of them.

§ 95. An. 1012. Two Popes were chosen and set up; which is the 19th. schism or double-head of the Roman Church. The Emperor's party chose Benedict the 8th. The City Party chose Gregory. The Citizens were the stronger at present (and so long their's was the true Pope.) The Emperor proved strongest at last, and therefore Benedict became the true Pope (for Hobbes his Law ruled among them,) [that Right is nothing but Power to get and keep] Gregory had no power to keep his Place: Ergo he had no right to it: Benedict fled to Germany, and the good Emperor Henry came to Rome with an Army, and made Gregory fly, and set up Benedict. Here Henry first instituted the Golden Globe and Cross as fit for an Emperor's hand and aspect.¹