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

§ 113. Rome was now so wise as to be conscious a little of their badness and unfitness to choose themselves a Pope, and therefore sent to the Emperor Henry to choose them one. He chose them Bruno a good Bishop of Tullum; who in his way, at the Abby of Cluny, met with Hildebrand that went from Rome thither, who told him that the Emperor being a Lay-man had no power to make or choose a Pope^(*) but the ⟨p. 343⟩Clergy and people; but if he would follow his advise, he should in a better way attain his end: so Hildebrand went with him and persuaded him to put off his purple, and to go in a common habit, and confess that he is not their Bishop till they choose him, and that he taketh not the seat as given by the Emperor but by them; whereby he won the Romans hearts, and they readily chose him. And he being called Leo the 9th, after so many monsters, went for a very excellent Pope. But yet he commanded an army himself against the Normans, and proved no good or happy Captain, his Army being wholly routed, and himself taken Prisoner: whom the Normans in reverence released and returned safe. Pet. Damianus and others lament his Soldiery as his great sin, but Baron. and Bin. excuse him, and say, all the world now alloweth it: You see what arguments serve at Rome: where it was but lately that the first article that a Roman Council before Otho Mag. brought in against Pope John was that he went sometimes in Arms: And to be formerly a Bishop was heretofore an incapacity by the Canons: Yet Rome covereth her innovations by pretending antiquity, and calling others Novatores.

§ 113. Rome was now so wise as to be conscious a little of their badness and unfitness to choose themselves a Pope, and therefore sent to the Emperor Henry to choose them one. He chose them Bruno a good Bishop of Tullum; who in his way, at the Abby of Cluny, met with Hildebrand that went from Rome thither, who told him that the Emperor being a Lay-man had no power to make or choose a Pope^(*) but the ⟨p. 343⟩Clergy and people; but if he would follow his advise, he should in a better way attain his end: so Hildebrand went with him and perswaded him to put off his purple, and to go in a common habit, and confess that he is not their Bishop till they choose him, and that he taketh not the seat as given by the Emperor but by them; whereby he won the Romans hearts, and they readily chose him. And he being called Leo the 9th, after so many monsters, went for a very excellent Pope. But yet he commanded an army himself against the Normans, and proved no good or happy Captain, his Army being wholly routed, and himself taken Prisoner: whom the Normans in reverence released and returned safe. Pet. Damianus and others lament his Souldiery as his great sin, but Baron. and Bin. excuse him, and say, all the world now alloweth it: You see what arguments serve at Rome: where it was but lately that the first article that a Roman Council before Otho Mag. brought in against Pope Iohn was that he went sometimes in Arms: And to be formerly a Bishop was heretofore an incapacity by the Canons: Yet Rome covereth her innovations by pretending antiquity, and calling others Novatores.