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

I give you the words of Platina all along. And now whether Hildebrand or Henry was the better man in common morals, I that knew them not, must refer you to the Historians of that age, of whom some extol the Pope and depreciate the Emperor, and others honour the Emperor, and deeply accuse the Pope; But if an Emperor that travelled so far in•o another Country, and put off his ornaments; and with his Army waited three days patiently in the Suburbs of a woman's City barefoot in a great frost, begging mercy and pardon of a Priest before he could be let in, and after this sware obedience to him, I say, If this Prince did not yet sufficiently submit, but deserve to be turned out of his Empire, though at the cost of blood and desolation to the innocent Countries,¹ it will be hard to know when the Obedience and Submission of Kings is enough to satisfy an ambitious Prelate.

I give you the words of Platina all along. And now whether Hildebrand or Henry was the better man in common morals, I that knew them not, must refer you to the Historians of that age, of whom some extol the Pope and depreciate the Emperor, and others honour the Emperor, and deeply accuse the Pope; But if an Emperor that travelled so far in•o another Country, and put off his ornaments; and with his Army waited three daies patiently in the Suburbs of a womans City barefoot in a great frost, begging mercy and pardon of a Priest before he could be let in, and after this sware obedience to him, I say, If this Prince did not yet sufficiently submit, but deserve to be turned out of his Empire, though at the cost of blood and desolation to the innocent Countries,¹ it will be hard to know when the Obedience and Submission of Kings is enough to satisfie an ambitious Prelate.

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