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

Ep. 1. Append. (Bin. p. 1278) he tells Lanfranc Arch-Bishop of Canterbury, how far the Church was from purity in his days; viz. that [The Bishops and such as should be Pastors of Souls, do with insatiable desire hunt after the Glory of the World, and the pleasures of the flesh. And do not only themselves confound all things that are holy and religious, but by their example draw their Subjects to all wickedness; And that to let them alone is unlawful, and to resist them how difficult!

Ep. 1. Append. (Bin. p. 1278) he tells Lanfrank Arch-Bishop of Canterbury, how far the Church was from purity in his days; viz. that [The Bishops and such as should be Pastors of Souls, do with insatiable desire hunt after the Glory of the World, and the pleasures of the flesh. And do not only themselves confound all things that are holy and religious, but by their example draw their Subjects to all wickedness; And that to let them alone is unlawful, and to resist them how difficult!

So much of the Epistles of Greg. 7th. who seemeth to be much more against vice than his predecessors for many ages, but more for tyrannical usurpation and rebellion than ever any that was before him: And if the better sort of them be such, what may be expected from them?

§ 67. CCCLIII. An. 1074. In a Council at Rome Priests were forbid marrying, and all that were married commanded to put away their Wives: The Arch-Bishop of Mentz trying to do the same in Germany, the whole party of the Clergy (saith Lambert, an. 1074) raged against it, and called the Pope a downright Heretic that opposed Christs Law, who forbade putting away Wives except for fornication, saying, all men cannot receive this saying; and as driving men to fornication: They went from the Synod, and some were for casting cut the Archbishop of Mentz and putting him to death: But he spake them fair. But the Pope went on.