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

§ 132. CCCXCIX. An. 1116. In a Lateran General Council (as they called it) it unhappily fell out, that the Pope who had before called the Emperor's claim an Heresy, (as Councils had before named it, The Henrician ⟨p. 377⟩Heresy) could not here disclaim and revoke his Act, without confessing his fault, in granting that power to the Emperor, and confirming it by Covenant and Oath. He tells them that he is but a Man, and so a Sinner, and lamenting his sin, begs their prayers to God for pardon, and then anathematizeth all that he had written, and desireth them to do the like. Hereupon a crafty Bishop (Bruno Signinus) said, Let us give thanks to God, that we our selves have heard the Pope condemn that Privilege that containeth Pravity and Heresy: ¹And if that Privilege contain Heresy, then he that made it was an Heretic.] This put them all to their shifts; and Joh. Cajetan angerly said, [Dost thou call the Pope an Heretic here, and in our hearing? The writing that our Lord the Pope made was Evil, but not Heresy. Another Bishop said, [Nay it ought not to be called Evil; For to deliver the People of God is good, by the authority of the Gospel, which commandeth us animas ponere, to lay down our Souls for the Brethren: And that which the Pope did, was to deliver the People of God.]

§ 132. CCCXCIX. An. 1116. In a Lateran General Council (as they call'd it) it unhappily fell out, that the Pope who had before call'd the Emperor's claim an Heresie, (as Councils had before named it, The Henrician ⟨p. 377⟩Heresie) could not here disclaim and revoke his Act, without confessing his fault, in granting that power to the Emperor, and confirming it by Covenant and Oath. He tells them that he is but a Man, and so a Sinner, and lamenting his sin, begs their prayers to God for pardon, and then anathematizeth all that he had written, and desireth them to do the like. Hereupon a crafty Bishop (Bruno Signinus) said, Let us give thanks to God, that we our selves have heard the Pope condemn that Priviledge that containeth Pravity and Heresie: ¹And if that Priviledge contain Heresie, then he that made it was an Heretick.] This put them all to their shifts; and Ioh. Cajetan angerly said, [Dost thou call the Pope an Heretick here, and in our hearing? The writing that our Lord the Pope made was Evil, but not Heresie. Another Bishop said, [Nay it ought not to be called Evil; For to deliver the People of God is good, by the authority of the Gospel, which commandeth us animas ponere, to lay down our Souls for the Brethren: And that which the Pope did, was to deliver the People of God.]