In the same Council Gib. Porretane, Bishop of Poitiers, is again called, where their Subtleties were disputed over again; and Bernard Abbot Clareval. being his chief Adversary▪ upon Porretane's exception to some of his words, saying, Scribantur, went and drew up some Articles of Faith, seeming contrary to Porretane's, and got many Bishops to subscribe them. The Roman Cardinals took this heinously, and came all together to the Pope, and told him, That it was they that of a private Man made him Pope, and that he must know that it was they that were the Cardines, on which the Axis of the whole Church did turn, and that he must not now be his own, but theirs, and not prefer private and new Friends before his old common ones. And that his Abbot Bernard with the Gallicane Bishops, had audaciously presumed to lift up their Necks against the primacy and top of the Roman Seat, which only doth shut and no man opens, and opens and no man shuts; which only may discuss matters of Faith: And even when absent, may not receive prejudice of this honour from any. But, behold these French-men, contemning our faces, (or presence) have presumed to write their Belief, without consulting us, as if they would pass a definitive Sentence on the matters that have been handled before us: which had it been done at Antioch or Alexandria, had been void—How then durst these usurp in our presence— We will therefore that you presently rise up against thus temerarious Novity, and delay not to punish their Contumacy.] And so they had like to have run into a Schism: But the Pope and Bernard spake them fair, and Bernard said, They wrote not as Determiners, but to give account of their own Faith, when provoked; and so pacified the Cardinals. But this Tumult hindered the deciding of the Case: But, saith Otto, whether Bernard was deceived by humane infirmity, or Porretane escaped by hiding any thing by his great learning, I must not determine.
In the same Council Gib. Porretane, Bishop of Poictiers, is again called, where their Subtilties were disputed over again; and Bernard Abbot Clareval. being his chief Adversary▪ upon Porretane's exception to some of his words, saying, Scribantur, went and drew up some Articles of Faith, seeming contrary to Porretanes, and got many Bishops to subscribe them. The Roman Cardinals took this heinously, and came all together to the Pope, and told him, That it was they that of a private Man made him Pope, and that he must know that it was they that were the Cardines, on which the Axis of the whole Church did turn, and that he must not now be his own, but theirs, and not prefer private and new Friends before his old common ones. And that his Abbot Bernard with the Gallicane Bishops, had audaciously presumed to lift up their Necks against the primacy and top of the Roman Seat, which only doth shut and no man opens, and opens and no man shuts; which only may discuss matters of Faith: And even when absent, may not receive prejudice of this honour from any. But, behold these French-men, contemning our faces, (or presence) have presumed to write their Belief, without consulting us, as if they would pass a definitive Sentence on the matters that have been handled before us: which had it been done at Antioch or Alexandria, had been void—How then durst these usurp in our presence— We will therefore that you presently rise up against thus temerarious Novity, and delay not to punish their Contumacy.] And so they had like to have run into a Schism: But the Pope and Bernard spake them fair, and Bernard said, They wrote not as Determiners, but to give account of their own Faith, when provoked; and so pacified the Cardinals. But this Tumult hindered the deciding of the Case: But, saith Otto, whether Bernard was decived by humane infirmity, or Porretane escaped by hiding any thing by his great learning, I must not determine.
