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

The Bishop of Soissons misusing a saying, [Cum quis diceret, Socratem esse nihil diceret.] He turned the Auditory against himself; and they asked Porretane to open why he so distinguished the Persons; who answered, [Quia omnis persona est per se una.] which puzzled or amazed them, and ended that days work.

The Bishop of Soissons misusing a saying, [Cum quis diceret, Socratem esse nihil diceret.] He turned the Auditory against himself; and they asked Porretane to open why he so distinguished the Persons; who answered, [Quia omnis persona est per se una.] which puzled or amazed them, and ended that days work.

The next day he was accused of Novelty, for saying that [The three persons were tria singularia.] The Archbishop of Rouen aggravating it, said that [God should rather be called unum singular, than tria singularia.] At which many were offended, because Hilary saith, [Sicut duos Deos dicere profanum est, ita singularem & solitarium dicere sacrilegum est•-Et nihil solitarium ex divinis Sacramentis ad suspicionem audientium & occasionem blasphemantium proferamus.] But Porretane told them, that by singular, he meant nothing but excellent and incomparable. In this manner Porretane, Bishop of Poitiers, was examined, and modestly answered them many days; till the Pope perceiving that these School-niceties being too hard for him, durst not determine them, nor gratify Bernard (though his Friend) and the Hereticating Bishops and Clergy, but craftily put it off to a General Council. This is all out of Otto Frising. recited by Bin. p. 1332.

The next day he was accused of Novelty, for saying that [The three persons were tria singularia.] The Archbishop of Rouen aggravating it, said that [God should rather be called unum singulare, than tria singularia.] At which many were offended, because Hilary saith, [Sicut duos Deos dicere profanum est, ita singularem & solitarium dicere sacrilegum est•-Et nihil solitarium ex divinis Sacramentis ad suspicionem audientium & occasionem blasphemantium proferamus.] But Porretane told them, that by singular, he meant nothing but excellent and incomparable. In this manner Porretane, Bishop of Poictiers, was examined, and modestly answered them many days; till the Pope perceiving that these School-niceties being too hard for him, durst not determine them, nor gratifie Bernard (though his Friend) and the Hereticating Bishops and Clergy, but craftily put it off to a General Council. This is all out of Otto Frising. recited by Bin. p. 1332.