in our hands, of Charlemaine, of Lewis le Debonnaire, and of Charles the Bald, are also so many Authentick Evidences. It was hereupon, that Constantine saith in Eusebius,
That God had Established him Bishop; that he should take care of things which passed out of the Church; and in the same Treatise, he is called, The Common Bishop, establish'd by God. In the 6th Action of the Council of Chalcedon, there is given to Marcien, the Title of Sacerdos. St. Remy calls Clovis, the Bishop of the Country, Tom. 1. Conc. Gall. p. 204. The Fa∣thers of the Council of Mayence, in the Year 819. calls Charlemaine, The Director of the True Religion, and the Defender of the Holy Church. Which the 6th Synod of Paris, in the Year 829. saith also of Lewis le Debonnaire, and of Lothaire his Son.
It is also in all likelihood, by the same motive, that in the 98th Letter of Loup Abbot of Ferriers, where there is mention of the promotion of Aeneas to the Bishoprick of Paris, in the 9th Century, The gift of the Prince is joyn'd to that of God: As if one had been fully persuaded in France, that the King was in God's stead, in Establishing of Bishops. Thence it is also, that whereas Loup, in the 29th Letter, writes that Aldrich was made Bishop of Sens, by the Command of Caesar; the Frier Clarius, in his Chronicle of St. Peter vif. of Sens, saith, That it hapned by the Will of God. To intimate, that the Power whereof Princes were in possession, was given them from Heaven, it is the reason wherefore in the 2d Council of Thionville, in the Year 844. it is said, That Bishops are given of God, regularly design'd by Princes, (they mean the Children of Lewis le Debonnaire) and Consecrated by the Grace of the Holy Spirit. In the Life of Nicetas, who was Bishop of Lyons in the 6th Century, it is observ'd, That the good will of the