Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

SCRIPTURE AND THE FATHERS. 107
1^'ho, by the encouragement of the Pope, had
plundered his dominions, and murdered such
vast multitudes of his subjects, that in Baziers
alone, above GO,0(X) persons were destroyed.
But after all, refusing to surrender his possessions
at the command of the Church, he was
again excommunicated. Upon this, he flew to
arms, but was at last obliged to resort to the
tender mercy of the Pope, before whom he
From him
and his son appeared as suppliants.
he obtained, that his lands should be given to
his enemies ; and as a great favour, 400 merks
allowed himself for subsistence,
on condition of
submitting and acquiescing in his sentence.
The Emperor Henry IV., having been excommunicated,
soon found almost the whole princes
of the empire in arms against him. By an extraordinary
act of humility, he therefore endeavoured
to appease the wrath of the PontifE
In the middle of winter,
he took a journey into
kaly, with his wife and a son of two years old.
On arriving at Canopa, where the Pope then
was, he was perm^itted to enter the outer gate,
which w^as immediately shut,
and his attendants
excluded. He was then informed, that there
could be no remission for him, unless he remained
for a time where he was, in the condition
of a penitent. For three days, therefore, he
continued in the outer court, clothed in mean
apparel, exposed to the cold and snow, barefooted.