I went immediately with Du Perron
to the Cardinal of Bourbon, with whom it was agreed that those articles
of faith which were disputed by the two churches should be admitted, but
that all the rest should be suppressed as useless. The parties approved
of this regulation; and the instrument was drawn up in such a manner that
the King there acknowledged all the Roman tenets upon the Holy Scripture:
the Church, the number and ceremonies of the sacraments, the sacrifices
of the mass, transubstantiation, the doctrine of justification, the
invocation of saints, the worship of relics and images, purgatory,
indulgences, and the supremacy and power of the pope,[3] after which the
satisfaction was general.[4]
[3] Another act of equal validity, by which Henry IV acknowledged
the pope's authority, is the declaration which he made after his
conversion, that it was necessity and the confusion of affairs
which obliged him to receive absolution from the prelates of France
rather than from those of the Holy Father.
[4] It was Renauld, or Beaune de Samblancai, Archbishop of Bourges,
who received the King's abjuration; the Cardinal of Bourbon, who
was not a priest, and nine other bishops assisted at the ceremony.
Henry IV entering the Chapel of St.
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