Truce, as it is commonly called, which was proclaimed a long time agoīy our holy fathers. Go along the road by day or night without being attacked by robbers Īnd whether at home or abroad one is in danger of being despoiledĮither by force or fraud. You are so weak in the administration of justice, that one can hardly It is so bad in some of your provinces, I am told, and Have seen for a long time the great disorder in the world caused by He was not punished because he had stolen the goods of another, butīecause he had not used well the things which were his. Goods? For thus it happened to the rich man in the gospel Man who does not give a part of his goods as alms is punished with theĭamnation of hell, how should he be punished who robs another of his
Their accomplices be expelled from the church and anthematized. If anyone seizes or robs monks, orĬlergymen, or nuns, or their servants, or pilgrims, or merchants, let
The land let them not be sold or withheld. Tithes that belong to God are faithfully paid from all the produce of
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Keep the church and the clergy inĪll its grades entirely free from the secular power. The scourges of the Lord through narrow streets and driven into the And be careful that simony does not take root among you, lestīoth those who buy and those who sell be beaten with Matters that pertain to the church be controlled by the law of theĬhurch. If you wish to be the friends of God, gladly do the Order that, free from blame, you may be able to correct those who are Of another? We read also that if the blind lead the blind, both willįall into the ditch. Has soiled his hands with baseness, how can he cleanse the impurities If anyone hates peace, how can he make others peaceable? Or if anyone Licentious make others modest? And how can the impure make others pure? For how can the ignorant teach others? How can the Provident, modest, learned, peaceable, watchful, pious, just,Įquitable, and pure. But the man who applies this salt should be prudent, Great loss, He will surely condemn you and drive you from His loving And because you cannot restore to Him His Your duty, He will command them as worthless to be thrown into theĪbyss of unclean things. For if He, shallįind worms, that is, sins, In them, because you have been negligent in Them putrefied by their sins unsalted and stinking. Of this -world, lest the Lord, when He may wish to speak to them, find Salt of wisdom this foolish people which is so devoted to the pleasures
The need of salting! It is indeed necessary for you to correct with the Short in your duty, how, it may be asked, can it be salted? O how great Have been bitterly scourged with remorse for your faults-, you will beįiercely overwhelmed in hell, the abode of death. Will surely lose the reward laid up for you with God. For if through yourĬarelessness or negligence a wolf carries away one of your sheep, you Do not go to sleep,īut guard on all sides the flock committed to you. Shepherds, with your crooks always in your hands. You areĬalled shepherds see that you do not act as hirelings. Will you be if he finds you faithful in your stewardship. Put you as stewards over his family to minister to it. God's law, with divine help I will do my best to remove it. But if there is in you any deformity or crookedness contrary to I hoped to find you asįaithful and as zealous in the service of God as I had supposed you toīe. Over the whole world, have come into these parts as an ambassador withĪ divine admonition to you, the servants of God. Necessity, I, Urban, by the permission of God chief bishop and prelate Urban II: Speech at the Council of Clermont (1095) 1. Four accounts of his speech and his instructions to the Crusaders are reprinted below. With Western Europe's secular political leaders by calling for the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont. God') and to strengthen the papacy's position in its ongoing conflict Urban IIĭecided to use this request to achieve peace in Europe (the 'Peace of 1081-1118) asked Pope Urban II for troops to help retake Asia Minor from the Seljuk Turks. In 1094, Byzantine Emperor Alexius Komnenos's (r. Urban II: Speech at the Council of Clermont (1095)
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