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and one substance; that he proceeds by the Son, chapbeing of the same nature and substance, and that LXVI 'he proceeds from the Father and the Son, by onespiration and production. It is less difficult tounderstand the articles of the preliminary treaty;that the pope should defray all the expences ofthe Greeks in their return home; that he shouldannually maintain two gallies and three hundredsoldiers for the defence of Constantinople ; thatall the ships which transported pilgrims to Je-rusalem should be obliged to touch at that port;that as often as they were required, the popeshould furnish ten gallies for a year, or twentyfor six months; and that he should powerfullysolicit the princes of Europe , if the emperor hadoccasion for land-forces.

The same year, and almost the same day, Eugeni«»were marked by the deposition of Eugenius at Basil ,Basil ; and, at Florence, by his re-union of thejune2s! &Greeks and Latins. In the former synod (whichhe styled indeed an assembly of daemons), thepope was branded with the guilt of simony, per-jury, tyranny, heresy, and schism;" and declar-ed to he incorrigible in his vices, unworthy ofany title, and incapable of holding any ecclesi-astical office. In the latter he was revered as Re-unionthe true and holy vicar of Christ, who, after a Greeks atseparation of six hundred years, had reconciledthe catholics of the East and West, iu one fold, Ju b 6 -and under one shepherd. The act of union wassubscribed by the pope, the emperor, and the

4 From the original Lives of the Popes , in Muratori’s Collection(tom. iii, p.2,tom. xxv), the manners of Eugenius IV appear to havebeen decent, and even exemplary. His situation, exposed to theworld and to his enemies, was a restraint, and is a pledge.