[28] On this occasion the effects of love and hatred are the same; and the zealous Protestants, who seek to kindle the indignation, and to alarm the fears, of princes and magistrates, expatiate on the insolence and treason of the two Gregories against their lawful sovereign.

[29] They are defended only by the moderate Catholics, for the most part, of the Gallican church, [30] who respect the saint, without approving the sin.

These common advocates of the crown and the mitre circumscribe the truth of facts by the rule of equity, Scripture, and tradition, and appeal to the evidence of the Latins, [31] and the lives [32] and epistles of the popes themselves.
[Footnote 26: Theophanes.

(Chronograph.p.

343.) For this Gregory is styled by Cedrenus.