[112] Tractatus et sermones sanctorum patrum, Hieronymi, Augustini, Gregorii recusat. Ibid. [113] Clemens contra catholicam contendit ecclesiam. Bonifacii epistola ad Papam, Labbei concilia ad ann. 745. [114] Multa alia horribilia de prædestinatione Dei, contraria fidei catholicæ affirmat. Ibid. Boniface was confounded. He wished to do in central Europe what his fellow-countryman Wilfrid had done in England; and at the very moment he fancied he was advancing from triumph to triumph, victory escaped from his hands. He turned against this new enemy, and applying to Charles Martel's sons, Pepin and Carloman, he obtained their consent to the assembling of a council before which he summoned Clement to appear. [Sidenote: CLEMENT CONDEMNED.] The bishops, counts, and other notabilities having met at Soissons on the 2nd March 744, Boniface accused the Scotchman of despising the laws of Rome, the councils, and the fathers; attacked his marriage, which he called an adulterous union, and called in question some secondary points of doctrine. Clement was accordingly excommunicated by Boniface, at once his adversary, accuser, and judge, and thrown into prison, with the approbation of the pope and the king of the Franks.[115] [115] Sacerdotio privans, reduci facit in custodiam. Concilium Romanum. Bonifacii epistola ad Papam, Labbei concilia ad ann. 745. The Scotchman's cause was every where taken up; accusations were brought against the German primate, his persecuting spirit was severely condemned, and his exertions for the triumph of the papacy were resisted.[116] Carloman yielded to this unanimous movement. The prison doors were opened, and Clement had hardly crossed the threshold before he began to protest boldly against human authority in matters of faith: the word of God is the only rule. Upon this Boniface applied to Rome for the heretic's condemnation, and accompanied his request by a silver cup and a garment of delicate texture.[117] The pope decided in synod that if Clement did not retract his errors, he should be delivered up to everlasting damnation, and then requested Boniface to send him to Rome under a sure guard. We here lose all traces of the Scotchman, but it is easy to conjecture what must have been his fate. [116] Propter ista enim, persecutiones et inimicitias et maledictiones multorum populorum patior. (Ibid.) For on account of these things, I suffer the persecution and hatred and maledictions of multitudes. [117] Poculum argenteum et sindonem unam. Gemuli Ep. Ibid.