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Church-history of the government of bishops and their councils abbreviated including the chief part…
Church-history of the government of bishops and their councils abbreviated including the chief part of the government of Christian princes and popes, and a true account of the most troubling controversies and heresies till the Reformation ... / by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed by B. Griffin for Thomas Simmons, 1680
Church-History OF BISHOPS And their COUNCILS ABRIDGED, &c. › Chapter 9
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
§ 19. CCXXV. I told you before how the Pope commanded Boniface to call a Council to eject him that asserted the Antipodes; I must next add a French Council called by King Carolomannus to Reform the Clergy (an. 742.) and to recover Christian Religion, which in the days of former Princes dissipata corruit, being dissipated, was ruined; and to show the People how they may come to save their Souls, who have been hitherto deceived by false Priests. (They are the words of the King and Council, Bin. p. 210. c. 2.) Where it was decreed that Priests be not Soldiers, (unnecessarily:) That they keep not Hounds to go an hunting with, nor Hawks: That every Religious Fornicator shall in the Jail do Penance with Bread and Water. If the Fornicator be a Priest, he shall be first scourged, and then remain in Prison two years: But if an inferior Clerk or Monk so fall, he shall be whipped, and then do Penance a whole year in Prison, and so the Nuns.
§ 19. CCXXV. I told you before how the Pope commanded Boniface to call a Council to eject him that asserted the Antipodes; I must next add a French Council called by King Carolomannus to Reform the Clergy (an. 742.) and to recover Christian Religion, which in the dayes of former Princes dissipata corruit, being dissipated, was ruined; and to shew the People how they may come to save their Souls, who have been hitherto deceived by false Priests. (They are the words of the King and Council, Bin. p. 210. c. 2.) Where it was decreed that Priests be not Soldiers, (unnecessarily:) That they keep not Hounds to go an hunting with, nor Hawks: That every Religious Fornicator shall in the Jayl do Pennance with Bread and Water. If the Fornicator be a Priest, he shall be first scourged, and then remain in Prison two years: But if an inferior Clerk or Monk so fall, he shall be whipt, and then do Pennance a whole year in Prison, and so the Nuns.
This was somewhat like a Reformation: Had it not been done by a King▪ it might have past for Heresy. It was at Ratisbonne; Boniface presiding.
This was somewhat like a Reformation: Had it not been done by a King▪ it might have past for Heresie. It was at Ratisbonne; Boniface presiding.