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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.
§ 51. There is by Canisius published an Epitome of the old Canons (except the Nicene) as gathered by this Adrian, and sent to Charles Mag. I will recite a few of them, Ex Clem. c. 23. Let a Bishop, or Presbyter, or Deacon, taken in Fornication, Perjury, or Theft, be deposed, but not excommunicate.
C. 28. That a Bishop who obtaineth a Church by the Secular Powers be deposed.1
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Can. Antioch. 8. Country Presbyters may not give Canonical Epistles, but the Chorepiscopi, (by which it is plain, that the Chorepiscopi were not Presbyters, but (as Petavius on Epiphan. Arrius hath well proved) true Bishops.
Can. Antioch. 8. Countrey Presbyters may not give Canonical Epistles, but the Chorepiscopi, (by which it is plain, that the Chorepiscopi were not Presbyters, but (as Petavius on Epiphan. Arrius hath well proved) true Bishops.