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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
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C. 19. That Dioceses that wants Bishops, receive none without the consent of the Bishop who hitherto held them, (so it was) not proudly; For if he overhold them, (that is, hold them under himself alone, when they need more Bishops) affecting to sit over the People, and despising his Fellow-Bishops, he is not only to be driven from the retained Dioceses, but also from his own Church:] (so that no proud Bishops should have power to hinder the Churches from having as many Bishops as they need.)
C. 19. That Diocesses that wants Bishops, receive none without the consent of the Bishop who hitherto held them, (so it was) not proudly; For if he overhold them, (that is, hold them under himself alone, when they need more Bishops) affecting to sit over the People, and despising his Fellow-Bishops, he is not only to be driven from the retained Diocesses, but also from his own Church:] (so that no proud Bishops should have power to hinder the Churches from having as many Bishops as they need.)
C. 60. That Bishops that are of later Ordination, presume not to set or prefer themselves before those that were before them.
C. 94. If a Bishop, six months after admonition of other Bishops, neglect to make Catholics of the People belonging to his Seat, any other shall obtain them that shall deliver them from their Heresy: 1(that is, Donatism, or the like;) so that if one Bishop neglect the Souls of his People, and another that is more able and faithful convert them, they may be the Flock of him that converted them, without removing their dwelling.
C. 94. If a Bishop, six months after admonition of other Bishops, neglect to make Catholicks of the People belonging to his Seat, any other shall obtain them that shall deliver them from their Heresie: