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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. 105. That a Bishop shall not Excommunicate a man on a Confession made only to himself: if he do, other Bishops shall deny Communion to that Bishop.
§ 52. Several German Councils are mentioned, (at Worms, Paderborne, Daria, in which (by a new example) Charles Mag. is confirmed to force the Saxons to profess themselves Christians, and to take an Oath never to revolt: who yet (doing it by constraint) were oft perjured and revolted, till at last their Heathen Duke Witichind became a voluntary Christian himself.
§ 52. Several German Councils are mentioned, (at Wormes, Paderborne, Daria, in which (by a new example) Charles Mag. is confirmed to force the Saxons to profess themselves Christians, and to take an Oath never to revolt: who yet (doing it by constraint) were oft perjured and revolted, till at last their Heathen Duke Witichind became a voluntary Christian himself.
§ 53. There are 80 more Canons against Oppressors of the Clergy, said to be collected by Adrian, of which one is the old one, That no Bishop judge the Cause of any Priest,1 without the presence of his Clergy; because the Bishop's Sentence shall be void, if it be not confirmed by the presence of the Clergy.
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