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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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§ 91. Binnius saith, p. 429. that Faelix, besides his other Heresy, impugned Images, and that this is said by the Concil. Senonens. in Decret, fid. c. 14. ⟨p. 241⟩Platina in Adrian. Sabellic. Enead. 8. li. 8. Alph. de Castro verb. Imago. And that Claud. Taurin. being his Disciple, and an Iconomach, he must needs be so himself: From whence I argue, that it is most probable that the Historians say true, that say Charles and the Council of Frankford were against the Nicene Council and Images. For else how could it come to pass, that they say not one word against Faelix and Elipandus for denying Images,1 when their Party was grown so great in Spain and France?
§ 91. Binnius saith, p. 429. that Faelix, besides his other Heresie, impugned Images, and that this is said by the Concil. Senonens. in Decret, fid. c. 14. ⟨p. 241⟩Platina in Adrian. Sabellic. Enead. 8. li. 8. Alph. de Castro verb. Imago. And that Claud. Taurin. being his Disciple, and an Iconomach, he must needs be so himself: From whence I argue, that it is most probable that the Historians say true, that say Charles and the Council of Frankford were against the Nicene Council and Images. For else how could it come to pass, that they say not one word against Faelix and Elipandus for denying Images,1 when their Party was grown so great in Spain and France?
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§ 92. Pope Adrian dying, Leo the 3d succeeded. His Piety was so great, that Anastasius writes, as it were, a Volume, in naming the good works which he did, that is, the Silks, Veils, Clothing, Silver, Gold, and innumerable gifts which he bestowed upon Posts, Pillars, Altars, Walls, Floors, Utensils, it would tire one to read them, and the hard names of them; yea, he said seven Masses a day. Yet some Kinsmen of Pope Adrian's, Paschal Primicerius, & Campullus Sacellarius, & Maurus Nepesinus, laid Crimes to his charge; and assaulted him, and twice put out his Eyes, and cut out his Tongue, and put him in a Monastery;