A26898:1201

Church-history of the government of bishops and their councils abbreviated including the chief part…

Name: Church-history of the government of bishops and their councils abbreviated including the chief part…
Author: Richard Baxter

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 ...

Richard Baxter 1615–1691London: printed by B. Griffin for Thomas Simmons, 1680

[44], 488 p. · 238k words · Wing B1224 · ESTC R229528

Title page: Duke University Libraries copy, digitized by the Internet Archive (opens the Internet Archive in a new tab)

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.

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§ 98. The Venetian Duke killing a Patriarch, Johan. Gradensis, Paulus Patriarch of Aquileia called a Synod to crave aid of Charles.

§ 98. The Venetian Duke killing a Patriarch, Iohan. Gradensis, Paulus Patriarch of Aquileia called a Synod to crave aid of Charles.

:1199p. 242

§ 99. CCXXXV. An. 806. A Council was held at Constantinople, ¹in the Cause of the foresaid Joseph that had married the Emperor to his second wife, who had been ejected by Tarasius from his Bishopric, and the Emperor calling a Council, they restored him; wherefore Theodorus Studita called them a Council of Heretics and Adulterants, because they restored the Causer of the Emperor's Adultery. But how few Emperors have not found Councils of Bishops ready to do their Will?

§ 99. CCXXXV. An. 806. A Council was held at Constantinople, ¹in the Cause of the foresaid Ioseph that had married the Emperor to his second wife, who had been ejected by Tarasius from his Bishoprick, and the Emperor calling a Council, they restored him; wherefore Theodorus Studita called them a Council of Hereticks and Adulterants, because they restored the Causer of the Emperor's Adultery. But how few Emperors have not found Councils of Bishops ready to do their Will?

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§ 100. Charles the Great making his Will, divided his Empire between his three Sons, giving them Laws of Communion and Succession, (that if one dyed without Children, his Kingdom be divided between the other two; but if he have such Sons as the People will choose,

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The book

Title as printed

Author

Richard Baxter 1615–1691

Place

London

Printer

B. Griffin

Bookseller

Thomas Simmons

Year

1680

Size

[44], 488 p.

Words

237,941

Catalogue

Wing B1224 · ESTC R229528

Text

EEBO-TCP A26898

Passages

2,467

Sections

Title page

Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36