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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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2. The Paris Doctors Collection of Testimonies, proving, (in the middle way) that Images should not be broken contemptuously, as some would have them; nor be worshipped as the General Nicene Council, and the Pope would have them.
3. An Epistle in the Pope's name, written, (saith Bellarmine, by the French Doctors) to Michael the Emperor, showing, that Images are neither to be wronged disgracefully, nor adored.
3. An Epistle in the Pope's name, written, (saith Bellarmine, by the French Doctors) to Michael the Emperor, shewing, that Images are neither to be wronged disgracefully, nor adored.
4. An Epistle of the Emperor Ludovicus to the Pope, desiring him to write to Michael to further this Peace of the Churches.
5. An Epistle of Ludovicus to the two Bishops whom he sent to Rome, [t direct them how to carry themselves wisely, to get the Pope's consent.] Whether this at Paris was a Council, or only a select Convention of Men chosen by the Emperor, is a Controversy of no great moment. I take the latter to be the more honourable sort of Assembly, as the world then went; and should reverence more the judgment of 20 or 12 Men, selected by such an extraordinary Prince, than of the majority of the Bishops of all Europe: As I prefer the judgment of those Men that by King James were appointed to Translate the Bible, before the judgment of the major part of the whole English Clergy, of whom perhaps one in ten had a smattering in the Hebrew Tongue, and one of an hundred understood it, (at the most.)