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

§ 2. They say a Synod at Tours wrote an Admonition to one Nomeno•us the King's Lieutenant in Brittany, for Tyranny and Oppression, and casting out the just Bishops, and putting in Mercenaries, Thieves and Robbers; Bin. p. 638. and for despising the warnings of the Pope and Bishops.

§ 2. They say a Synod at Tours wrote an Admonition to one Nomeno•us the King's Lieutenant in Britany, for Tyranny and Oppression, and casting out the just Bishops, and putting in Mercenaries, Thieves and Robbers; Bin. p. 638. and for despising the warnings of the Pope and Bishops.

§ 3. Canisius tells us of a Concilium Regiaticinum, regulating Bishops, and Cap. 6.¹ ordaining that the Arch-Presbyter examine every Master of a Family personally, and take account of their Families and Lives, and receive their Confessions: And Cap. 7. that a Presbyter in the absence of the Bishop, may reconcile a Penitent by his command. Cap. 13. That in the Villages Arch-Presbyters be set over the Lower-Presbyters. C. 12. That none that are denied Communion, may have any Military or Civil Office; and so every Bishop is Master of the Magistrates.

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§ 4. CCLVIII. The Saracens in Spain persecuting the Christians, forced the Bishops to meet in Council at Corduba, and decree against Martyrdom, and the Memorial of Martyrs, ¹saith Binnius, p. 643.[Holding a Satanical Meeting, forbade Martyrdom, and took away the Honour of Martyrs, saying, That they that were not violently drawn to deny the Faith, but offered themselves to danger of their own accord, are not to be numbered with the Martyrs, not working Miracles as the Martyrs did, nor their Bodies remaining uncorrupt.