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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 10
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§ 23. This Pope having Western security, threatened Excommunication to the Emperor of the East, unless he would depose Photius, and restore Ignatius; and threatened Lotharius, for the cause of his rejected Wife, and the Marriage of another, as aforesaid; and swaggered against Hincmarus Rhemensis, for his deposing Rothaldus a Bishop, and forced him to yield, and condemned his Synod at Metz, and would have proved that Pope Benedict had not confirmed it. He and other Popes did make the Contentions of Bishops as well as of Princes a great means of their rising, taking the part of him that appealed to Rome as injured, (and very oft of the truly injured.) By which means they had one Party still for them, and all injured persons were ready to fly to them for help.
§ 23. This Pope having Western security, threatned Excommunication to the Emperor of the East, unless he would depose Photius, and restore Ignatius; and threatned Lotharius, for the cause of his rejected Wife, and the Marriage of another, as aforesaid; and swaggered against Hincmarus Rhemensis, for his deposing Rothaldus a Bishop, and forced him to yield, and condemned his Synod at Metz, and would have proved that Pope Benedict had not confirmed it. He and other Popes did make the Contentions of Bishops as well as of Princes a great means of their rising, taking the part of him that appealed to Rome as injured, (and very oft of the truly injured.) By which means they had one Party still for them, and all injured persons were ready to flie to them for help.
He Excommunicated the Bishops of Colen and Triers. The poor Bishops that would fain be on the stronger side, began now to be at a loss, to know whether the Emperor or the Pope was the strongest. They followed the Emperor, and resisted the Pope a while. The King and Hincmarus forbade Rothaldus going to Rome, and imprisoned him: But the Pope wearied them ⟨p. 269⟩out, by reason of the divisions of the Empire and Kingdom into so many hands of the French Line, that being in continual suspicion of each other, they needed the Pope's help.