A26898:1357
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
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.
§ 26. Tit. 4. c. 7. He claimeth Authority to absolve Men from Oaths, and all Obligations made by the violence and constraint of bad Men, and so absolveth the Archbishop of Triers. (A wicked Decree for Perjury:) (As if in materia licita, a Man that sweareth for Fear, were not bound? And as if, Man had not Free-will, when he is under Fear?)
§ 27. C. 6. & 8. He decreeth that none can judge the Pope, nor retract his Judgments, nor judge of them, (contrary to many General Councils.)
He curseth from Christ all that contemn the Pope's Opinions, Mandates, Interdicts, Sanctions, Decrees, &c. •. 9.
Yet he saith that the Church of Rome may change, and mend its own Mistakes and Decrees, n. 10.