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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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Tit. 14. Lay-men must not judge of the lives of Priests,1 nor so much as search into them.
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§ 31. CCLXIV. An. 858. A Council at Constantinople placed Photius in the place of Ignatius, (of which before, and more anon;) Ignatius is banished: we have not the History and Reasons of the Council.
§ 32. CCLXV. An. 869. A Council was called at Tullum of the Bishops of twelve Provinces by King Charles, where, besides other Clergy-mens miscarriages, Wenilo Archbishop of Sens, was accused of Treasonable Defection by the King. In which it's pity that Bishops below the Pope should have or pretend to the Power which the King doth intimate in these words, Bin. ⟨p. 271⟩p. 798. [From which my consecration or sublimity of Kingdom, I ought not to be supplanted or cast down by any one, without the hearing and judgment of the Bishops,1 by whose Ministry I was consecrated King, and who are called the Throne of God, in which God sitteth, and by whom he decreeth his judgments, to whose fatherly Correptions, and castigatory Judgments, I was ready to subject my self, and at present am subject.]
§ 32. CCLXV. An. 869. A Council was called at Tullum of the Bishops of twelve Provinces by King Charles, where, besides other Clergy-mens miscarriages, Wenilo Archbishop of Sens, was accused of Treasonable Defection by the King. In which it's pity that Bishops below the Pope should have or pretend to the Power which the King doth intimate in these words, Bin.