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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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§ 56. CCLXXXIII. An. 868. Besides the Popes Roman Synod that damned Photius and his Book and Const▪ Council, there was a Council at Worms, which repealed many old Canons, of which the 14th. is, 1that if Bishops shall excommunicate any wrongfully or for light cause and not restore them, the neighbour Bishops shall take such to their communion till the next Synod.
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The 15. Canon is, that because in Monasteries there are Thieves that cannot be found, when the suspected purge themselves, they shall receive the sacrament of Christ's body and blood, thereby to show that they are innocent.] But this Canon the Papists are ashamed of.
The 15. Canon is, that because in Monasteries there are Thieves that cannot be found, when the suspected purge themselves, they shall receive the sacrament of Christ's body and blood, thereby to shew that they are innocent.] But this Canon the Papists are ashamed of.
The 72. Canon alloweth Presbyters (yea all Christians) to anoint the sick, because the Bishops hindered with other business cannot go to all the sick.] This intimateth that even then the Dioceses were not so great as ours that have one or many Counties, else other reason would have been given why the Bishop could not visit all the sick, than his hindering businesses: Would the Bishop, e. g. of Lincoln say, I would visit all the sick in Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Leicestershire, Huntingdonshire, Rutlandshire, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, which are in my Diocese, but that I am hindered by other business? who would take this for the words of a sober man?