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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
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.
The next part of the Book, saith Nicetas, [Synodicus in Nicol•• um Pontificem Romanum tela torquebat, omnisque generis calumnias & atrocia maledicta, in illius Sancti exauctorationem & damnationem complectebatur, ⟨p. 282⟩impie ut tragico prope modo concinuitatus, sane quoque ipsius stygii doctoris magisterio & Photii ministerio dignus. Gregory, Bishop of Syracuse, wrote them out, and sent them to the King of France. Who wrote truly, and who falsely, how should we now know? But this I know,
The next part of the Book, saith Nicetas, [Synodicus in Nicol•• um Pontificem Romanum tela torquebat, omnisque generis calumnias & atrocia maledicta, in illius Sancti exauctorationem & damnationem complectebatur, ⟨p. 282⟩impie ut tragico prope modo concinuitatus, sane quoque ipsius stygii doctoris magisterio & Photii ministerio dignus. Gregory, Bishop of Syracuse, wrote them out, and sent them to the King of France. Who wrote truly, and who falsly, how should we now know? But this I know,
1. That contending who should be greatest was the sin of the Prelates,1 and the plague of the Churches.
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2. And that then it was taken for granted, that the Pope deserving it might be deposed.