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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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§ 67. It is here also to be noted, that Basil the Emperor's revolt from the Pope was so great, that Hadrian is put to write sharply to him as accusing the Bishops of Rome, and derogating from them, admonishing him to repent; but we find not that this changed his mind.
§ 68. Yet one thing more is here to be observed. In the life of Hadrian the 2d (Bin. p. 882.) we find that the Pope taking the advantage of Basil's present state and mind, and the interest of Ignatius much depending on him, sent a new Libel to be subscribed by all the Bishops, before they should be permitted to sit in Council. The Greek Bishops grudged at this, and complained to the Emperor, [That the Church of Constantinople by these offered Libels, was brought under the power of Rome, by the doubtfulness of Subscriptions.] But though flebiliter conqueruntur, they complain with tears, the Emperor was angry with them, ⟨p. 285⟩and would have it; and some Bishops non sine magno laboris periculo, libellos quidem vix tandem recipiunt, with much ado were brought to subscribe, saying, It was novum & inauditum. The refusers extra Synodum inglorii relicti sunt, were shut out till they conformed: (Oh! that Inglorii was a cutting word.)
§ 69. The Emperor hiding his anger against the Pope's Legates (for the Bulgarian Usurpation) gave them great gifts, and sent them home. But at Sea they fell into the hands of the Sclavonians, who stripped them of their Riches, and the Subscriptions and Copy of the Council, and kept them Prisoners, and threatened their Lives: But by the mediation of the Emperor and Pope, they were delivered, and had some of their Writings again.
§ 69. The Emperor hiding his anger against the Pope's Legates (for the Bulgarian Usurpation) gave them great gifts, and sent them home. But at Sea they fell into the hands of the Sclavonians, who stripped them of their Riches, and the Subscriptions and Copy of the Council, and kept them Prisoners, and threatned their Lives: But by the mediation of the Emperor and Pope, they were delivered, and had some of their Writings again.