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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.
Epist. 260 and commandeth his Arch-Deacon to obey him.
Epist. 261. After this he excommunicateth the Archbishop of Ravenna, and a great stir there was about that also.
Epist. 292. He had made one Optandus Bishop of Geneva: But Opteramus Archbishop of Vienna took it to be an usurpation on his right, and laid the Popes Bishop in a miserable prison; so far was he yet from being where he would be.
Epist. 294. Having excommunicated Athanasius Bishop of Naples for not breaking his Covenant with the Saracens, he absolveth him on condition that yet he will break it. The matter was that the Italians not able to resist the Saracens, those that lay next them under their power sought to save themselves by truce and tribute, by which means the Saracens had leisure to come further near to Rome; and so the Pope to keep them from himself compelled by excommunications the ⟨p. 290⟩Lords and Bishops of other parts to break their league, and stand up in arms to their own destruction.