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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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Yet Epist. 307. showeth, the Bishop of Ravenna being dead, that yet the Roman usurpation was not grown so high as to take the choice of the Bishop out of the People and Presbyters hands, except in long neglected vacancies (as Geneva aforesaid.)
Yet Epist. 307. sheweth, the Bishop of Ravenna being dead, that yet the Roman usurpation was not grown so high as to take the choice of the Bishop out of the People and Presbyters hands, except in long neglected vacancies (as Geneva aforesaid.)
Had not this Pope been kept under by Gods judgments, suffering the Saracens so to ruin Italy as that he still needed the help of Princes, he had been like to have overthrown Rome by his usurpations, setting both Princes and Prelates against him: But necessity made him a flatterer of the two Emperors of the West, the Emperor of the East, the King of France, the King of Bulgaria, the Princes of Pannonia, and all that he needed, as ambition made him still striving by Tibi dabo claves, and Anathematizing to affright the world to his obedience. I say not worse of him than Baronius, Binnius, &c. who have no other way to deny the Histories of Pope Joan, than by saying that this mans baser compliance made him called Pope Joan.
Had not this Pope been kept under by Gods judgments, suffering the Saracens so to ruine Italy as that he still needed the help of Princes, he had been like to have overthrown Rome by his usurpations, setting both Princes and Prelates against him: But necessity made him a flatterer of the two Emperors of the West, the Emperor of the East, the King of France, the King of Bulgaria, the Princes of Pannonia, and all that he needed, as ambition made him still striving by Tibi dabo claves, and Anathematizing to affright the world to his obedience. I say not worse of him than Baronius, Binnius, &c. who have no other way to deny the Histories of Pope Ioan, than by saying that this mans baser compliance made him called Pope Joan.