Church-history of the government of bishops and their councils abbreviated including the chief part…

And now comes in Binnius with his Comment and saith that [would our refractory novelists,¹ who with great temerity dare profess that the Roman Popes in the crowning of Emperors have no other right then barely ministerially to anoint and crown them, had but known these Acts (^*) They would from them have learned that that Pope John (alias Joan) did not only anoint and crown Charles, but also by Gods instinct did choose him to govern the Empire, and raised him to that sublime dignity honouring him with the Augustal name, before he was anointed and crowned by him, and that the Empire was conferred on him, not by hereditary right of succession, but by the will of the Pope who chose him and granted it to him.] BE WISE therefore O YE KINGS, BE instructed ye that are Judges of the earth—Kiss the Popes foot lest he be angry and ye perish in the way; If his wrath be kindled, yea, but a little, &c.

And now comes in Binnius with his Comment and saith that [would our refractory novelists,¹ who with great temerity dare profess that the Roman Popes in the crowning of Emperors have no other right then barely ministerially to anoint and crown them, had but known these Acts (^*) They would from them have learned that that Pope John (alias Joan) did not only anoint and crown Charles, but also by Gods instinct did choose him to govern the Empire, and raised him to that sublime dignity honouring him with the Augustal name, before he was anointed and crowned by him, and that the Empire was conferred on him, not by hereditary right of succession, but by the will of the Pope who chose him and granted it to him.] BE WISE therefore O YE KINGS, BE instructed ye that are Iudges of the earth—Kiss the Popes foot lest he be angry and ye perish in the way; If his wrath be kindled, yea, but a little, &c.

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2. *we now know them.