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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.
§ 98. CCXCVII. An. 8•7. A Council at Colen under Charles Crassus, made Canons against Sacrilege and Adultery.
§. 99. CCXCVIII. An. 888. A Council at Mentz,) while they were all in distress by the depopulations of the Normans) first decreed to pray for the King, and then tell him that Rex dicitur a Regendo: And if he rule piously, justly and mercifully he is justly called a King, but if impiously, unjustly, and cruelly he is a Tyrant.