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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 11
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CHAP. XI.
The Progress of Counsels till Leo 9th. especially in Italy, France and Germany, and their Behaviour.
§. 1. CCCI. Odo Earl of Paris, having Usurped the Kingdom in the Minority of Charles the simple the right Heir, Fulke Bishop of Rhemes calleth a Synod and deposeth him, and sets up Charles (such Power had Prelates). Some say the French Chose Odo by Arnulphu's Consent; and some say, that he dying, desired that Charles might have Possession. This was Anno 892.
§. 1. CCCI. ODo Earl of Paris, having Usurped the Kingdom in the Minority of Charles the simple the right Heir, Fulke Bishop of Rhemes calleth a Synod and deposeth him, and sets up Charles (such Power had Prelates). Some say the French Chose Odo by Arnulphu's Consent; and some say, that he dying, desired that Charles might have Possession. This was Anno 892.
§. 2. The great Devastations made by the Normans, burning Cities, Churches, Monasteries; and at last forcing Consent for a Habitation in Neustria, I pass over; and Petavius out of some Writers of their own will tell you, that when Chartres was besieged by them, the Virgin Maris smock, which King Charles Calvus had brought thither from Besançon, being carried, cast them into so great a Terror, that they fled away all in Confusion. Where they had this Smock, and how many Hundred Years after the Virgin Maris death it was found, and how they knew it to be hers, and how it was so long kept, and where, and why it did not many Miracles sooner, till above 900 Years after Christ, are Questions which I cannot Answer.