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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
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.
§. 4. CCCV. Pope Stephen called a Council in which his usage of Pope Formosus was approved, Bin. ex Baron. p. 1047▪ so ready were the Bishops to follow the strongest side, 1in such things as the Papists mention with abhorrence. 2And (say they) this portentum attended the Synod, That the Lateran Church, the chief Seat of the Pope, by the impulse of an evil Angel fell down ⟨p. 315⟩quite from the Altar to the doors: the Walls not being able to stand, when the Chief Cardinal Door was shaken with the Earthquake of so great a Villainy.
§. 4. CCCV. Pope Stephen called a Council in which his usage of Pope Formosus was approved, Bin. ex Baron. p. 1047▪ so ready were the Bishops to follow the strongest side, 1in such things as the Papists mention with abhorrence. 2And (say they) this portentum attended the Synod, That the Laterane Church, the chief Seat of the Pope, by the impulse of an evill Angel fell down ⟨p. 315⟩quite from the Altar to the doors: the Walls not being able to stand, when the Chief Cardinal Door was shaken with the Earthquake of so great a Villany.
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