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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.
And it is a sad question, that Herveus Bishop of Rhemes put to him (Bin. p. 1048) What to do with those that are Baptized and Rebaptized, and yet after Baptism live as the Heathens, kill Christians, yea the Priests, 1sacrifice to Idols, eat things offered to them? The Pope durst not use Discipline on these, because they were Novices, lest he affright them from the Church to Heathenism again; but left them to the Bishops Discretion and Experience, to do as he saw best.
And it is a sad question, that Herveus Bishop of Rhemes put to him (Bin. p. 1048) What to do with those that are Baptized and Rebaptized, and yet after Baptism live as the Heathens, kill Christians, yea the Priests, 1sacrifice to Idols, eat things offered to them? The Pope durst not use Discipline on these, because they were Novices, lest he affright them from the Church to Heathenisme again; but left them to the Bishops Discretion and Experience, to do as he saw best.
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§. 18. This Pope had a Corrival, which was the 15. Schism: Sergius that had been made Pope with Formosus, and was put out and Banished, did now get in again; but John had the stronger part, and cast him out, and Banished him once again: Onuphr. Chron. p. 28. But had he been but strong enough, the succession had come down from him, as right.
§. 18. This Pope had a Corrival, which was the 15. Schisme: Sergius that had been made Pope with Formosus, and was put out and Banished, did now get in again; but Iohn had the stronger part, and cast him out, and Banished him once again: Onuphr. Chron. p. 28. But had he been but strong enough, the succession had come down from him, as right.