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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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II. They say, There should be Seventy-Two Witnesses; and there was scarce one, besides the Accusers.] Answ. 1. The whole Council, and People of Rome, and Army, are Witnesses, under the most direful Imprecations. 2. The Pope may go on safely, till God take him in Hand, if he must pass for Innocent till he will lye with his own Sisters, or murder Men, and cut off their Virilia, &c. before Seventy-Two Witnesses! O shameful Holy-Church, that is thus Essentiated!
II. They say, There should be Seventy-Two Witnesses; and there was scarce one, besides the Accusers.] Answ. 1. The whole Council, and People of Rome, and Army, are VVitnesses, under the most direful Imprecations. 2. The Pope may go on safely, till God take him in Hand, if he must pass for Innocent till he will lye with his own Sisters, or murder Men, and cut off their Virilia, &c. before Seventy-Two VVitnesses! O shameful Holy-Church, that is thus Essentiated!
III. They say He should have been thrice cited. Ans. 1. What! When he would not be found? 2. Is that necessary to the being of the Sentence?
IV. They say, No delay was granted! Ans. He was not to be found: And to what was delay necessary, when the Babylonians, Iberians, and Indians had notice of his Diabolical Life.