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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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§. 76. An Instance was given of a Bishop of the contrary Spirit: Adel•ert Bishop of Prague in Bohemia •ound the People so contrary to him, ⟨p. 335⟩and bad, that he forsook them, and Travelled first, and then entered into a Monastery: And when he had lived there five years, the people desired him again, and promised Obedience. A Council at Rome desired his return, which with grief he did; But they still proved incorrigible, and he again forsook them and went to Preach to the Hungarians, when he Baptized the King Stephen, and did much good. Bin. p. 1071.
§. 76. An Instance was given of a Bishop of the contrary Spirit: Adel•ert Bishop of Prague in Bohemia •ound the People so contrury to him, ⟨p. 335⟩and bad, that he forsook them, and Travelled first, and then entred into a Monastery: And when he had lived there five years, the people desired him again, and promised Obedience. A Council at Rome desired his return, vvhich with grief he did; But they still proved incorrigble, and he again forsook them and vvent to Preach to the Hungarians, when he Bapzed the King Stephen, and did much good. Bin. p. 1071.
§. 77. CCCXX. Arnulphus Arch-Bishop of Rhemes suspected of Treason, for delivering up the City of Rhemes to Charles: Called a Synod at Seulis, to purge himself, Excommunicating them that did it. Anno 990.
§. 78. CCCXXI. Hugo Capet having now got the Crown of France, and desirous to destroy all the Carolines line, upon the aforesaid suspicion got a Synod at Rhemes, to cast out Arnulphus a Bastard of that Lin; saying, a Bastard must not be a Bishop: One Bishop refused; The rest for fear of that King consented, and cast him out; (so constant were the French Bishops.)