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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 12
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§ 7. Victor the 2d. is next Pope an. 1055. Leo Hostiensis saith that no man at Rome was found worthy. Plot. saith that they feared offending the Emperor: However the Romans sent to the Emperor to choose one for them, and some say desired this might be the man.
§ 7. Vict•r the 2d. is next Pope an. 1055. Leo Hostiensis saith that no man at Rome was found worthy. Plat. saith that they feared offending the Emperor: However the Romans sent to the Emperor to choose one for them, and some say desired this might be the man.
§ 8. CCCXXXVII. Platina saith that in a Council at Florence he deposed many Bishops for Simony and Fornication.
§ 9. CCCXXXVIII. In a Council at Lyons, Baronius (after others) saith a miracle was done, viz. saith he [The heresy of Simony having seized on all Italy and Burgundy, the Pope sent Hildebrand a sub-Deacon to call a Council, where an Arch-Bishop accused of Simony bribed all his accusers the next day into silence:1 Hildebrand bid him say [Glory be to the Father, Son and Holy Ghost•] He said the rest, but was not able to name the Holy Ghost: Whereupon he confessed his crimes, and besides seven and twenty other Prelates of the Churches, forty five Bishops consest themselves Simoniacs and renounced their places.] ⟨p. 347⟩What a case was the Church in when Popery grew ripe? Pet. Damian. mentioneth six Bishops deposed by Hildebrand for divers crimes.