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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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§ 13. CCCXL. They say that the Emperor dying, left his Son Henry but five years old, and knew no better way to secure his succession than to desire Pope Victor to take the care of it: who therefore called a Council at Colen to quiet Baldwin and Godfrey Earls of Flanders that else would have resisted him. Thus Bishops in Councils now were as Parliaments to the Kingdoms of deluded men.
§ 14. CCCXLI. At Toulouse, an. 1056. A Council of 18 Bishops attempted ⟨p. 348⟩reformation, forbidding (alas! how oft) Bishops to sell orders, and other acts of Simony, and Priests using their wives, and the Adultery, Incest and perjury of Bishops and Priests; bidding them that are such, repent, and forbidding communion with men called heretics.
§ 14. CCCXLI. At Tholouse, an. 1056. A Council of 18 Bishops attempted ⟨p. 348⟩reformation, forbidding (alas! how oft) Bishops to sell orders, and other acts of Simony, and Priests using their wives, and the Adultery, Incest and perjury of Bishops and Priests; bidding them that are such, repent, and forbidding communion with men called hereticks.
§ 15. CCCXLII. Though Adultery, Incest, Perjury and Simony of Bishops was so hardly restrained, it seems they would pay for it by superstition;1 for a Council at Compostella decreed (saith Baron. ad an. 1056.) that 1. All Bishops and Priests should say Mass every day. 2. That at fasts and Litanies (which were perambulations in penitence) they should be clothed in sackcloth.