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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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§ 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.
§ 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 cloathed in sackcloth.
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§ 16. Stephen the 9th. alias 10th. is next made Pope: In his time saith Platina the Church of Milan was reconciled to Rome, that had withdrawn itself from it two hundred years. Was all the world then subject to the Pope when his Italian neighbours were not?
§ 17. This Pope lived after his entrance but 6 or 7 months, and they say made them promise him to choose none in his place till Hildebrand came home to counsel them: (A great Subdeacon that Rome must be ruled by.) But in the mean time the new Emperor being but five or six years old, the great men of Italy turned to the old game and brought in one by strength (Mincius) whom they called Benedict the 10th. alias 9th. a Bishop; he reigned 9 months, 20 days. But when Hildebrand came home he got him cast out. This was the twenty first schism in the Papacy.