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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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§ 19. This Pope's first epistle is to the Arch-Bishop of Rhemes to advise him to admonish the King of France for resisting the Pope.
§ 20. CCCXLIII. The Pope's Council at Sutrium deposed Benedict.
§ 21. CCCXLIV. An. 1059. A Council of 113 Bishops at Rome, they say, made Berengarius recant, but not repent; but as soon as he came home he wrote against them and their Doctrine.
§ 22. In this Council, saith Platina, the Pope made a decree very profitable to the Church of Rome. Bin. saith these were the words (translated) [p. 1666. First, God being the Inspector it is decreed that the election of the Roman Bishop be in the power of the Cardinal Bishops: so that if any one be enthroned in the Apostolic seat, without the foregoing concordant and Canonical election of them, and after the consent of the following religious Orders, Clerks and Laity,(*) he be not accounted Apostolical but Apostatical.]