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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
7. What power hath Pope Nicholas to bind his successors? Have not they as much power as he? and so to undo it all again? If the King should decree that his Kingdom hereafter shall not be hereditary but elective, and that the Bishops should be the choosers of the King, were this obligatory against the right of his heirs?
8. By this decree, if the Laity and Clerks consent not after, he is still no Pope.
§ 23. In this same Council (saith Bin. ibid.) it was decreed [that no one hear the Mass of a Presbyter, whom he knoweth undoubtedly to have a Concubine, 1or Subintroduced Woman.] Quaer. Whether they that make him a Schismatic that goeth from a scandalous, wicked, malignant, or utterly insufficient Priest, and dare not commit the care of his soul to such a one, be not looser than Pope Nicholas and this Roman Council was?
§ 23. In this same Council (saith Bin. ibid.) it was decreed [that no one hear the Mass of a Presbyter, whom he knoweth undoubtedly to have a Concubine, 1or Subintroduced Woman.] Quaer. Whether they that make him a Schismatick that goeth from a scandalous, wicked, malignant, or utterly insufficient Priest, and dare not commit the care of his soul to such a one, be not looser than Pope Nicholas and this Roman Council was?
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