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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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He after required Rent (Peter-Pence) from England of William.
§ 28. He made some constitutions for his old Church at Milan. Three thing are the sum of them and many other Councils. 1. Against Simony. 2. Against the Clergies fornication (no Canons cured them of either of these.) 3. That no Lay-Man judge any Clerk for his crimes: only if Priests live in fornication he alloweth Lay-Men to tell the Arch-Bishops, and if they will do nothing, then to withhold their duties and benefits till they amend. (But this Binnius noteth was but a temporary extraordinary concession, for the hatred that this Pope had to fornicating Clergy-Men.) But if they did but now and then lie with a woman by chance, and did not obstinately still keep them, they must not so trouble them.
§ 28. He made some constitutions for his old Church at Milan. Three thing are the summe of them and many other Councils. 1. Against Simonie. 2. Against the Clergies fornication (no Canons cured them of either of these.) 3. That no Lay-Man judge any Clerk for his crimes: only if Priests live in fornication he alloweth Lay-Men to tell the Arch-Bishops, and if they will do nothing, then to withhold their duties and benefits till they amend. (But this Binnius noteth was but a temporary extraordinary concession, for the hatred that this Pope had to fornicating Clergy-Men.) But if they did but now and then lie with a woman by chance, and did not obstinately still keep them, they must not so trouble them.
§ 29. CCCXLV. The foresaid Cadolus or Honorius 2d. was settled Pope by a Council at Basil, An. 1061. where, say some, many Simoniacal, incontinent, wicked Bishops decreed that no Pope should be made but out of Italy (which they called Paradise, that is, Lombardy.)
§ 29. CCCXLV. The foresaid Cadolus or Honorius 2d. was setled Pope by a Council at Basil, An. 1061. where, say some, many Simoniacal, incontinent, wicked Bishops decreed that no Pope should be made but out of Italy (which they called Paradise, that is, Lombardy.)