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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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The Emperor wrote Letters to many Christian Princes and States to acquaint them with the Papal Injuries; and the Pope wrote his accusations of the Emperor and his own Justification. The Empire was presently all in Division. One part was for the Emperor, and another for the Pope: Most of the Bishops of Germany obeyed the Emperor, and some were against him, as excommunicate. Some Councils were for him, and some against him. And, as Abbas Urspurgensis said, they did so often swear and forswear according as Power and Interest moved, one time for the Emperor, and another against him, that Perjury was become a common thing both with the Bishops and the Laity. He that will see the many treatises that Learned men then wrote for the power of Princes against the Papal tyranny and rebellion may find them in the Voluminous Collections of Michael Goldastus de Monarchia.
The Emperor wrote Letters to many Christian Princes and States to acquaint them with the Papal Injuries; and the Pope wrote his accusations of the Emperor and his own Justification. The Empire was presently all in Division. One part was for the Emperor, and another for the Pope: Most of the Bishops of Germany obeyed the Emperor, and some were against him, as excommunicate. Some Councils were for him, and some against him. And, as Abbas Vrspurgensis said, they did so often swear and forswear according as Power and Interest moved, one time for the Emperor, and another against him, that Perjury was become a common thing both with the Bishops and the Laity. He that will see the many treatises that Learned men then wrote for the power of Princes against the Papal tyranny and rebellion may find them in the Voluminous Collections of Michael Goldastus de Monarchia.
The party that obeyed the Pope chose another to be Emperor, Rodulph Duke of Suevia: The Emperor requireth the Pope to Excommunicate Rodulph: He refuseth: The Emperor calleth a Council of Bishops at Brixia: They depose the Pope, and make Gibert of Ravenna Pope called Clement the 3d. who, saith Onuphrius, sate, 21 years, so long had they two Popes, at this 23d. Schism or doubling.