Church-history of the government of bishops and their councils abbreviated including the chief part…

These are put by Bin. among Gregory's Epistles, p. 1196. as the Popes Dictates. If I had not translated them from such an unquestioned Author that followeth Baronius, some would have thought they had been but the forgeries of some Protestant accuser, and that the Popes have no such tenets. What one is here that is not false? and how many of them are horridly arrogant? The reading of them would tempt a doubting man to think that the Pope is the Eldest Son of the Prince of Pride, exalting himself above all that is called God, and arrogating Christ's prerogatives, and therefore Antichrist. If any would know what Popery is; A great part of the description is here given you by their greatest Pope himself, and by their chief Historians.

These are put by Bin. among Gregory's Epistles, p. 1196. as the Popes Dictates. If I had not translated them from such an unquestioned Author that followeth Baronius, some would have thought they had been but the forgeries of some Protestant accuser, and that the Popes have no such tenents. What one is here that is not false? and how many of them are horridly arrogant? The reading of them would tempt a doubting man to think that the Pope is the Eldest Son of the Prince of Pride, exalting himself above all that is called God, and arrogating Christ's prerogatives, and therefore Antichrist. If any would know what Popery is; A great part of the description is here given you by their greatest Pope himself, and by their chief Historians.

§ 45. Much of his 4th Book of Epistles is to require Princes, Prelates, and People to forsake the Emperor and choose another, and to excommunicate all that will communicate with him: yet in his 11th. Epist. he reciteth himself, how lamentably with tears, three days in the frost barefoot, he begged for pardon, and how the compassionate People thought the Pope hard-hearted and tyrannical for not yielding; and that at last two Ladies and an Abbot overcame him to absolve him.

§ 45. Much of his 4th Book of Epistles is to require Princes, Prelates, and People to forsake the Emperor and choose another, and to excommunicate all that will communicate with him: yet in his 11th. Epist. he reciteth himself, how lamentably with tears, three dayes in the frost barefoot, he begged for pardon, and how the compassionate People thought the Pope hard-hearted and tyrannical for not yielding; and that at last two Ladyes and an Abbot overcame him to absolve him.