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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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§ 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.
§ 46. Lib. 4. Epist. 28. He tells the Spaniards also that their Kingdom was St. Peter's property: But why did he trouble himself to lay ⟨p. 358⟩claim to particular Kingdoms? Would not his claim to all the world serve turn for the particulars?
Lib. 5. Epist. 4. He clameth the Isle of Corsica.