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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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§ 47. That it may appear that the presumptuous usurpations of the Pope were not consented to by many Bishops, he oft complaineth that many Bishops of France, Italy, and Germany were against him: He abundantly chideth and threateneth several particular Bishops for resisting and disobeying him. Lib. 6. Epist. 4. he writeth thus to the Bishop of Liege. [Having read the Letters of your Brotherhood, we did not a little wonder that you wrote that which became you not, in reverence of the Apostolic seat: but that you did with biting invective reprehend me, for absolving your Parishioner, that lately came to us; as if the Apostolic seat had not authority to bind and absolve whomsoever we will and wheresoever we will: Know therefore that we are greatly moved against your temerity.]
§ 47. That it may appear that the presumptuous usurpations of the Pope were not consented to by many Bishops, he oft complaineth that many Bishops of France, Italy, and Germany were against him: He abundantly chideth and threatneth several particular Bishops for resisting and disobeying him. Lib. 6. Epist. 4. he writeth thus to the Bishop of Liege. [Having read the Letters of your Brotherhood, we did not a little wonder that you wrote that which became you not, in reverence of the Apostolick seat: but that you did with biting invective reprehend me, for absolving your Parishioner, that lately came to us; as if the Apostolick seat had not authority to bind and absolve whomsoever we will and wheresoever we will: Know therefore that we are greatly moved against your temerity.]
Indeed one of the tricks of the Papal ambition was to be the Asylum of all wicked fugitives that fled from Church justice in all Countries near them; to show favour to all condemned sinners that would but fly to Rome, and appeal to them from the Justice of their Pastors, yea, and of their Princes too, which made their friends to be rather many than good.
Indeed one of the tricks of the Papal ambition was to be the Asylum of all wicked fugitives that fled from Church justice in all Countries near them; to shew favour to all condemned sinners that would but fly to Rome, and appeal to them from the Justice of their Pastors, yea, and of their Princes too, which made their friends to be rather many than good.