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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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§ 49. Lib. 7. Epist. 3. He saith [They that are Latins do all of them,1 except a very few, praise the cause of Henry, and defend it, and charge me with too much obstinacy and impiety against him.] And if the Latins did so, what did the Germans, French, &c? You see here that it was far from all the world that was subject to the Pope, and took his part in his usurpations.
§ 49. Lib. 7. Epist. 3. He saith [They that are Latines do all of them,1 except a very few, praise the cause of Henry, and defend it, and charge me with too much obstinacy and impiety against him.] And if the Latines did so, what did the Germans, French, &c? You see here that it was far from all the world that was subject to the Pope, and took his part in his usurpations.
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Epist. 4. He commandeth a General no more to fight against the King of Dalmatia, as belonging to St. Peter].
§ 50. Yet this Pope doth teach them the truth against deceitful penance or repentance, Lib. 7. Epist. 10. viz. [We say that it is a fruitless penance, when men remain in the same fault, or in the like, or in a worse or in one little less:1 He therefore that will worthily repent, must have recourse to the Original of his Faith, and be solicitous watchfully to keep that ⟨p. 359⟩