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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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Pag. 1254. in Bin. There is an Oath that Robert Duke of Apulia, Calabria and Sicily to be true to the Pope, and defend him as holding all these from him; and there is the Popes grant of them to him, laying claim also to his other dominions; the denial of which he patiently beareth at the present.
Pag. 1254. in Bin. There is an Oath that Robert Duke of Apulia, Calabria and Sicily to be true to the Pope, and defend him as holding all these from him; and there is the Popes grant of them to him, laying claim also to his other dominions; the denyal of which he patiently beareth at the present.
§ 52. But lest you think that at least the Kingdom of Spain was fast, all this while to the Church of Rome, Lib. 8. Epist. 2. He writeth thus himself. [By the Letters of my Legate Richard Abbot of Marseilles you may know how great impiety is gone out of your Monastery (of Cluny) by the presumption of Robert a Monk, who imitating Simon Magus, feareth not to rise up against the Authority of St. Peter, with all the craft of his malignity, 1and to reduce by his suggestion into their old error an hundred thousand men, who by our diligence began to return to the right way:] But he hopes that the Abbot thinks as he, for the honour of the Roman Church. He chargeth the Abbot to cast out this man that had so endangered Spain, adding [And by your Letters diligently acquaint the King who is deceived by his fraud, that he hath greatly provoked St. Peter's wrath and indignation against him, and his grievous Revenge against him and his Kingdom unless he repent, because he undecently ⟨p. 360⟩handled a Legate of the Roman Church, and believed falsehood rather than truth. Of which that he may worthily make satisfaction to God and St. Peter, as he hath disgraced our Legate, so let him by due humility and condign Reverence, make himself commendable and devout. For we think meet to signify to him by you, that we will excommunicate him if he correct not his fault,2