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

§ 56. Epist. 11. When some French Preachers had revived Religion in Sweden; the Pope, desirous to reap where they had sowed, sends to the King of Sweden, to tell him his joy; and that what the French taught them they received from Rome, and to desire him to send one of his Bishops to Rome, to acquaint him with their customs, and to receive his Laws and Mandates. You see by what means Rome was raised.

§ 56. Epist. 11. When some French Preachers had revived Religion in Sweden; the Pope, desirous to reap where they had sowed, sends to the King of Sweden, to tell him his joy; and that what the French taught them they recieved from Rome, and to desire him to send one of his Bishops to Rome, to acquaint him with their customs, and to receive his Laws and Mandates. You see by what means Rome was raised.

Epist. 15. A Bishop gave up his Bishopric: The Pope chides him and commands him to a Monastery; Rather than do so, he returneth to his seat again: The Pope chargeth him with the Idololatriae scelus the Crime of Idolatry, for not obeying him; and writes to them not to receive him or be ruled by him, as ever they loved the Grace of God and St. Peter.

Epist. 15. A Bishop gave up his Bishoprick: The Pope chides him and commands him to a Monastery; Rather than do so, he returneth to his seat again: The Pope chargeth him with the Idololatriae scelus the Crime of Idolatry, for not obeying him; and writes to them not to recieve him or be ruled by him, as ever they loved the Grace of God and St. Peter.

The like he doth, Epist. 16. by the disobedient Bishop of Narbon, and Epist. 17. by the disobedient Arch Bishop of Rhemes, and Epist. 18. 19, 20. of the same; and all this in St. Peter's name. Yea Epist. 20. he requireth the King of France (Philip) to join against the Arch-bishop of Rhemes as excommunicate, as ever he would have St. Peter's Grace, because his Kingdom and his Soul were in St. Peter's power. And it is no