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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
§ 59. Epist. 23. He sends to his Legates to demand of the King of France,1 that every house do give a penny to St. Peter, if they take him for their Father and Pastor. It seemeth the Roman Peter must have money, Rule and Honour of all the world, though he cry it down in others.
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§ 60. Lib. 9. Ep. 1. He suspendeth the Arch-Bishop of Rouen in Normandy, from consecrating any Bishop or Priest, or Church, because he had not visited the Pope at Rome, when as men and women came to him from the remoter parts of the Earth; (The Pope loved much company, and loved not privacy so well as I do.) and because he had not sought his pallium; though he wrote submissively to him.
§ 61. Even this Pope Ep. 2. l. 9. Professeth to the King of Spain [that a Lye is a sin though it come from a pious intention for peace; but in Priests it is a kind of Sacrilege.] And if so, Priests had need to take heed that they Lye not, by swearing, subscribing, declaring or professing any falsehood though à Pope should command them.
§ 61. Even this Pope Ep. 2. l. 9. Professeth to the King of Spain [that a Lye is a sin though it come from a pious intention for peace; but in Priests it is a kind of Sacriledg.] And if so, Priests had need to take heed that they Lye not, by swearing, subscribing, declaring or professing any falshood though à Pope should command them.