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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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§ 63. Ep. 3. l. 9. The Pope upon the death of Rodulph, fearing the Emperors coming into Italy, pretendeth that now all men advised him to receive the Emperor, for peace, into his favour and mercy; saying, that almost all the Italians were for him, and that his Patroness Mathildis was counted mad by her own Subjects, who would not fight for her and him; and therefore sends to try whether he could get any help from others; charging them to see that the next chosen King be one true to St. Peter, and to that end sends them an Oath of obedience to Saint Peter and his Vicar which the King must take.
§ 64. Ep. 4. He employeth his agents to engage the Norman Duke Robert to help him with an Army.
And Ep. 5. His Legate having deposed all the Bishops of Normandy that refused to come to his Synod, he tells him that William King of England, and Duke of Normandy, though he was not so good as he should be, was more useful and better to the Church than other Kings, and therefore must not be offended,1 and therefore bids him restore the Bishops: and also to pardon some Soldiers, excommunicated for not paying tithes, because they must not lose the Soldiers.
And Ep. 5. His Legate having deposed all the Bishops of Normandy that refused to come to his Synod, he tells him that William King of England, and Duke of Normandy, though he was not so good as he should be, was more useful and better to the Church than other Kings, and therefore must not be offended,1 and therefore bids him restore the Bishops: and also to pardon some Soldiers, excommunicated for not paying tythes, because they must not lose the Soldiers.