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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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How frequently he made Arch-Bishops and Bishops travel to him out of other Kingdoms when his Legates wronged them, many other Epistles show.
How frequently he made Arch-Bishops and Bishops travel to him out of other Kingdoms when his Legates wronged them, many other Epistles shew.
Ep. 17. The Norman Duke, Robert, acquainteth the Pope with a Victory which he had got: He returneth him this answer, that he had but done his duty and now as it was Saint Peter that had given him this victory, if he would not make him angry, he must now be thankful to Saint Peter, and remember what he owed him, to help him against the Emperor, Henry, and all his other enemies.
§ 66. Ep. 20. He writes to the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury that he had showed himself guilty of disobedience which is as Idolatry in that he had not travelled to Rome to visit the Pope when he commanded him; and tells him that if he come not by All-Saints day next he shall be deposed; for many weak men that could scarce rise out of their beds, came from other much farther Countries: and he should lose Saint Peter's grace if he failed (must they do so also from the Antipodes?)
§ 66. Ep. 20. He writes to the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury that he had shewed himself guilty of disobedience which is as Idolatry in that he had not travelled to Rome to visit the Pope when he commanded him; and tells him that if he come not by All-Saints day next he shall be deposed; for many weak men that could scarce rise out of their beds, came from other much farther Countreys: and he should lose Saint Peter's grace if he failed (must they do so also from the Antipodes?)