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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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From this Council the Pope sent▪ Rodulph a Crown with this inscription— Petra dedit Petro Petrus diadema Rodulpho. But all this was but as Balaam's attempt; It destroyed not Henry, nor saved the life of Rodulph, that was after killed.
Sect. 80. CCCLXIII. An. 1080. The Emperor called a Council at Brixia which deposed Gregory as [a false monk, the pestilent Prince of all villainy, the invader of the Roman Seat, never chosen of God, impudently intruding himself by fraud and money, subverting all Church-order, perturbing the Kingdom of a Christian Empire; designing the death of Soul and Body to a quiet Christian Emperor: defending a perjured King; sowing discord where there was concord, and strife, where there was peace, scandals among brethren, divorces between Husband and Wife, and shaking all that seemed to be in quietness among godly men; a proud preacher of Sacrilege and flames, defending perjuries and murders, questioning the Catholic doctrine of Christs body and blood, an old Disciple of Berengarius *a follower of divinations and dreams a manifest Conjurer, possessed with a divining evil Spirit, and so swerving from the true Faith.] And they made Guibert Pope in his stead (as was aforesaid.)
Sect. 80. CCCLXIII. An. 1080. The Emperor called a Council at Brixia which deposed Gregory as [a false monk, the pestilent Prince of all villanie, the invader of the Roman Seat, never chosen of God, impudently intruding himself by fraud and money, subverting all Church-order, perturbing the Kingdom of a Christian Empire; designing the death of Soul and Body to a quiet Christian Emperour: defending a perjured King; sowing discord where there was concord, and strife, where there was peace, scandals among brethren, divorces between Husband and Wife, and shaking all that seemed to be in quietness among godly men; a proud preacher of Sacriledge and flames, defending perjuries and murders, questioning the Catholick doctrine of Christs body and blood, an old Disciple of Berengarius *