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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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§ 89. Another Decree of this Hereticating Council was, What days to keep the Spring and Summer Fasts on; and that none eat Cheese or Eggs in Lent. This is the Roman holiness, and way to Heaven.
Many Archbishops and several Cardinals were here Excommunicate also, for being for the Emperor against the Pope.
§ 90. CCCLXXI. But the Wars of Councils continuing, a Council was called by the Emperor at Mentz, where the deposition of Gregory, and the substitution of Clement (whose Legates were present) was confirmed, and the Condemners again condemned.
And so we have done with the Life, Letters and Councils of Hildebrand.
§ 91. Pope Gregory dying, Clement alone was Pope one year, and then the Italians chose Desiderius an Abbot, called Victor the 3d. This was the 23d Schism, or two Popes at once. Victor lived but a year and three months, and 24 days. Historians tell us of Famines, and dreadful Prodigies in those days. In that little time he raised an Army which beat the Saracens in Afric.