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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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6. Are not the chief Christian Kings now that are Papists (especially the King of France) of that which is called, The Henrician Heresy? And may they be so deposed?
6. Are not the chief Christian Kings now that are Papists (especially the King of France) of that which is called, The Henrician Heresie? And may they be so deposed?
§ 117.1 But one thing I desire may be noted of this Henrician Heresy, that the Emperor did not take away the old liberty of the Clergy and People in choosing their Bishops: Investiture was not Election, or any determining Nomination, but like our Inductions an after-consent, and a delivery of possession by a Staff and Ring, as may be seen in the form of Pope Paschal's Grant in Nauclerus, Gen. 38. p. 738. [We grant and confirm to you, that you may bestow Investiture by a Staff and Ring to the Bishops and Abbots in your Dominion, FREELY ELECTED WITHOUT FORCE AND SIMONY.] And it meddled not with the Presbyters, but was only a Negative power of freely chosen Prelates induction, who was still chosen by the inferior Clergy and the People.
§ 117.1 But one thing I desire may be noted of this Henrician Heresie, that the Emperor did not take away the old liberty of the Clergy and People in chusing their Bishops: Investiture was not Election, or any determining Nomination, but like our Inductions an after-consent, and a delivery of possession by a Staff and Ring, as may be seen in the form of Pope Pasohal's Grant in Nauclerus, Gen. 38. p. 738. [We grant and confirm to you, that you may bestow Investiture by a Staff and Ring to the Bishops and Abbots in your Dominion, FREELY ELECTED WITHOUT FORCE AND SIMONY.] And it medled not with the Presbyters, but was only a Negative power of freely chosen Prelates induction, who was still chosen by the inferior Clergy and the People.