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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Two Councils at London, partly against the Clergies Incontinence, and against Sodomy, and partly to depose several married Priests, I pass by.
§ 120. CCCLXXXVI. Fluentius, Bishop of Florence, published that Anti-christ was come. 1Whether he told them who he was I know not: But An. 1105. A Council of 340 Bishops was there called, to try him for that dangerous doctrine; and finding that Prodigies and Calamities drew him to believe it, they chid him as a weak Man, and warned him to talk so dangerously no more, (you may know why.)
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§ 121. CCCLXXXVII. When the young Henry began his Rebellion against his Father, he called An. 1105. a Council at Quintilineburg, where he solemnly called God and Angels to witness, that it was not out of desire to Reign that he did what he did, nor to depose his Father, but to restore them to the Obedience of the Church, lamenting his Father's obstinacy against it: And he profest his Obedience to the Pope, and drew divers revolted Archbishops to do the like.