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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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Yet Alexander hath not got possession of Rome it self, so far was he from being received by all the world; and so low did he condescend as to offer the Citizens, [That if they would receive him, he would come in peace, and meddle with nothing but Divine matters, 1leaving to them the care of secular things: And when they would not grant him this much, he went to Signia.] Was this man truly the Bishop of Rome, that had no more of the Citizens consent so much as to dwell among them? There he Canonizeth the Archbishop of Canterbury, Tho. Becket, for a Saint. The Emperor entereth Italy, and taketh many Cities, but the Venetians owning the Pope, and he being wearied with Wars, at Papia treateth of a Peace. But this not taking, the Emperor shortly returned with another Army into Italy, but was so hard put to it by the Millanois and others in one fight, that he narrowly escaped death himself. This one loss made the Nobles that followed him say, That they suffered this, because they fought unlawfully against the Church; and if he made not his peace presently with the Pope, they would go home: So that the Emperor was forced to submit to the Pope, for fear of being forsaken by his Subjects and Soldiers. At Venice they met, and the Emperor kissing the Pope's feet, credible Historians say,2 That the Pope trod on his Neck scornfully, and profanely repeating the words of the Psalm, [Thou shalt tread on the Lion and Adder, &c. Ps. 91. 13.) But Baronius and Binnius will not believe this, though as Fowlis noteth, p. 261. it is recorded by Ciaconius, Mason. and abundance more of their own Historians, and preserved in the Archives of the Library at Venice, and the Picture of the Story hanged publicly in the Senate House.
Yet Alexander hath not got possession of Rome it self, so far was he from being received by all the world; and so low did he condescend as to offer the Citizens, [That if they would receive him, he would come in peace, and meddle with nothing but Divine matters, 1leaving to them the care of secular things: And when they would not grant him this much, he went to Signia.] Was this man truly the Bishop of Rome, that had no more of the Citizens consent so much as to dwell among them? There he Canonizeth the Archbishop of Canterbury, Tho. Becket, for a Saint. The Emperor entereth Italy, and taketh many Cities, but the Venetians owning the Pope, and he being wearied with Wars, at Papia treateth of a Peace. But this not taking, the Emperor shortly returned with another Army into Italy, but was so hard put to it by the Millanois and others in one fight, that he narrowly escaped death himself. This one loss made the Nobles that followed him say, That they suffered this, because they fought unlawfully against the Church; and if he made not his peace presently with the Pope, they would go home: So that the Emperor was forced to submit to the Pope, for fear of being forsaken by his Subjects and Soldiers. At Venice they met, and the Emperor kissing the Pope's feet, credible Historians say,