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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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§ 178. The Epistles of Alexander are so full of Usurpation and Treason against Princes, that Binnius thought it best to omit them, and give you but the Titles: But those that concern England are in Mat. Paris, whom Binnius referreth you to, though he oft reproach him for speaking truth. Many are about Tho. Becket Archbishop of Canterbury, and against the Emperor and the King of England, forbidding the Coronation of Henry the 3d, and suspending Roger Archbishop of York for Crowning him, and such like, to show how he was King of Kings.
§ 178. The Epistles of Alexander are so full of Usurpation and Treason against Princes, that Binnius thought it best to omit them, and give you but the Titles: But those that concern England are in Mat. Paris, whom Binnius referreth you to, though he oft reproach him for speaking truth. Many are about Tho. Becket Archbishop of Canterbury, and against the Emperor and the King of England, forbidding the Coronation of Henry the 3d, and suspending Roger Archbishop of York for Crowning him, and such like, to shew how he was King of Kings.
§ 179. CCCCXXI. Of the Councils in Alexander's time recorded by Binnius, the first is An. 1160. at Papia called by the Emperor which voted ⟨p. 389⟩Victor Pope, and condemned Roland, called Alexander. The Letters of the Emperor and the Bishops tell us,1 that this Council consisted of innumerable Bishops and Abbots, and that the Emperor, after a good Speech, departed, and left all to their judgments: And that it was there proved by the Oaths of many Witnesses, that Victor was chosen by the full consent of the People and Clergy, and some Cardinals, and that, twelve days before Roland was chosen; and that Roland was present and contradicted not, but bid them obey him that was chosen: And that after being Chancellor he stole out of the City, and the major part of the Cardinals having before the death of the last Pope entered a Confederacy, to choose none but one of themselves that confederated (against the Emperor) they secretly chose Roland; the People and Clergy (a multitude subscribing) all desiring Victor: There or four Kings also consenting to accept him, when the Council declared him the only true Pope, and Roland a perfidious Usurper.