Church-history of the government of bishops and their councils abbreviated including the chief part…

Here is all the Romans, ¹Clergy and People, the Emperor and many Princes,² and a Council of innumerable Prelates of Germany, Italy, &c. against the major Vote of an upstart sort of Men called Cardinals, that had confederated treacherously before: And yet the Roman Papacy is by Succession from this Man, that was no true Bishop himself.

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CCCCXXII, CCCCXXIII, CCCCXXIV, CCCCXXV. An. 1161. Alexander got a Council at Clermont, and another at Newmarket, and another at Belvacum; and An. 1164. another at Tours, to curse the Emperor and Pope Victor. The French taking his part, (and the English at last) kept up the Schism and Contention.

CCCCXXII, CCCCXXIII, CCCCXXIV, CCCCXXV. An. 1161. Alexander got a Council at Clermont, and another at Newmarket, and another at Belvacum; and An. 1164. another at Tours, to curse the Emperour and Pope Victor. The French taking his part, (and the English at last) kept up the Schism and Contention.

The Reader must take this notice by the way, that such Meetings as we call Parliaments, the Popish Historians often call Councils, that they may draw Men to think that what Parliaments did was done by Clergy Power; And when Lords,¹ Commons and Bishops met in the same Assembly, some called them Parliaments, and some Councils; And as Spelman saith, pag. 529. The same Assemblies were indeed mixed, and partly Civil or Royal (as he calleth them, because called by the King) and partly Ecclesiastical. But among the Romanists, Councils are greatly advanced by this ascribing to them the Acts and Power of Parliaments.