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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 2
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§. 35. XIV. Anno 266. They say there was another at Antioch against their Bishop Paulus Samosatenus, a gross Heretic: But he renounced his error in words, and for that time kept his place.
§. 35. XIV. Anno 266. They say there was another at Antioch against their Bishop Paulus Samosatenus, a gross Heretick: But he renounced his errour in words, and for that time kept his place.
§. 36. XV. Paulus returning to his Heresy and a bad life, Anno 272. another Council at Antioch deposed him; but he would not go out of the Bishops house, and the Emperor Aurelian a Heathen put him out.
§. 36. XV. Paulus returning to his Heresie and a bad life, Anno 272. another Council at Antio•h deposed him; but he would not go out of the Bishops house, and the Emperour Aurelian a Heathen put him out.
§. 37. XVI. Anno 303. The next Council was at Cirta in Numidia, Secundus Tigisitanus being chief and calling them. Here Secundus accused the Bishops one by one as Traditors (delivering the sacred books to be burnt in persecution to save themselves, which was then judged perfidiousness.) The Bishops partly excused, partly confessed it, and asked pardon; Till at last Secundus ready to judge them, accused a Bishop Purpurius of murdering his own Sisters Sons: who told him that he should not think to terrify him as he had done the rest; He had killed, and would kill those that make against him; and asked him whether he had not been a Traditor himself, and beginning to evince it, bid him not provoke him to tell the rest: Whereupon Secundus his Nephew told his Uncle, You see that he is ready to depart and make a Schism, and not he only but all the rest, and you hear what they say against you: And then they will join and pass sentence on you, and so you will remain the only Heretic (Hereticating went then by the Vote) Secudus was nonplussed, and asked two others, what it was best to do? And they agreed to leave them all to God, and so the Bishops kept their places. Augustin. cont. Crescon. l. 3. c. 26, 27.