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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 4
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.
There are in Bin. divers Fragments cited, as of the Tolet. Councils. One saith that Arch-Presbyters are under the Arch-Deacons, and yet have Curam animarum over all the Presbyters. Another determineth that there shall be but one Baptismal Church, which is there called, The Mother Church, with its Chapels, in the Limits assigned: And another distinguisheth of Offerings made at the Parish Church, and Offerings at the Altars; which showeth that then there were no Altars but where the Bishop was.
There are in Bin. divers Fragments cited, as of the Tolet. Councils. One saith that Arch-Presbyters are under the Arch-Deacons, and yet have Curam animarum over all the Presbyters. Another determineth that there shall be but one Baptismal Church, which is there called, The Mother Church, with its Chapels, in the Limits assigned: And another distinguisheth of Offerings made at the Parish Church, and Offerings at the Altars; which sheweth that then there were no Altars but where the Bishop was.
§. 48. XCVIII. Two Councils were held at Carthage about 401. The later about the Donatists.
§. 49. XCIX. An. 402. Was the Council Melevitan▪ about certain Bishops quarrels, and who should be the highest Bishop in Numidia.