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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 6
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§. 47. But what did Rome all this while? It were too long to recite ⟨p. 117⟩their proper History: They were for the Council, and they had other kind of Conflicts: The Goths held them in Wars, and had conquered them, and Theodoric reigned there as King, and so they were broken off from the Empire: Arians ruled them, who yet if Salvian say true, did (after) shame the Orthodox in point of Temperance, Truth, and Justice.
§. 47. But what did Rome all this while? It were too long to recite ⟨p. 117⟩their proper History: They were for the Council, and they had other kind of Conflicts: The Goths held them in Wars, and had conquered them, and Theodorick reigned there as King, and so they were broken off from the Empire: Arians ruled them, who yet if Salvian say true, did (after) shame the Orthodox in point of Temperance, Truth, and Justice.
But besides their following greater Schisms, this Schism also did reach to them. Festus a Roman Senator was sent by Theodoric to the Emperor on an Embassy: which having done, he desired of the Emperor that Constantinople might keep the Festival days of Peter and Paul (which they did not before) as they did at Rome; and he prevailed: And he secretly assured the Emperor, that Anastasius Bishop of Rome would receive the Honoticon (to suspend the consenting to the Calcedon Council) and would subscribe it. When this Ambassador came home the Pope was dead. To make good his Word to the Emperor, he got a party to choose Laurentius Pope, who would receive the Honoticon: The People chose Symmachus their Bishop.1 And so there were two Popes settled, and the sedition continued three years, not without Slaughter, Rapines, and other Calamities: Nicephor. cap. 35. Theodoric an Arian, more righteous than the Popes, would not deprive them of their liberty of choice, but called a Synod, to judge which was the rightful Bishop, and upon their judgment confirmed Symmachus: But Laurentius loth to lose the prey, stirred up the People to Sedition, and thereupon was quite degraded. This was a beginning of Schisms at Rome.