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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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3. But why must this privilege extend to the Clergy only? Have not other Christians as much holy love, and spirituality, as most of them? And must Princes rule only Infidels?
3. But why must this priviledge extend to the Clergy only? Have not other Christians as much holy love, and spirituality, as most of them? And must Princes rule only Infidels?
Some suspect none as inclining to Popery, but those that take up some of their Doctrines of Transubstantiation, Purgatory, Images, &c. But they that on pretence of the raising of the Church, and defending its power, do first call the Clergy only the Church, and then seek to make themselves the Lords of Princes, by the pretences of an Excommunicating Power, and plead themselves from under them, and take it for their privileges to be free from subjection to them and their penal Laws, are doubtless leavened with that Popish Heresy, which hath done much of all the mischiefs, which the forecited History describeth.
Some suspect none as inclining to Popery, but those that take up some of their Doctrines of Transubstantiation, Purgatory, Images, &c. But they that on pretence of the raising of the Church, and defending its power, do first call the Clergy only the Church, and then seek to make themselves the Lords of Princes, by the pretences of an Excommunicating Power, and plead themselves from under them, and take it for their priviledges to be free from subjection to them and their penal Laws, are doubtless levened with that Popish Heresie, which hath done much of all the mischiefs, which the forecited History describeth.
§. 50. CXXXI. Besides some little contention at Alexandria, under Proterius, before he was murdered; the next in Binnius, is said to be at Angices (Andegavens•,) which saith over again some of their old Canons against Priests living with Women, and removing from place to place, and such like. And the Papists say that this Council was to contradict the Emperor Valentinians Law, and to vindicate the rights of the Church, as not being liable to Civil Judicatures, or under Kings.