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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
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.
§. 58. CXXXVIII. Felix called 77 Bishops to Rome, on this occasion: ⟨p. 121⟩He sent his peremptory Letters to Acacius, Const. and some to the Emperor Zeno, by two Bishops, Mis•nus and Vitalis: The Emperor took away their Letters; and (not knowing then the Popes Sovereignty) laid them by the Heels, till he made them glad to Communicate with those Bishops that they came to Condemn: For this Faelix and his Bishops, cast them out of the Episcopal Office; and they presumed to excommunicate Acacius, as afore said, even with this Clause, Nunquam Anathematis vinculis exuendus: Never to be absolved from the Curse! What no Repentance, for one that was no Heretic! but falsely so called, for obeying the Emperor, in dealing gently with some Eutychians; were not this Council and Pope Novatians?
§. 58. CXXXVIII. Foel•x called 77 B•shops to Rome, on this occasion: ⟨p. 121⟩He sent his peremptory Letters to Acacius, Const. and some to the Emperour Zeno, by two Bishops, Mis•nus and Vitalis: The Emperour took away their Letters; and (not knowing then the Popes Soverainty) laid them by the Heels, till he made them glad to Communicate with those Bishops that they came to Condemn: For this Faelix and his Bishops, cast them out of the Episcopal Office; and they presumed to excommunicate Acacius, as afore said, even with this Clause, Nunquam Anathematis vinculis exuendus: Never to be absolved from the Curse! What no Repentance, for one that was no Heretick! but falsly so called, for obeying the Emperour, in dealing gently with some Eutychians; were not this Council and Pope Novatians?
§. 59. CXXXIX. Yet Ann. 487. The same Faelix is said in a Council of 38 Bishops, to decree Communion to the Lapsed, and Re-baptized, penitent Africans.