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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 7
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The 11th Canon saith, That they found that in many Churches of Spain, men filthily and not regularly did Penance, that they might sin as oft as they would, and be as oft reconciled by the Priests, &c. Many reforming Canons were here made. There were 67 Subscribers besides the King, and of divers Cities two Bishops, which was unusual.
§ 56. CXCIV. (Passing by a meeting at Rome) Another Council at Narbon was held by Recaredus, who brought over the Goths from Arianism.
§ 56. CXCIV. (Passing by a meeting at Rome) Another Council at Narbon was held by Recaredus, who brought over the Goths from Arrianism.
§ 57. The Emperor Mauritius, though a great and excellent person, was ruined by the mad and uncurable mutinies of his Soldiers, and at last, with his Family, cruelly murdered by Phocas, one of his Captains; a terrible warning to Princes not to trust too much to Armies.
§ 58. All this while the opposers of the Calcedon Council kept up, and were divided in the East into many Parties among themselves: Among others, the great Peripatetic Johan. Philoponus was their most learned Defender, writing with such subtlety, that the Natures really two, were to be called One Compound Nature, as the Soul and Body of a man are, as (saith Nicephorus) was not easy to be answered (by which, how much of the Controversie was de Nomine & de Notione Logicâ, let the Reader further judge;) he that will see some of his words, may read them in Niceph. l. 18. c. 45, 47, 48. his Notions made men call him a Tritheite.