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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 8
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.
§ 23. CCV. Another Council at Toletum, An. 655. called by K. Recessuinthus, (not the Pope,) made divers good Canons for Church-order; among which the tenth is, that because all the Canons oft made, could not keep Bishops and Priests from Lechery, they tried this additional way, to decree that all their Children begotten of their Servants, Maids, &c. should be uncapable of inheritance, and should live in continual servitude to the Church.
§ 23. CCV. Another Council at Toletum, An. 655. called by K. Recessuinthus, (not the Pope,) made divers good Canons for Church-order; among which the tenth is, that because all the Canons oft made, could not keep Bishops and Priests from Lechery, they tryed this additional way, to decree that all their Children begotten of their Servants, Maids, &c. should be uncapable of inheritance, and should live in continual servitude to the Church.
King Recaredus made a Law, that Bishops and Priests Concubines should be whipped with an hundred Stripes; and others, that they should be sold for Slaves.
King Recaredus made a Law, that Bishops and Priests Concubines should be whipt with an hundred Stripes; and others, that they should be sold for Slaves.
§ 24. CCVI. The King of France (Clodoveus) called his Bishops together at a Village called Clypiacum, and made a Sermon to them, and they applauded him.