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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
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P. 155. Binnius reproveth them for calling Cyprian Archbishop, and he proveth that Africa then had no Archbishop or Primate.
§ 57. CCXXII. An. 693. was another Toletan Council, called by King Egica: Before it the King writeth a Sermon for them, wherein he tells them, That every Parish that have twelve Families, must have their proper Governor: But if less, it must be part of another's charge.
§ 57. CCXXII. An. 693. was another Toletan Council, called by King Egica: Before it the King writeth a Sermon for them, wherein he tells them, That every Parish that have twelve Families, must have their proper Governor: But if less, it must be part of anothers charge.
§ 58. CCXXIII. An. 694. was another Toletan Council under the same King Egica: (One would wonder that the Legislative virtue of the Church should be continued to such fertility and multitude of Laws, as must follow if in all Countries there be every year a Council: How great must the Volumes of Laws be at last?1) Binnius in his Notes on this Council tell us, That though Paul would have the believing Husband or Wife stay with the Unbeliever, in hope of Conversion, yet many hundred years experience hath taught us the contrary, (that it tendeth rather to hurt than good) and therefore now it must be otherwise, and they must separate.
§ 58. CCXXIII. An. 694. was another Toletan Council under the same King Egica: (One would wonder that the Legislative vertue of the Church should be continued to such fertility and multitude of Laws, as must follow if in all Countries there be every year a Council: How great must the Volumes of Laws be at last?1