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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.
§ 59. CCXXIV. Even to those days the number of Pagans and Infidels in most Countries was the greatest, and the care of good men was to convert them: (And therefore we read still of so many baptized at age.) A Council at Utrecht decreed (Willebrood (or Willifrid) and Suibert being Leaders) that the best Preachers should be sent from the Neighbour Churches to convert the Heathens, (that was better work, than striving who should be chief, or raging about hard words.)
§ 59. CCXXIV. Even to those days the number of Pagans and Infidels in most Countries was the greatest, and the care of good men was to convert them: (And therefore we read still of so many baptized at age.) A Council at Utrecht decreed (Willebrood (or Willifrid) and Suibert being Leaders) that the best Preachers should be sent from the Neighbor Churches to convert the Heathens, (that was better work, than striving who should be chief, or raging about hard words.)
§ 60. CCXXV. A Synod at Aquileia, An. 698. condemned the 5th General Council at Constantinople, 1for condemning the tria Capitula of the Council of Calcedon. (O what Concord Councils caused!)
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§ 61. Pope Sergius refusing to own the Council of Constant. at Trul. under Justinian 2d, the Emperor commanded that he should be brought Prisoner to Constantinople. The Soldiers of Ravenna (Sergius having paid them the 100 l. of Gold) hearing of it, rose up and rescued him, and made the Emperor's Officer in fear beg for his life. By such Obedience Rome kept up.
§ 61. Pope Sergius refusing to own the Council of Constant. at Trul. under Iustinian 2d, the Emperor commanded that he should be brought Prisoner to Constantinople. The Soldiers of Ravenna (Sergius having paid them the 100 l. of Gold) hearing of it, rose up and rescued him, and made the Emperor's Officer in fear beg for his life. By such Obedience Rome kept up.