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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 9
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.
CHAP. IX.
Councils called about Images and some others.
§ 1. Pope Gregory the 2d is the Man that must set up Image-worship against all opposition,1 rebel against his lawful Sovereign, and confederate with other Princes to alienate the Western Empire, when the East was almost ruined before, and so to weaken the Christian Power, that the Turk might shortly win the Empire.
§ 1. POpe Gregory the 2d is the Man that must set up Image-worship against all opposition,1 rebel against his lawful Sovereign, and confederate with other Princes to alienate the Western Empire, when the East was almost ruined before, and so to weaken the Christian Power, that the Turk might shortly win the Empire.
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§ 2. To have recited all along as we went on, what new Ceremonies, Formalities and Orders were invented and brought in by the Popes, and how Doctrine and Practice grew corrupted, being a thing done already by many others, would have been tedious here, and besides the design of this writing, which is but to show how Prelates have used the Church by their contentions about JURISDICTION and HARD or AMBIGUOUS WORDS; and what hath been the work especially of General Councils. But we cannot tell you well the work of the following Councils, without telling somewhat of the occasion of the matter.