Church-history of the government of bishops and their councils abbreviated including the chief part…

§ 6. In these times the Pope met with an English Bishop Wilfrid, who extraordinarily flattered and adored him, and he accordingly made him Bishop of Mentz, and his great agent (even about this foresaid English Council which was to set up Church-Images:) and recommended him to many Christian Princes: And why was all this? and what was his rare merit? He took this Oath to the Pope (Bin. p. 178) [In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour, in the Reign of Leo the great Emperor &c. I Boniface, Bishop by the Grace of God, do Promise to thee, Peter, Prince of the Apostles, and to thy Vicar Pope Gregory and his Successors, by the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, the inseparable Trinity, and this most Holy Body of thine, that I will exhibit all faith and purity of holy Catholic faith, and in unity of the same faith, God operating, will persist, in which all the salvation of Christians is proved undoubtedly to consist; and will no way consent, whoever persuadeth me, against the unity of the common and universal Church, but, as I said, will exhibit my faith and purity and concourse to thee and to the Profits of thy Church, to whom by the Lord the Power of binding and ⟨p. 208⟩loosing is given, and to thy aforesaid Vicar and his Successors in all things, &c.]

§ 6. In these times the Pope met with an English Bishop Wilfrid, who extraordinarily flattered and adored him, and he accordingly made him Bishop of Mentz, and his great agent (even about this foresaid English Council which was to set up Church-Images:) and recommended him to many Christian Princes: And why was all this? and what was his rare merit? He took this Oath to the Pope (Bin. p. 178) [In the name of the Lord Iesus Christ our Saviour, in the Reign of Leo the great Emperour &c. I Boniface, Bishop by the Grace of God, do Promise to thee, Peter, Prince of the Apostles, and to thy Vicar Pope Gregory and his Successors, by the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, the inseparable Trinity, and this most Holy Body of thine, that I will exhibite all faith and purity of holy Catholick faith, and in unity of the same faith, God operating, will persist, in which all the salvation of Christians is proved undoubtedly to consist; and will no way consent, whoever perswadeth me, against the unity of the common and universal Church, but, as I said, will exhibite my faith and purity and concourse to thee and to the Profits of thy Church, to whom by the Lord the Power of binding and ⟨p. 208⟩