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A saint or a brute the certain necessity and excellency of holiness, &c. ...…
A saint or a brute the certain necessity and excellency of holiness, &c. ... / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed by R.W. for Francis Tyton, 1662
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Thus the Bishops of Rome, and of other Churches in Italy and the adjacent parts, submitted themselves (I think too soon) as soon as they perceived him to be conqueror, to Theodorious: and so they did to other conquerors. Sometimes, as the General Councils of Basil, Constance, &c. determined that a Council is above the Pope, and declared the contrary to be a damnable Heresy, and commanded the Bishops and people ⟨p. 171⟩to obey them against the Pope: so Senates and Parliaments and the Majority of the States men and Lawyers may tell the people that are unacquainted with such Law-cases, that in this or that they are bound to obey them, upon highest penalties, and that they shall receive to themselves condemnation if they resist them; and so may mislead such as intend nothing but to obey the higher powers for Conscience sake. And though the error and commands of Councils and Parliaments excuse not à tote an illiterate Laic that understandeth not those matters, yet surely à tanto it is some excuse.
Thus the Bishops of Rome, and of other Churches in Italy and the adjacent parts, submitted themselves (I think too soon) as soon as they perceived him to be conquerour, to Theodorious: and so they did to other conquerours. Sometimes, as the General Councils of Basil, Constance, &c. determined that a Council is above the Pope, and declared the contrary to be a damnable Heresie, and commanded the Bishops and people ⟨p. 171⟩to obey them against the Pope: so Senates and Parliaments and the Majority of the States men and Lawyers may tell the people that are unacquainted with such Law-cases, that in this or that they are bound to obey them, upon highest penalties, and that they shall receive to themselves condemnation if they resist them; and so may mislead such as intend nothing but to obey the higher powers for Conscience sake. And though the errour and commands of Councils and Parliaments excuse not à tote an illiterate Laicke that understandeth not those matters, yet surely à tanto it is some excuse.