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A26898 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 ... Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691. 1680 (1680) Wing B1224; ESTC R229528 479,189 470

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Oath of obedience to Saint Peter and his Vicar which the King must take § 64. Ep. 4. He employeth his agents to engage the Norman Duke Robert to help him with an Army And Ep. 5. His Legate having deposed all the Bishops of Normandy that refused to come to his Synod he tells him that William King of England and Duke of Normandy though he was not so good as he should be was more useful and better to the Church than other Kings and therefore must not be offended and therefore bids him restore the Bishops and also to pardon some Soldiers excommunicated for not paying tythes because they must not lose the Soldiers Ep. 8. He writeth to the Duke of Venice by all means to avoid all excommunicate persons and their friendship and favour lest they came into the snares of the same damnation For Ana●hema's were the arms by which he subdued Emperors and was to do his work The like to others in other Epistles And Ep. 12. He brought one Count Bertran to swear him fidelity and to give him all his Countrey and honour as Earl of Provence and this for the pardon of his own and his Fathers sins § 65. Ep. 14. He congratulates to the Kings of the Visigoths their conversion to Christianity but tells them they must oft send to Rome for further instruction How frequently he made Arch-Bishops and Bishops travel to him out of other Kingdoms when his Legates wronged them many other Epistles shew Ep. 17. The Norman Duke Robert acquainteth the Pope with a Victory which he had got He returneth him this answer that he had but done his duty and now as it was Saint Peter that had given him this victory if he would not make him angry he must now be thankful to Saint Peter and remember what he owed him to help him against the Emperor Henry and all his other enemies § 66. Ep. 20. He writes to the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury that he had shewed himself guilty of disobedience which is as Idolatry in that he had not travelled to Rome to visit the Pope when he commanded him and tells him that if he come not by All-Saints day next he shall be deposed for many weak men that could scarce rise out of their beds came from other much farther Countreys and he should lose Saint Peter ' s grace if he failed must they do so also from the Antipodes Ep. 22. He tells the Count of Angiers or Anjou that he should have obeyed the sentence of his Bishop though it was unjust And so every wicked Prelates power over Princes and all others shall be absolute He flattered our King William the Conqueror more than other Kings but ep 2. l. 11. He complaineth of his punishing a Bishop telling him that God taketh them as the apple of his eye and saith Touch not mine anointed and though they are naught and very unworthy they must be honoured and being called Gods men must not meddle with them Ep. 1. Append. Bin. p. 1278 he tells Lanfrank Arch-Bishop of Canterbury how far the Church was from purity in his days viz. that The Bishops and such as should be Pastors of Souls do with insatiable desire hunt after the Glory of the World and the pleasures of the flesh And do not only themselves confound all things that are holy and religious but by their example draw their Subjects to all wickedness And that to let them alone is unlawful and to resist them how difficult So much of the Epistles of Greg. 7th who seemeth to be much more against vice than his predecessors for many ages but more for tyrannical usurpation and rebellion than ever any that was before him And if the better sort of them be such what may be expected from them § 67. CCCLIII An. 1074. In a Council at Rome Priests were forbid marrying and all that were married commanded to put away their Wives The Arch-Bishop of Mentz trying to do the same in Germany the whole party of the Clergy saith Lambert an 1074 raged against it and called the Pope a downright Heretick that opposed Christs Law who forbad putting away Wives except for fornication saying all men cannot receive this saying and as driving men to fornication They went from the Synod and some were for casting cut the Archbishop of Mentz and putting him to death But he spake them fair But the Pope went on § 68. CCCLIV. In a Synod at Genesius the Popes Legate and Anselm Lucens excommunicated many that had been against Anselm whereupon the whole City was enraged and forsook Mathildis and joyned with the Emperor and expelled the Bishop one Peter a Canon leading them § 69. CCCLV. an 1075. a Council at Rome excommunicated five of the Emperors Family unless they travelled to Rome and made satisfaction It excommunicated Philip King of France unless he satisfied the Nuntii of the Pope It suspended the Arch-bishop of Breme the Bishop of Strasburg the Bishop of Spire the Bishop of Bamberge and in Lombardie the Bishop of Papia the Bishop of Turine the Bishop of Placentine and also Robert Duke of Apulia and Robert de Roritello c. § 70. an 1075. Was the foresaid Synod at Mentz where the Arch-Bishop seeking to bring the Clergy to obey the Pope in putting away their Wives was fain to put it off to save his life from the Clergies rage The English Councils I omit referring you to Spelman of which one deposed Wulstan they say injuriously c. § 71. CCCLVI. an 1076. A Council at Worms sentenced the Pope deposed Two Bishops awhile refused consent but at last yielded And they sent to the Pope that thenceforth all that he did as Pope was void § 72. CCCLVII Hereupon the Pope calls a Council at Rome which excommunicated all the German Bishops that deposed him and the Bishops of Lombardy as conspiring against St. Peter and many French Bishops And with them the Emperor Henry and deposed him quantum inse from all his dominions and absolved his Subjects from their oaths as aforesaid § 73. CCCLVIII The excommunicate Bishops had a Council at Papia where they retorted the Popes Anathema on himself and excommunicate him § 74 CCCLIX The Pope calls another Council at Rome where the Arch-Bishops of Millan and Ravenna the Antipope are excommunicate and the Emperor's cause and party again condemned § 75. CCCLX Another Synod at Rome an 1078. decreed divers things for defence of the Clergies priviledges And it is observable that to that day the old Canons were in force for nulling all ordinations not made by the Common Consent of the Clerks and People Ordinationes quae interveniente pretio vel precibus vel obsequio alicujus personae ea intentione impenso vel quae non Communi consensu Cleri populi secundum Canonicas sanctiones fiunt ab his ad quos consecratio pertinet non comprobantur infirmas irritas esse dijudicamus quoniam qui taliter ordinantur non per ostium id est
he caused some Fellows so to cut and mangle the Face of the Pope that he would never after be seen abroad but kept close till he dyed which was after Three Years This Otho resolved to Revenge on Albericus And also the War between Hugo and Albericus broke out again Platina saith That Hugo was about to Revenge the Pope but then Dyed § 42. A Synod was at Narbon to end the Contention of two Bishops about the Extent of their Diocesses and Jurisdiction § 43. CCCXI. If yet you perceive not the sad State of the Church by Men's striving for Church-Dignities a Council at Soissons Anno 940. will tell you more You heard before how the Earl of Aquitane had got his Son to be made Arch-Bishop of Rhemes The Child in coats was but Five Years old It happened that he was put out again for his Infancy or Non-Age and Artaldus a Monk chosen in his stead This Council of Bishops was to decide the C●●e between the two Arch-Bishops The Objection against one was his Infancy and his Father 's ill means to bring him in The Objection against the other was Perjury He had sworn that he would never accept an Arch-Bishoprick Alas Must the Church of France be Headed by one of these an Infant or a Perjured Monk The Synod cast out the Perjured Monk and judged the Seat to the Infant as being lawfully Chosen Power made it a Lawful Call And the Bishops went to Rhemes and Consecrated him § 44. In the Year 920. the French Nobles by consent at Soissons had Revolted from King Charles because he took Haganon a Man of low of Quality into his Privy-Council and made him Great Herveus Bishop of Rhemes had partly healed this Breach But Anno 922. it broke out again and the Nobles chose Robert King and Herveus Consecrated him But this Rebellion was their Ruin Three Years after dyeth Herveus And the next Year Robert Fighting against Charles was slain at Soissons yet his Army conquered the King's Shortly after Rodolph Duke of Burgundy is called in by the Nobles and made King as if the Kingdom had been void Charles on pretence of a Treaty is led by Heribert to a Castle and thence carryed to Perone where he dyed Anno 929. leaving a Son Lewis to Fight for the Kingdom And when Charles was in Prison Hugo rejected Rodulph and called Lewis out of England to be King Anno 936. But Hugo and Heribert would be his Masters and gave him little Quiet Heribert dyeth miserably and Repenteth Hugo Domineering the King craveth Aid of Otho out of Germany against him But shortly dyeth himself by a Disease got by a Fall in Hunting a Wolf Lotharius his Son succeedeth him In his Third Year Hugo the Great Duke of Orleance dyeth and Lotharius the King Anno 986. His Son Ludovicus succeeded who dyed Childless Anno 987. And in him ended the Line of Charles the Great For Charles Duke of Loraine that was next was by the Treachery of a Bishop taken by Hugo Capet the Son of the fore-said Duke Hugo and imprisoned to Death And this Hugo got Possession of the Crown So much briefly on the By of these Matters that they after interrupt us not too much See Dion Petav. lib. 8. c. 16. § 45. Marinus 2. alias Martin 3. is made Pope Anno 943. and Reigned three Years and some Months the common Time of Popes in that Age. In his time Artaldus strove again for the Seat of Rhemes § 46. CCCXII When Bishops would needs be Princes they taught Princes to resolve to be Bishops And as Heribert did at Rhemes so did the Emperor at Constantinople put in a Patriark Trypho a Monk on condition that he should hold it but till his own Son Theophylact came to Age. When the time came Trypho would not Resigne A Council is called where Bin. ex Curopal tells you the State of that Church als● as too like the Western The Council being met Tryphon makes a Speech to them and saith That his Adversaries that had a mind to cast him out gave the reason that he knew not Letters But that they might all see that this was false and that he could Write and Read he call'd for Pen and Paper and having been taught thus much before wrote his Name thus Tryphon by the Mercy of God Arch-Bishop of Constantinople New Rome and Vniversal Patriark for that was then the Title The Emperor receiving the Paper it ●eems knowing that he could not Read writeth over head Knowing my self Vnworthy I Resigne the Throne to any that will And so sent the Paper to the Council and the Bishops wise and Good Men you must suppose Dethron'd Tryphon The Seat staid void five Months till Theophylact came to Age who then was chosen § 47. Anno 946. Agapetus the Second is made Pope in a time when Wars between the Hungarians and Henry Bavaria Berengarius and Otho c. made Miserable the Countries and Ignorance and Ambition the Churches § 48. CCCXIII. A Council at Virdun in France again tryed the Cause between the fore-said Infant and the Perjured Bishops Hugo and Artald and they undid what the last had done and Deposed Hugo and gave the Seat to Artald Yet we have not done with Doing and Vndoing For Pope Agapete now took Hugo's Part and wrote to the Bishops of France and Germany that Hugo that was in Possession was to be kept there But the Papists say he mistook by Hugo's Mis-information § 49. CCCXIV Anno 948. Another Council at Mosome was called for the same Business Hugo would not come in but sent the Pope's Letters which being not Canonical but his bare Command they rejected them cast out and Excommunicated Hugo till the next General-Council § 50. CCCXV. Anno 948. A General-Council of France and Germany is called at Engelenheim for the same Cause almost all France being disquieted about two Mens striving who should be the Great Arch-Bishop The Pope's Legate Marinus proved Hugo's Letters false and Hugo was Excommunicated and Artald setled But the Presence of two Kings Ludovicus and Otho did much there-to The Bishops thence removed to Triers called another Council where they judged for King Ludovicus against Duke Hugo and Excommunicated some Bishops Ordained by Bishop Hugo that was Ordained in his Child-hood And another Council at Rome confirmed these things § 51. Now cometh the Famous Pope Iohn the Twelfth the Son of Prince Albericus the Son of the Famous Whore A Child too Saith Baronius and Binius p. 1060. Quanquam hiuc Legitima aetas aliaque omnia deessent quae inlegitimo Pontifice requiruntur tamen accedente postea consensu totius Cleri visum est hunc potius esse Tolerandum quam Ecclesiam Schismate aliquo quod alioquin exortum fuisset dividendam He wanted Natural and Moral Endowments even All Things necessary to a Legitimate Pope say they And yet the After-Consent of the Clergy made him Tolerable c. Qu. 1.