General History of the Christian Religion and Church Volume 7 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1852 edition. Excerpt: ...quis obnubilare desiderat, quod Deus clarificare disponit. Eo enim amplius percrebuere miracula, quo videbantur impiis studiosius occultanda. I John of Salisbury, ep. 287. Dubitatur a plurimis, anparsdomini papae, in qua stamus, de justitia niteretur, sed eam a crimine schismatis gloriosus martyr absolvit, qui si fautor esset schismatis nequaquam tantis miraculis coruscaret. He thinks he should have been very much surprised that the pope did not at once pronounce Thomas Becket a saint, unless he had remembered what was done in the Eoman senate on the report of Pilate, ne deitas Christi, cujus nomen erat Judaeis et gentibus pracdicandum, terrenae potestati videretur obnoxia et emendicatam dicerent infideles.--Sic ergo nutu divino arbitror evenisse, ut martyris hujus gloria nec decreto pontificis nec edicto principis attollatur, sed Christo praecipue auctore invalescat. 238 Arnold's Opinions Propagated. ever been able to gain during his lifetime. The king himself made a pilgrimage to his tomb, and there submitted to exercises of penance. Through the yielding of the emperor Frederic, to which he had been moved by the force of circumstances and by considerations of prudence, nothing in the relation of the two parties, --of which one defended a papal absolutism, requiring entire subjection of the states and churches; the other, the rights of independent state authority, --nothing of all this had been changed. The principles which had come under discussion in the controversies about investiture, which had been placed in a still clearer light and more widely diffused through the influence of Arnold of Brescia, and to the promotion of which the study of the Roman law, begun with so much zeal at the university of Bologna, had contributed, --these principles