A General History of the Christian Church volume 5
A General History of the Christian Church volume 5
Priestley Joseph
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At the council of Coriftance, little having been done in the reformation of the church; cither, as the phrafe then was, in the head, or the members, Sec. II. THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. 17 mcmhcr^, it wras appointed that other councils fhould be held, at limes then fixed for that im- portant purpofe. When this time was come, fo that it could not be decently deferred, Martin V fummoncd one to meet at Pifa ; and, fendmg three legates, it was opened in the ufual forms in May A. D. 1423. But few prelates... arriving, and there being fome apprehenfion of a plague in that city, it was transferred to Sienna, where the firft fefTion commenced the 8th of November, and fome de- crees were made refpc6ling the Huffites. But be- fore they proceeded to any articles of reform, the pope, fearing left the ambaffador of the king of Arragon (hould give him fome difturbance abouf Benedi6l XIII, who was then living, and favoured by him, but chiefly dreading any regulations of reform, he put oft the council to another time and place, on the pretence of the fmall number of pre- lates attending, and the wars with which the em- pire was then diflra6led.
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