and their Councils abridged. 315 quitefrom theAltar to the doors : the Walls not being able to [land, when the Chief Cardinal Door was fhak,en with the Earthquake offogreat a Villany. ¢. so. But here the Authors calling us Novatores (as if fuch Popes were of glorious Antiquity) are hard put to it to Vindicate againft us thePopes infallibility ! And how do they do it ? Why sft. They fay that all that Stephen did againfl Formofus, a manflricken with Madnefs, did it fulfilling the perfwafion ofhis boyling Rage. But in the lawful ufe ofhis Papal Authori- ty, he defined nothing againft Faith orgood manners: For the Bithops that werefor this Caufe called to the Council, and the Presbyters not unlike, to Stephen himfelf, did profecute Formofus with thefame hatred and there- forepronounced thatSentenceagainft him,which theyforeknewwouldbe pleafing to a man [mittenwithFury : fo that we confefs violent Tyranny, bolt no Er - roar in Faith defined orapproved by him, Lawfully ;Ting his Papal Authority : Andyet it were noprejudice to the Papal Seat, if wegrant, that afalfePope, not lawfully Chofen, but invading and obtruded, did err in alferting Articles of Faith. Thus the Author. Anf. s. But if you grant this, isnot your Succef!-son interrupted ? 2. And was your Church a true Church,when an Effential part was Null ? 3. Hów- ver, was it the Holy Church when an efTential Part was fuch a Villain ? q. Will not your Argument as well prove every Bifhop, Prieft, or man Infallible ? For no one of them all can define fa!fiy again(/ an Article of Faith, as long as he lawfully ufeth his Power; For it is no lawful ufe of power that fo defineth and belieth God. 5. But is all your foundation of Faith come to this ? It is then but faying, when ever your Pope and Church Erreth, that they didnot aft their Power lawfully : And what re- lief is that to the deceived? How (hall we know when your Popes have ufed it lawfully, and when not ; and fo what is true among you, and what falfe? 6. And were your Roman Council of Bithops and Prietls, all as bad as this Villainous Pope, and ready to pleafe him in their Decrees: And was this a Holy Church, Osd like to be an Infallible Council: And mutt the World follow them ? 7. And how then (hall we know that it was not juft fo with many other former and following Councils ; and that it will not be fo with youagain ! O miferable fhifts againft plainTruth ! ¢. s s. The fame great Authors after Luitpraudus,1. s.c.9. fay,that Stephen an Invader of the Papal Seat, by thefat-lion ofthe Nobles againft Adelbert, `Princeof Etruria, was thruft into prifon An. 900. andafter he hadbeen Pope Six Tears, being (trangled in the fame Prifen, ended his Days by Gods Ven geance in an infamous Death] : Yet Platina faith, that he died thefirff Tear and third month of his Reign; and Onuphrius faith, he fate one year, two moneths, and ninteen'days. ¢. 12. it's (hang that Luitpraudus faith, that Stephen condemned the Corps of Formofus for being a Bithopbefore, when Plarina' and Onuphritis fay, that he himfelf was Epifcopus Ananinus, whenmade Pope. ¢. s 3. And Platina faith, that [This-Contravene (again ft Formofus) was S .f 2 Snag'
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