3 t 6 Cburch.r- dory of Pifhops great andof ill.Examples ; feeingthat after this, it was almoflalways kept as itCuflome, that fallowing Popes dideither Infring, or wholly undoe the Atts . of thole that went before them: J And yet were theyInfallible? 4: 14. The next Pope was called Romanies,whofe Life Platina thus De- feribeth Romanies asfoan as hewas Pope, prefentlyAbrogateth andCondem- neth the. Decrees andAlbof Stephen : For thefe Popes thought of nothing, but toExtinguifhthe Name and Dignity of their Predeceffors, than which nothing can be werfe, or thepart of a narrower mind : For they that trufi to fach Aar as rhefe, having no Virtue themfelves, endeavor to rafeout the menof Defert, whom through faath and malice they canitat match. Toot fha11 neverfind any to envy anothersFame, but. one that himfelfis Contaminated with all difgrace, and defpaireth that his own Name fbould ever be Famous with Poftertty : Thefe are they that by Fraud, Malice, Craft, and evil [peaking, do Bite,.,Tear, Accule, andWorry thole that deferve well of Mankind; like cowardly, orflothfel, and ofeles Dogs, that darenotjetupon wildBeafls them- felves, but will bite theft that are eyed, or in their Dens.] Sa Platina. - -- Ro manes Ruled but three Months. 4. 15. Next Succeeded in the PopedomeTheadorus 2. who faith Pla- tina followedtheflepsof the Seditious : Forhe reflored theAsir of Formofus,, andpreferredhisfollowers: and Reignedbut Twenty days. Next came Yohn 9, (or to, asothers) faith Platina. [He reflored the Caufeof. Pope- Formofus, many of the People beingagainft it : whence a-- raftfachaSedition, that they hardlyfcapeda Battle. Baronies faith, that Lu- dovices a. was depofed and blinded now by Berengarius, who affumed the Empire; and this Pope Crowned him, through fear ! Yet after he was gone, he called Lambert to Rome, and with a Synod concurring with. him, declared the Coronations both of Berengaries and Arrnulph to be. Null, as being, extorted ; and fo took Lambert for King and Emperour Did not the Crowns of Princes fit very lode, when it was but a Popes, pretending that heCrowned them through Fee, and they were prefent ly Depofed? Would thefe Popes have been Martyrs,._ or were they Chriflians or Gnolicjj, that would fin, if they were but put in fear? And would not fear have made them own a Herefy, as well as other fn ? On, this oecafon all was café into Confulon : the Pope- was.fain to fly to Ra- venna for protection, to himwhom he had Crowned. $. 16, CCCVI. This.Popecalled a Synod at Rome (that called.Ovetenfc, I pals by, as. of finall moment) An. 9o4. in which he condemned the', fact of,Pope Stephtn, dccreeing that the Dead are not to be judged by men. J3ut. what.became of. the Synod of..Bifhops that had joyned herein with Pope Stephen I Why (Bin. p. t 049.) they turn'd with the times, and . o did as fuch,had ufedto da; They askedforgivenefs; and[aid, they did itfor E. Fear; and .fo, he that hashpower byFear or-Hope, canmake fuchBifhops- and Councils Sin and Repent and Sin again,-and Repent again, as Inte-- reft . alttreth, They were pardoned. But Formofes preferment, from a Bifhoprick.to the .Popedoìn.,. as Voted to be againft .the Canons, ex- curable
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