and their Councils abridged. Leo, aSchifmatiek; confefling yet, that Scriptores in finiti numeri call him. Leo 8th. and own him. How then (hall we derive their fucceflìon? yohn's Kindred got the better, when the Emperour was gone, and cal- led him again, and call out Leo. Now we have two Heads, and fo two Churches ; the Church of yohn, and the Church of Leo. §. 58 CCCXVII. 4nn0963. ACouncil at Conft. gave the Emperor Nicephorus Phocas leave to marry rheophanes, the Widdow of Romanus., §. 59. CCCXV I II. Anno 964. The monflrous Beaff Pope yohn got up a- gain, call'da Synod of Bithops : And what will not Bithops do ? He is here ('till called, The molt Godly and molt Holy Pope. TheBifhops at his .tp motion Condemn Leo,and thofe that Ordainedhim and thofe that were Or- dained by him. And this Council Binius jullifieth, and cryeth down Leo 8th. as no Pope. But he confefi'eth, that by the common confent of Writers, Leo was the truePope; but Scriptorum error veritati nihilprajudi- carepateft. Anf. a. How then (hall all the world that knew not the. Cafe, be Cure that Rinitis and Bríroniss are to be believed before all their own Writers, whole common Sentence is againft them, and that Romes Succefflon from ohn is good ? a. Remember this when you plead for your fuppofed Tradition, that infinite Writers prejudice not the Truth. ß.60. But faithPlatina,Its reporred,that tuft thenJohnwas punifhed byGods jugjudgment, left a Schifine fhould havefollowed. And it is commonly a-: greed, that being in bed with amans Wife, the Devil (truck him on the head and killed him. But fome think it was rather the VVomans Husband that did it. S. 61. But yet we are never the nearer conceding, fill there aretwo Roman Popes and Churches. yohn being dead, one Benedi6l is Chofen by the parties, rotins claeri d populi Romana Confenfu, faith Bin. p. 1067. Yet le, had this Clergy and People fworn before to Otho, to Choofe no Pope without his Confent and Choife, and tied themfelvesto Leo. But to to be Perjured, and change with the Ruling Power, alas how common was it l §. 62. The godly Emperor Otho, was offended at there Villanies, and. brought an Army again to Rome: BenediEus`tnade them Rand out a Siege till Famine forced them to yield, and the Emperor let up Leo, 'and carried awayBenedict to Hamburgh, where he died. And think you but this Pope is therefore by Binius and Baronius made a Martyr, that by Rebellion and common Perjury was thus let up. 4. 63. While Otho was at Rome Anno 964. He and Lea 8. called a- nother Council of Bithops, Italian, Roman.; from Loraine, Ssxony, &c, and all the ,Roman People: Pope Benediel is brought forth, BenediC the Deacon tells him of his Perjury, having broken his Oath to Leo and toOtho : Pope BenediEt faid, If 1have finned, have mercy on me. The pit- tiful Emperour with Tears intreated the Bithop to have mercy on the man: Whereupon, he fell down at the feet of Leo and the Emperour, and confeffed that he had finned and invaded the Papacy: and delive- t1uz red
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