3 40 Church-Hiory of Bijhops and phew to john and Son to,Albericus; molt fay he was but ten years old, " fome fay x8. capable,faith Baron and Bin. of Impudence and luxury; by e' the tyranny of his Father intruded,.4n. t o3o,And (lay they)being given c` over to loft and pleafure,and by humane frailty ruffling into impudence, " and living to great fcandal of the faithful, he was by the Romans, the Coned Ptolemy favouring it, rejefted, or at leaft gave it up by the per- fwafion of the holy Abbot'Bartholome v. Whereupon Silvefter the 3d. "came into his place,who had been Bifhop ofSabine, even by bribery and "evil arts ; and did rend the Church by anew Schifm: But hehad fcarce Sate three months, but Benedict by the help of the rufculanes returned "and .caft him out, as an invader. In the mean time a third man, yobn "Arch- Presbyter of Rome invading the fame feat, brought yet a greater " deformity on the Church: And fo A THREE-HEADED BEAST ARI- "SING FROM THE GATES OF HELL didmiferably infeft the holy "Chain of Sr. Peter,] Thefe are the words ofthe Popesgrand flatterers. "And they tell usthat one Gratina a Presbyter pitying thismiferableftate "ofthe Church, went to all the three Popes, and gave themmoney to "hire them all to refign ; And fo Benedit1 as the molt worthy being fe- "cured of the Revenues of England, depofed himfelf; and that he "might the more freely execute his lulls betook himfelf to his Fathers houfe,when intruded by forceand tyranny he had held the Papacy eleven years. And when the reft by, his example had done the like, each being contented with his affigned portion of the Revenue, the Church An. ao44.was reftored to its ancient union,ipeace and concord, the'Schifm be- " ing expelled,and the tyrannyby which it was oppreffed taken out of the " way.] Thus Bar. and Bin. But how came this Presbyter to be fo honeft and fo rich? you mull know that when he had got out the three Popes be was made Pope himfelf, of which more anon. §. 104. But though theee Authors tell us but of four Popes at once, as credible writers of their own tell us there were fix: Wernerus in Faf- 1 Onu- deal, Temper. faith [The 54. * Schifm was fcandalous and full of confufi- phr. will 'on between. Benedict the 9th. and fiveethers; which Benedict was whol- bettero &ly vitious,and therefore being damned, he appeared in a monftrous and that it `horrid fhape, his head and tail were like anAffes, the reft of his body was the 'likea Bear, ** faying, I thus appear becaufe I lived like a beaft. In this zoth ' Schifm there wereno lets than fixPopes at once:s.Benedict was expulfed. '*So fay 'a.Silvefler 3d. got in, but is cart out again, and Benedict reftored, 3, But Platina being cart out again Gregory the 6th. is put into his place : who becaufe and many, he was ignorant of Letters caufed another Pope to be confeerated with others him, to perform Church- Offices, which was the fourth: which difpleafed many, and therefore a third is chofen inftead ofthofe two that were fight- ingwith one another. 6. But .Henry the Emperor coming in depofed them 'all and chofe Clement the 2d.] thefixth- that were alive at once, There is great difference between lgernerus, Onuphrius, Platina, Baronius, but all confefs thatthere were three or four at once, Andthe three werefecu- red
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