and their Councils Abridged s 4S1 f that there watno fafe going in theCity by night, norout of it by. day; Rome that was the refugeand fanEluary of all other people keretofore, was now become a Slaughter-houle, orButtbery. Thus Onuphriasof avirtuous Pope. §. 51. The Pope being dead , Cefar Borgia feizeth on the Cattle, and would haveforced' theCardinals (being yet fick of his poyfon himfelf;) but by the rilingof the people his Souldiers are ftopt, and he agreed to de- part, and Pius 3. ischofen, laid tobe oneof the better fort, but lived but 26days, and diedof a fore Leg, fufpeded tobe poyfoned. 4.52. Next comethJulius 2.. aMilitary Pope, who(pent his days in I- talian Wars, efpecially againft Alphonfus Duke of Ferrary , and Ludovicus Kingof France: In a cruel Battel 20000 are laid to be Bain nearRavenna, the French having the Victory, but lofing their General, andmultitudes of Nobles and Commanders, and were foweakened, that by hired Helvetians, and the Englifhand Spanijh that invaded them athome,they were driven and drawn back. 4.53 CCCCLXXVIII. A Council at Tours in France met againfi the Pope. §. 54. CCCCLXXIX. A General Councilat Pifa t 5t r . gathered again ti him tocall him to account : He had fwoen to call a Council within two years, and didnot ; and fo forceCardinals call it, by the Emperour Maxi- milianand Ludov. K. of France his will (as they laid.) The Pope excom municateth the Kingof France, and talleth anAnti-Council toRome; this of Pifa removed firít to Milian, and then to Lyons inFrance. 4.55. CCCCLXxx. Now cometh the great Anti-Council at the La- teran, which they call the feventeenth approved General one, t5 t a. begun by Juliusagainfi the PifaneCouncil, and ended 1517. under Leo to. The Pope thoughtRome thefafeft place to rule them, and obtain his will and for all the numerous Bifhops of Italy, this General Council had but Bifhops: *. Whether any of them came from Abaßa, Egypt, Armenia, Greece, or the Antipodes, and were the Reprefentatives of all the Chriftian World? yet theyhad a dull cheat herein to deceive the ignorant, and put the nameof the Alexandrinian and Antiochian Patriarchon two Fellows of their own, as in a Play theparts of Princes are aéled by the Stage-players r But when the Monothelites had a Council of innumerable Bishops under Philip- pieus, that was not tobe called General. He that is fo idle may reada Vo- lumn of the twelve Sef(ionsof this Council, and there find who laid Mafs fuch a day, and who loch a day, and who Tung a Gofpel and 2e Deum, and fuch like: And he may read divers Orations, among which their great learned Cajetane's is the chief, condemning the Pifane Council, and confef- fing that of the three Popes, N'allas eorumact certus gnidemant ábfgue ambi- guitate vertes Petri fiecceffor exiflimaretur : Another Oration by Chri(lopher Marcellus, Sell'. 4.. tells the Pope that he is, [Thur Princeps qui hammam in terris habet poteJtatem,teque omnis evi, omnium feculorum, omniumgentiumPrin- cipem & caput appellat) tante reipublice unions er fepremus Princeps es , cui Prima data poteftas, ad divinum injuntum im,erium, .totem, elf. He calls the M m rn a Church
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