(r is) the marking offuck times : And what kind of Cardinals, prie(ls, and Deacons, think you, we must imagine, that these Moni!iers did chufe, when nothing ufo rooted in Na- ture as for every one to beget his like.] For near 15o years, faith Genebrard, about fifty Popes were rather Apo- f atical than Apollo/ital.] And where was their uninterrupted Succeffon all this time ? Pope Ñicolas in his Decretals Caranz. p. 393. 395) .faith [ He that by Money or thefavour of Men, or Popu- laror Military Tumults is intruded into the Apoftolical Seat, without the Concordant andCanonical Eleelion of the Cardinals and the following religious Clergy, let him not be takenfor a Pope nor Apoftolical, but Apoflatical.] And of the Clergy he faith [ Priefts that commit Fornication cannot have the honour of Prieflhood;] Yea, [ Let no man hear Mafsof a Priefl whom he certainly knoweth to have a Concubine or woman introduced.] (And íhall not Protestants forgive thofe that will not hear fuch, or as bad ?) Where then was thePapacyunder_fuch ? For above forty years together there were more Popes than one at once, and fometimes more than two, one dwellingat Rome, and another at Avignion, or elféwhere : One fet up andobeyed byone Party, and another by ano- ther Party, each condemning the other as an Ufurper. And had the Univerfal Church thenany one Head? And with what wickednefs are they charged, one def}roy- ing what the other was for ; fee in wernerus Facial. and my Key p. 28, 29, 3o. wernerus and others fay, that Silveiter thefecond was made Pope by the help of the Devil to whom he did homage, that all mightgo as he would have it -- -- but he quicklymet with the ,end that fuch have that place their hope inde- ceitful
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