The twentieth schifme ( faith wernerus) wu great between Alexander the Third andfour others, andit 14- edfeventeen years. After Nicolas the Fourth ( faithhe ) there waa no Pope for twoyears anda half ( where was the Church then ? ) andCeleftine the Fifth that fucceedecl him refigning it, Bo- niface the Eig'-th entered, thatfilled himfelf Lord of the whole world in spirituals and Temporals; o robom it was faid, he enteredas a Fox, lived as a Lyon,. and dyed likea Dog. I haveas good hope of the falvation of C.eleftine the FifthandFelix theFifthas any two ofthem,becaufe as they weredrawn inas fimple Men in ignorance, fo their rehgnation ffie ved fome hope that they repented. The 22. Schir me (faith wernerus ad an. 1373.) w. the n°orfl andmoll fubtil Schifme ofall that were before it : for it wasfo perplexed that the moll Learned and Confcientious Men were not able to find out to whom they Jh}ould adhere "nd it Ins continuedfor years. Iv thegreat fcandal of the whole Clergie, and the great lofs offouls, becaufe of Heretic's andotherevils that then fprung up, becaufe there wat no difciplihe in the Church againfl them. And there- forefrom this Urban the Sixth to the time of Martin the Fifth, I knownot whow, s Pope. ] (Nor I 'neither.: nor anyone elfe I think). The twenty third Schifine, was between Felix the Fifth and EugeniiPs the Fourth, ofwhich faith wernerru Hence arofe great contention among the Writers ofthis Matter, pro& contra, and they cannot agree to thisday For one part faith that a Council is above the Pope ; the other part on the contrary faith, no, but the Pope is above the Council : Godgrant his Church Peace, &c.] The Chri ®. TianWorld being all in Divifions becaufeof fidings for there feveral Popes,' the Emperours were conftrained to. call
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