(119) call General Councils to end the.Schifines : That at Can- fante thought they had done the Work ;. but, they left Workenough for that at Baßl, and niörethan they coj41jl do : When they found not a fit Man amongthe Clergy, they chofe a Lay-man tobe Pope, the Duke of Sauey, a Man noted for honer Simplicity and Piety, and called him Felix the Fifth : But Eugenifu, who was raft out by theCouncil for his wickednefs, kept theplace, andmade the Duke glad to refign and leave thePopedome., Should I flay to tell you after the Barbarous Agegoo. what work the Popes made in theWorld, how many thoufand they forced to death upon the Wars at 7erufa lem how many fcore thoufand a aldenjes and Albi en- fei; theyMurdered , 5 How they forcedKings to kips their Feet, and trod on theNeck ofFrederick the Emperour How they divided the Empire by a Rebellious War a- gainft theEmperours Henry the Third and Fourth And how they Armed their Subjeás and Neighbours againft ;them, yea the Emperours Son againft his own Father ; And how the Writers. of thole times are divided, and open the lamentable Divifións of theAges in which they lived ; What work they made here againft the Kings of England ; andwhat paffed betweenBoniface the Eighth and the KingofFrance, and the Coin;on which he Stam- ped his Reiblution to ' elerlroy Babylon, &c. you would little think that either Holinefs or v nits+ were any Pro- perty of the Roman Church. Q. But ifmofl did not favour them, how did theya f tend to `o great. power ?, Anf. x. The old Name of the Impetizl Rome, and The Popes Primacie in ,the Empire, kept upa Veneration for him in the ignorant. 2. The EafternEmperours feated at Conflantinople were fo ta- ken up with Wars, Rebellions, and:other Difficulties at
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