Church-history of the government of bishops and their councils abbreviated including the chief part…

§. 12. It's strange that Luitpraudus saith, that Stephen condemned the Corps of Formosus for being a Bishop before, when Platina and Onuphrius say, that he himself was Episcopus Anagninus, when made Pope.

§. 12. It's strang that Luitpraudus saith, that Stephen condemned the Corps of Formosus for being a Bishop before, when Platina and Onuphrius say, that he himself was Episcopus Anagninus, when made Pope.

§. 13. And Platina saith, that [This Controversy (against Formosus) was ⟨p. 316⟩great and of ill Examples;¹ seeing that after this, it was almost always kept as a Custom, that following Popes did either Infringe, or wholly undo the Acts of those that went before them:] And yet were they Infallible?

§. 13. And Platina saith, that [This Controversie (against Formosus) was ⟨p. 316⟩great and of ill Examples;¹ seeing that after this, it was almost always kept as a Custome, that following Popes did either Infring, or wholly undoe the Acts of those that went before them:] And yet were they Infallible?

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§. 14. The next Pope was called Romanus, whose Life Platina thus Describeth: Romanus as soon as he was Pope, presently Abrogateth and Condemneth the Decrees and Acts of Stephen: For these Popes thought of nothing, but to Extinguish the Name and Dignity of their Predecessors, than which nothing can be worse, or the part of a narrower mind: For they that trust to such Acts as these, having no Virtue themselves, endeavour to raze out the men of Desert, whom through sloth and malice they cannot match. You shall never find any to envy another's Fame, but one that himself is Contaminated with all disgrace, and despaireth that his own Name should ever be Famous with Posterity: