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Church-history of the government of bishops and their councils abbreviated including the chief part…
Church-history of the government of bishops and their councils abbreviated including the chief part of the government of Christian princes and popes, and a true account of the most troubling controversies and heresies till the Reformation ... / by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed by B. Griffin for Thomas Simmons, 1680
Church-History OF BISHOPS And their COUNCILS ABRIDGED, &c. › Chapter 11
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§. 18. This Pope had a Corrival, which was the 15. Schism: Sergius that had been made Pope with Formosus, and was put out and Banished, did now get in again; but John had the stronger part, and cast him out, and Banished him once again: Onuphr. Chron. p. 28. But had he been but strong enough, the succession had come down from him, as right.
§. 18. This Pope had a Corrival, which was the 15. Schisme: Sergius that had been made Pope with Formosus, and was put out and Banished, did now get in again; but Iohn had the stronger part, and cast him out, and Banished him once again: Onuphr. Chron. p. 28. But had he been but strong enough, the succession had come down from him, as right.
§. 19. Benedict the 4. came next; Nothing saith Platina, was done in his time that is much to be praised; because both Princes, Popes, and Clergy were grown Debauched; bad Princes making Popes by Tyranny: Now the Line of Charles the Great, lost the Empire, Ludovicus the Son of Arnulphus being slain by Berengarius; and so they lost both Italy, Germany, (and after France) by their own, and the Clergies Wickedness.
§. 20. Leo. 5. Came next, Anno 907. Who thrust him in, I find not; but when he had Reigned but 40. days, his familiar friend Christopher had list to be Pope, and cast him out, and laid him in Fetters; where it's said he dyed of Grief: where Platina well noteth, that [The saying is certainly true, that Dignities (or places of preferment) receive more honour from the Men, than the Men do from the Dignities (or places.)]