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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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§. 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.)]
§. 21. Christopher thus got in by sudden invasion, kept it longer than ⟨p. 318⟩Leo did, even near seven Months; and then he that had been twice Pope before, did once again try for it, and was too strong for Christopher, and put him into a Monastery. A Holy place then, no doubt, For saith Platina [This was the only refuge of the Calamitous: For in those times bad Clergy Men were thirst into Monasteries, by way of Banishment, as heretofore into Islands.]
§. 21. Christopher thus got in by sudden invasion, kept it longer than ⟨p. 318⟩Leo did, even near seven Months; and then he that had been twice Pope before, did once again try for it, and was too strong for Christopher, and put him into a Monastery. A Holy place then, no doubt, For saith Platina [This was the only refuge of the Calamitous: For in those times bad Clergy Men were thurst into Monasteries, by way of Banishment, as heretofore into Islands.]
§. 22. The Man that did this and got the Popedom, was Sergius 3. who had been twice before cast out: 1saith Baron, and Bin. (p. 1052.) [That wicked Sergius (Nefandus) by Albertus Arms got in: A Man that was the servant of all Vices, and of all Men the most wicked (Facinorosissimus) invaded the Popedom, and so was by all Men taken for no lawful Pope: To his horrid Sacrilege, he added the most impudent filthiness; and by Marozia (a great Whore) the Daughter of that most famous Whore Theodora, he begot his Son John (after Pope.)] For many Historians tell us, how these two famous Whores did rule Rome, and make and unmake Popes.