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

§. 67. The next Pope according to Platina, is Benedict (though Onuphrius and Binius put Donus next: saith Plot. Cintius a potent Citizen of Rome took him and laid him in Jail, and there strangled him: He wondered that neither Otho nor any other ever Revenged it: But Otho was now near Death, and could not have leisure to bring an Army out of Germany to Rome, every time that wicked Citizens and Popes f•ll out: Did the Universal Church own this man also? But (saith Plot.) Benedict's Merits were such as Cintius his reward importeth. But yet it was not well done of Cintius to meddle with the Pope were he never so bad: But alas (saith he) how the World is changed! For in our Age, Popes lay Citizens, faulty or suspected, in the same Prison, and then Macerate them.

§. 67. The next Pope according to Platina, is Benedict (though Onuphrius and Binius put Donus next: saith Plat. Cintius a potent Citizen of Rome took him and laid him in Iayle, and there strangled him: He wondred that neither Otho nor any other ever Revenged it: But Otho was now near Death, and could not have leasure to bring an Army out of Germany to Rome, every time that wicked Citizens and Popes f•ll out: Did the Universal Church own this man also? But (saith Plat.) Benedicts Merits were such as Cintius his reward importeth. But yet it was not well done of Cintius to meddle with the Pope were he never so bad: But alas (saith he) how the World is changed! For in our Age, Popes lay Citizens, faulty or suspected, in the same Prison, and then Macerate them.

§. 68. Donus 2. was Pope but three months: In his short time, the Bulgarians had almost taken Constant. ¹saith Platina. And Anno 972. a Council was held at Ingelheim in Germany, to compose Church matters.

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