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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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§. 69. The next Pope (saith Plot.) was Boniface the 7th, who ill got the Popedom, and so lost it. Onuphrius and Bin. say, that Cintius by his command strangled his Predecessors, and that he Succeeded him. Saith Plot. in the beginning of his Magistracy (for a Magistracy it thus was) by the Conspiracy of the good Citizens, being forced to leave the City, taking away all the precious things out of S. Peters Church, he fled to Constantinople; where he stayed, till selling all that he had sacrilegiously gotten, he got a great mass of Money, with which he returned to corrupt the Citizens by Bribes. But good men resisted him, especially John a Cardinal-Deacon, whom Boniface catched and put out his Eyes: And the Sedition increasing more and more, either for fear or remorse, he next made away (or killed) himself: He was Pope 7 months and 5 days saith Platinus. But Onuphrius saith (one year, one month and 12 days.) But other Popes came in between before he died, and he got in again.
§. 69. The next Pope (saith Plat.) was Boniface the 7th, who ill got the Popedome, and so lost it. Onuphrius and Bin. say, that Cintius by his command strangled his Predecessors, and that he Succeeded him. Saith Plat. in the beginning of his Magistracy (for a Magistracy it thus was) by the Conspiracy of the good Citizens, being forced to leave the City, taking away all the pretious things out of S. Peters Church, he fled to Constantinople; where he stayed, till selling all that he had sacrilegiously gotten, he got a great mass of Money, with which he returned to corrupt the Citizens by Bribes. But good men resisted him, especially John a Cardinal-Deacon, whom Boniface catcht and put out his Eyes: And the Sedition increasing more and more, either for fear or remorse, he next made away (or kill'd) himself: He was Pope 7 months and 5 days saith Platinus. But Onuphrius saith (one year, one month and 12 days.) But other Popes came in between before he died, and he got in again.
§. 69. Baronius and Binius say, that Boniface is not to be numbered with the Popes; If so, 1. Why not many score also? 2. Where then is their uninterrupted Succession? And where was their Church then?