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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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And a Synod was at Rome, about the Bishop of Magdeburg, accused.
§. 73. CCCXIX. Anno 975. At a Council at Constantinople, Basil the Patriarch is Accused as Criminal, and Antonius Studita put in his place.
§. 73. CCCXIX. Anno 975. At a Council at Constantinople, Basil the Partiarch is Accused as Criminal, and Antonius Studita put in his place.
§. 74. Pope John 14. (alias 15.) is next at Rome, Anno 984. Binius maketh him succeed Boniface that had killed Pope Benedict, and was fled to Constantinople; and saith, that when Boniface knew that Otho the Emperor was dead, he returned to Rome, and seized on the Papacy again; and finding John in it, did not only turn him out, but cast him in Bonds in the Tower of St. Angelo, which was kept by men of his own faction; and with great Tyranny kept him there four months, and as a violent and sacrilegious Robber, at last Murdered him by Famine. And lest any hope should be left to the Emperors Party, he exposed the Corps of the dead Pope (for all the Citizens to behold) before the doors of the Prison: And the People seeing the bare body of the Pope consumed by Hunger, buried him with Sorrow. In the mean time, the Invader of the Seat, and the cruel Murderer of two Popes, the odious Parricide, and turbulent thief Boniface the Anti-Pope, (Oh Horrible!) by Tyranny Invaded St. Peters Chair: But after four months, by Gods Revenge, he suddenly dyed (he killed himself said Plot. When he was dead, even the factious persons on whom he had trusted, Wounded his dead Carcass, and Dragged it through the City. This Bin. out of Baron. and he exautiquis Vatican-Codicibus.