# Of The Dreadful Time, Called By The Papists The Iron And Leaden Century, Which Was With Respect To The Election Of The Popes. · Page 2 of 2

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With regard to the aforesaid matters, the writer
of the Introduction mentioned says (Fol. 27. col. 2):
“This being taken into consideration, we say, that
it is not true that they, namely the Romanists, have
an uninterrupted succession from the days of the
apostles to the present time, as they would make
the people believe, with their long register of popes,
whom they have connected as the links of a chain,
as though they, through lawful mission, had always
maintained a continuous succession; but we have
proved here that this chain of succession is, in many
ways, broken.

“In the first place, by Stephen VII. and his successors,
who have forcibly thrust themselves into
the chair. These certainly had no mission; and
where the mission ceases, the succession ceases also.

“In the second place, by those who were thrust
into the chair, without the order or sanction of the
church, only by kings and princes, yea, even by
whores, through lewd love; or who bought the
same with money, as we have shown. These also
were certainly not sent; or, if they were sent, it
must be proved, by whom: for two contrary things
cannot consist together. If they were sent, they did
not thrust themselves into the chair, as Baronius
says notwithstanding; but if they thrust themselves
into it, or were thrust into it by others through unlawful
means, then they were not sent, and consequently,
had no succession from the apostles.”
Introduction, fol. 28. col. 1.



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