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A55699	A present for a papist, or, The life and death of Pope Joan plainly proving out of the printed copies and manuscripts of popish writers and others, that a woman called Joan was really Pope of Rome, and was there deliver'd of a bastard son in the open street, as she went in solemn procession / by a lover of truth, denying human infallibility.	Cooke, Alexander, 1564-1632.	1675 (1675)	Wing P3244; ESTC R31913	55,061	172

unknown to the Western Churches Besides Aeneas Sylvus who lived since that doth justify that in his time Athens was not totally demolished but carried the shew of a pr●tty Town For Civitas Atheniensis quoth he quondam nobilissima fuit c. eadem nostro tempore parvi oppidi speciem g●rit So that the exception aforesaid doth no way prejudice the truth of this Story Having driven them from this poor Sconce this slender shelter I shall pursue them to another which is grounded on what C. Bellarmin writes That there were no Schools for learning at that time neither in Athens nor any part of Graecia saith he m Lib. 3. de Rom. Pontif. cap. 24. Constat eo tempore neque Athenis neque usquam alibi in Graecia fuisse ulla Gymnasia literarum This he endeavours to prove first by Synesius who lived a little after St. Basil and Nazianzens time who n In Epist ult ad fratrem suum writ to his Brother that Athens retained only the bare name of an University And secondly he makes use of Zonoras and Cedrenus to back the former who record that in the sole Reign of Michael the Emperour about the year 856 Bernardus Caesar restored Learning Cum usque ad illud tempus per annos plurimos ita fuissent extincta omnia studia sapientia in Graecia ut ne vestigium quidem ullum extaret And doth this import think you that in Synesiius his opinion there was no Vniversity at Athens I am of the opinion that Synesius meant thereby that Athens was an Vniversity though nothing near so famous and flourishing as heretofore Questionelss when o Bernardi Epist 193. St. Bernard writ that Peter Abailard had nothing of a Monk but the name and the Cowl his meaning was not that Peter was no Monk but a sory one And I am the rather induced to understand the words of Synesius to be so because Athens in St Basils time about some 40 years before Synesius was held the Mother of Learning and in regard therof called Golden Athens by Greg. q In Monodia in Bas Magni vitam Nazianzen For who can think in so few years Learning should quite be quenched and that so famous an Vniversity should in so short a time be utterly decayed but suppose there was no Vniversity in Athens in Synesius his time what is that to prove there was no Vniversity in Pope Joans time at Athens which was 400 years after That Vniversity might revive and get new Life in so many years as it did for two years after Synesius his time Boethius went to study at Athens teste Baronio adding further that the study of Philosophy was revived there in those days p Baron Annal Tom. 3. ad an 354. As for Cedrenus and Zonorus Bellarmin wrongs them both in bringing them in to witness that there were no Schools in any part of Graecia in Pope Joans times For they say no more but that Learning was not regarded a long time before Bardus Caesar they do not say that it was quite extinct but almost Philosophia neglecta jacebat ac propè omnino extincta erat ut ne scintilla quidem ejus apparet Bardus Caesar added Life to it by erecting Schools for all the Liberal Sciences and appointing Publick Professors and giving them stipends out of the Exchequer as Cedrenus and Zonoras do writ but certainly he raised it not up simply to Life for had it been stark dead how could he so suddainly have gotten Professors to furnish his Schools We may read in Zonoras that at the same time there was a matchless Philosopher called Leo who studied at Constantinople and had to his Scholars many skilful Mathematicians Moreover it cannot be denyed that about the year 680 there was kept a General Council at Constantinople wherein there were many eminent Bishops of Greece and among the rest the r Conc. Const 6. Act. 17. Bishop of Athens There was another Council kept at Nice and 100 years after viz. about the 780 at which there were more Bishops of Greece than at the former There was a third Council held at Constantinople which did exceed in number either of the former two about the year t Bellarm. loco citat 870 and how is it credible so many Councils consisting of many Bishops should be kept in Greece and yet Greece utterly without Learning Now as these abusers of truth deny that there was any Learning at that time in Greece so they will not allow that there was any s Bellar. lib. 1. de Conc. cap. 5. open Profession of Learning in those days in Rome because they will gainsay the truth of Pope Joans going thither and that as she professed publickly all manner of Learning whereby the greatest Doctors there became her Scholars so she preached and wonderfully ingaged the Ears and Hearts of her Auditors u Mat. Westmon Flores Hist ad an 727. History makes appear that Ina one of our Saxon Kings did build a School in Rome a little before the days of Pope Joan in the year 727 to this end that the Kings of England and their Children the Bishops Priests and the rest of the Clergy might repair thither to be instructed in the Catholick faith and afterwards return home which School flourished in the raign of King x Ibid. ad an 794. Offa which was in the year 795 and continued at least till Alfred's time For we Read that Marinus who was Pope in the year 883 freed it from all payments at the request of Alfred Now is it likely that such a School was built and maintain'd for such a purpose where no Learning was publickly professed Moreover we read of many other Schools kept in the same City in the time of Steven the 6 in the year 885. For all the Schools in Rome with alacrity concurred and brought Steven the sixth to the Palace of Lateran and Stephen was troubled he had not wherewith to gratify them thus saith Anastasius in the Life of this Pope and is it reason to believe these Schools were without Masters Readers and Professors But now it is time to introduce that which Cardinal Baronius thinks will knock ' i th' head and bury this story in perpetual oblivion and that is thus saith he if Leo the fourth lived to the year 855 then Marianus Scotus the first promoter of this story told a manifest untruth in reporting that this Joan was chosen Pope in the year 853 for by his confession she succeeded Leo the 4 but Leo the 4 lived to the year 855 Ergo Marianus Scotus lyes c. Anno octingentessimo quinquagesimo tertio Leo Papa obiit Kalend. Augusti huic success it Johanna Mulier annis duobus mensibus quinque diebus quatuor In the year 853 Leo the Pope died on the Kalends of August and Joan the woman succeeded after him for the space of two years five months and four days You may see the falacy of this