Tert. de præsc. hæret. c. 32. Footnote 68: Recog. p. 398. Footnote 69: Hier. vir. illust. c. 15. Footnote 70: Iren. l. 3. c. 3. Footnote 71: Euseb. l. 3. c. 2. 4. 21. Footnote 72: Theod. in 2 Tim. iv. 21. Footnote 73: Epiph. hær. 27. c. 6. Footnote 74: Optat. l. 2. p. 48. Footnote 75: Aug. ep. 165. Footnote 76: Const. Apost. l. 7. c. 46. Footnote 77: Hamm. l. 5. c. 1. Footnote 78: Idem ib. p. 247, 258. Footnote 79: Cotel. in not. Const. p. 298. Footnote 80: Pears. posthum. p. 159. 161. Footnote 81: Cypr. ep. 44. 46. 52. 55. Footnote 82: Syn. Nic. can. 8. Footnote 83: Iren. l. 3. c. 3. Euseb. l. 3. c. 2. 2 Tim. iv. 21. Footnote 84: Const. Apost. l. 7. c. 46. Footnote 85: Tert. in Marc. c. 3. Footnote 86: Euseb. l. 3. c. 13. Footnote 87: Bar. annal. ad ann. 80. Footnote 88: Tert. apol. c. 5. Footnote 89: Euseb. l. 3. c. 12. Footnote 90: Idem ib. c. 13. Footnote 91: Epiph. l. 27. c. 6. Footnote 92: Bib. Patr. tom. 7. Footnote 93: Vide Baron. ad ann. 69. et Voss. Hist. Græc. l. 2. c. 9. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- TITUS CLETUS, _or_ ANACLETUS, DOMITIAN. _Second_ BISHOP _of_ Rome. [Sidenote: Year of Christ 78. ] _Linus_ was succeeded by _Cletus_, or _Anacletus_, whom the _Greeks_ constantly style _Anencletus_, that is, _Irreprehensible_. An Opinion has long obtained in the Church of _Rome_, distinguishing _Cletus_ and _Anacletus_ as Two Popes, nay, as Two Saints; the Festival of the one being kept on the 26th of _April_, and that of the other on the 23d of _July_[94]. [Sidenote: Cletus _and_ Anacletus _not two, but one Pope_.] But this Distinction is now given up by the most learned Men of that Church, not only as groundless, but as plainly contradicting the most celebrated Writers of Antiquity, _Irenæus_, _Eusebius_, and St. _Jerom_, to whom we may add _Caius_, a Priest of _Rome_, who, writing in the Beginning of the Third Century, reckoned _Victor_ the Thirteenth Bishop of that City[95]. _Baronius_, however, spares no Pains to keep up that Distinction; but alleges nothing to countenance it, except the Poem against _Marcion_, ascribed to _Tertullian_, the Pontifical of _Anastasius_, and some Martyrologies[96]. Who was the Author of that Poem is not well known, but all agree, that it was not written by _Tertullian_[97]. Besides, the Author, whoever he was, places both _Cletus_ and _Anacletus_ before _Clement_; which _Baronius_ condemns as a gross Mistake. As for the Pontifical, the Annalist often finds fault with it; and complains, in this very Place, that _Anastasius_’s whole Chronology is overcast with an impenetrable Mist[98]. The Martyrologies he quotes are of too modern a Date to deserve any Regard, since none of them were heard of before the Ninth Century[99]. [Sidenote: _How they were first distinguished._] But how, says _Baronius_, was this