Idem ib. c. 15, 20. Footnote 240: Idem ib. Footnote 241: Fleuri hist. Eccles. l. 3. c. 26, 27. p. 395. 397. Footnote 242: Pacian. ep. 1. Footnote 243: Euseb. ib. c. 20. Footnote 244: Ado ad ann. 194. Footnote 245: Bed. chron. t. 2. p. 111. Footnote 246: Bed. hist. l. 1. c. 4. et chron. t. 2. p. 111. Footnote 247: Euseb. l. 5. c. 21. Footnote 248: Idem ib. Footnote 249: Annal. ad ann. 182. p. 140. Footnote 250: Gild. ex. c. 6. p. 116. Footnote 251: Orig. in Luc. hom. 6. Footnote 252: Vide Ush. Brit. eccles. antiq. c. 4. et Bolland. 1. Jan. Footnote 253: Bar. ad ann. 183. Bolland. 26 Maii. Ush. ib. p. 54. 102. Footnote 254: Vide Ush. ib. p. 137, 138. Footnote 255: Martyr. Rom. 3 Decem. Footnote 256: Alf. ad ann. 201. p. 201. Footnote 257: Euseb. chron. Florent. p. 811. Footnote 258: Bolland. 26 Maii, p. 364. Footnote 259: Hier. vir. ill. c. 22. Footnote 260: Idem ib. et Euseb. l. 4. c. 11, 22. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- COMMODUS, VICTOR, SEVERUS. PERTINAX, _Thirteenth_ BISHOP _of_ Rome. [Sidenote: Year of Christ 192. ] _Victor_, the Successor of _Eleutherius_, is counted by a Writer, who at this very time lived in _Rome_, the Thirteenth Bishop of that City[261]: so that neither is St. _Peter_ reckoned among them, nor is _Cletus_ distinguished from _Anacletus_. [Sidenote: _The Heresy of_ Theodotus.] In _Victor_’s Time a new Heresy was broached at _Rome_ by one _Theodotus_ of _Byzantium_, denying the Divinity of _Christ_[262]. The _Theodotians_ gave out, that _Victor_ favoured their Doctrine[263]; which he did, perhaps, at that Time[264]; though he cut them off afterwards from his Communion. [Sidenote: Victor _approves the prophetic Spirit of_ Montanus.] Be that as it will, he can by no means be cleared from another Imputation, namely, that of owning and approving the prophetic Spirit of _Montanus_, and his Two Prophetesses, _Prisca_ and _Maximilla_: for _Tertullian_, his Contemporary, tells us, in express Terms, that he received their Prophecies; that, upon receiving them, he gave Letters of Peace to the Churches of _Asia_ and _Phrygia_; but that one _Praxeas_, just come from those Parts, giving him a false Account of those Prophets, and their Churches, and remonstrating, that by approving them, he condemned his Predecessors, prevailed upon him to revoke the Letters, which he had already written in their Behalf. [Sidenote: _His_ Infallibility, _how defended by_ Baronius _and_ Bellarmine.] Thus _Tertullian_, who was then himself become a Follower of _Montanus_[265]. Here _Baronius_ and _Bellarmine_, the Two great Advocates for the Pope’s Infallibility, are put to a Stand: they own, and cannot help owning, that the Pope was deceived, and imposed upon; but, for all that, will not give up his Infallibility. How great is the Power of Prejudice and