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Iewel. Pag. 132.Platina calleth the Popes sometimes in scorne, Pontificulos,* 1.1 litle pe∣tite Popes, sometimes monstra, & portenta, monsters, and vnnatural, and ilshapen creatures.
If Platina speake so of some Popes, it is the more signe,
that he either hated the Popes, or els that he spake as he thought, and that he wrote not for flatterie, as sometimes you saye of him. I praye you what cause had Platina to flatter with them (as with Hildebrand) who were so long dead before he was borne? And as for those with whom he liued, he flattered them neuer a whit, as maye appeare by the life of Pope Paulus the second.* 1.2 Wel, were then some Popes monsters? Verely I thinke so with Platina concerning some few of their liues. But euen those, that were worste, made no breache in the rule of the faith. God so prouided alwaies, that although Hel gates, to wit, al vices, and al the power of the Deuil were bent against the Popes, and the Churche of Rome, yet al should not preuaile against the Rocke, and true Confession of the Faith, which euer hath ben, and shalbe in the Succession of Peters Chaire. Whereupon, S. Hierome doubted not to saye,* 1.3 Cathedrae Petri Communione consocior, super illam petram aedificatam Ecclesiamscio. I am ioyned in commu∣nion to the Chaire of Peter, vpon that Rocke I knowe the Churche is builte.
Platina in Romano. 2
Platina cā¦not seme to haue flattered the Popes in vvritīg their liues
Hieron. epist. ad Damasū.