214 UNIVERSAL ERUDITION. 



the place of which our Saviour inftitnted the 

 holy (upper, by making ufe of almoft the very 

 phrafes, in blefling the bread and wine, th it the 

 father of a Jewifh family made ufe ot in blefiing 

 the lamb and the wine of Ealter : in fhort, that 

 it was a refpedtable inftitution, but has been 

 ftrangely disfigured. 



VII. (2.) The Hijtory of the Popes. Though 

 it may appear extraordinary enough, when we 

 form an idea of the prefcnt popes as heads of the 

 Chriftian church and fecular princes, to find an 

 uninterrupted fucceflion of theie fovereign pon- 

 tiffs, from the apoille St. Peter to Clement XIII. 

 a Venetian , ii is, however, convenient and ufe- 

 ful to follow this feries of the catholic hiftorians, 

 as it produces great order in the Jiiftory of the 

 church, and leaves no confiderable vacuities to 

 be fnpplied. By diftinguifhing, therefore, the 

 eighteen ages of the church, and the reigns of 

 the popes in each century, and by learning the 

 moft confiderable events, with regard to the 

 church, that occurred under each pontificate, we 

 are enabled to acquire a knowledge fufficiently 

 complete of ecclefiaftical hiflory. We can here 

 give their names only, in their proper order. 



VIII. 



Firfl Age. 



i. St. Peter the apoftle. 2. St. Linus. 3. St. 

 Cletus, a Roman, 4. St. Clement, a Roman. 



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