Religion and Policy and the Countenance and Assistance Each Should Give to the Other: With a Survey of the Power and Jurisdiction of the Pope in the Dominions of Other Princes, Volume 2

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At the Clarendon Press, 1811 - Papacy - 711 pages
 

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Page 675 - Facultatis esse, quod subditi fidem et obedientiam regi christianissimo ita debent, ut ab iis nullo praetextu dispensari possint.
Page 479 - I will never believe that he is truly converted, unless an angel come from heaven to whisper it in my ears. As to the Catholics who have followed his party, I look upon them only as disobedient deserters of religion and the crown, and no more than bastards and sons of the bondwoman. Those of the League are lawful children, the real supports and true pillars of the...
Page 423 - Regnans in excelsis, cui data est omnis in coelo et in terra potestas, unam sanctam catholicam et apostolicam ecclesiam, extra quam nulla est salus, uni soli in terris, videlicet, apostolorum principi Petro, Petrique successori Romano pontifici, in potestatis plenitudine tradidit gubernandam. Hunc unum super omnes gentes et omnia regna principem constituit, qui evellat, destruat, dissipet, disperdat, plantet, et aedificet ; ut fidelem populum, mutuae charitatis nexu constrictum, in unitate spiritus...
Page 649 - Popes, and do themselves pay and enjoin their subject! to render that submission and obedience to him, have not that opinion of his divine right, nor do they look upon it as any part of their religion ; so that in truth the obligation which is imposed upon the Catholic subjects of Protestant Princes is another religion, or at least consists of more articles of faith than the Catholic Princes and their subjects do profess to believe.
Page 649 - The first is, the extreme scandal and damage religion hath sustained from this exorbitant affectation of superiority and sovereignty in the Pope; the greatest schisms and separations amongst Christians having flowed from that fountain ; and from thence the greatest ruin to kings and kingdoms, in the vast consumption of treasure and blood in unnatural wars and rebellions, having had their original. ' The second is, that Catholic Princes themselves, who, for their...
Page 667 - ... disturbed ?" He goes on therefore to observe, " It is no more excuse for them than it is security for the King, to say that they do not acknowledge any temporal authority to be in the Pope, so that he cannot disturb the peace of the kingdom ; and that,- if himself came to invade the kingdom, they would oppose and resist him with the same courage as they would fight against the Turk ! Spiritual authority hath done too much mischief to be undervalued, or believed to have less mind to do mischief...
Page 491 - mouth unchaste and immodest words, and who was — " given to other customs unbecoming, not only the " head of the Church, but any person whatever who " had but the least advantage of an honest education.
Page 711 - This would be the way, and the only way, to make the practice of religion flourish amongst Christians, without any violation of Christian charity ; and, the uncharitableness of all faction being removed, there would remain such an innocence and integrity in the heart, as would make our religion acceptable to God ; and when no mischievous action doth necessarily result from our opinions, how erroneous soever, we should be no more offended with each other for those differences, than for the distinct...
Page 415 - Religion and policy and the countenance and assistance each should give to the other. With a survey of the power and jurisdiction of the Pope in the dominions of other princes.
Page 707 - ... Alexander VII. had refused all help to the exiled Charles II. unless he should become a Roman Catholic, and he urged that if an oath of xvi WIDE INFLUENCE OF HOBBES 287 abjuration of the political power of the popes were required from all Roman Catholics in England the penal laws might be suspended. "For if that subjection to the pope were once disclaimed and rooted out, their other errors are not dangerous to the State.

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