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... his priests , are politicians ; men of the world , and mere men of pleasure . It is , as a system , in the hands of a foreign despotism , precisely what the Koran is in the hands of the ་ grand Turk , and his muftis . It is.
... his priests , are politicians ; men of the world , and mere men of pleasure . It is , as a system , in the hands of a foreign despotism , precisely what the Koran is in the hands of the ་ grand Turk , and his muftis . It is.
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... despot . They are sworn by the only oath which can bind a priest , and to the only sovereign which they confess to be ... despotism . Priests seat themselves in the temple of God , and in his throne - they pardon sins , not declaratively ...
... despot . They are sworn by the only oath which can bind a priest , and to the only sovereign which they confess to be ... despotism . Priests seat themselves in the temple of God , and in his throne - they pardon sins , not declaratively ...
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... despots dictate to them their guides , without any appeal . This uproots every principle of aberty . 4th . No popish lay- man allowed to read the Bible , or draw his own religion by his own conscience , from it . Specimen of papal ...
... despots dictate to them their guides , without any appeal . This uproots every principle of aberty . 4th . No popish lay- man allowed to read the Bible , or draw his own religion by his own conscience , from it . Specimen of papal ...
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... despotism and refinement of idolatry and wickedness , in modern times . Its government an equally singular anomaly . Its claims of ABSOLUTE SUPREMACY . Rise and progress of this ghostly power in the church . Constantine's unhappy policy ...
... despotism and refinement of idolatry and wickedness , in modern times . Its government an equally singular anomaly . Its claims of ABSOLUTE SUPREMACY . Rise and progress of this ghostly power in the church . Constantine's unhappy policy ...
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... despotism . Pope Gregory actually rebuked the eastern pope , who first set up his claims of universal bishop in the East . At first , no pope claimed , or even thought of claiming , power over emperors or magis- trates . Proof . They ...
... despotism . Pope Gregory actually rebuked the eastern pope , who first set up his claims of universal bishop in the East . At first , no pope claimed , or even thought of claiming , power over emperors or magis- trates . Proof . They ...
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Page 24 - Inasmuch as it is manifest from experience, that if the Holy Bible, translated into the vulgar tongue, be indiscriminately allowed to every one, the temerity of men will cause more evil than good to arise from it, it is, on this point, referred to the judgment of the bishops or inquisitors, who may, by the advice of the priest or confessor, permit the reading of the Bible translated into the vulgar tongue by Catholic authors, to those persons whose...
Page 85 - See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.
Page 37 - O God, if there be a God, save my soul, if I have a soul !' This was followed by a general laugh.
Page 30 - The proposition that the sun is the centre of the world and immovable from its place is absurd, philosophically false, and formally heretical, because it is expressly contrary to the Holy Scripture.
Page 19 - Otherwise, where ill men (be they heretics or other malefactors) may be punished or suppressed, without disturbance and hazard of the good, they may and ought, by public authority, either spiritual or temporal, to be chastised or executed.
Page 128 - CANON ix.—If any one saith, that the sacramental absolution of the priest is not a judicial act, but a bare ministry of pronouncing and declaring sins to be forgiven to him who confesses...
Page 85 - The authority given to St Peter and his successors, by the immense power of the eternal King, excels all the powers of earthly kings and princes...
Page 127 - ... households. And of every of these households hath every of the five orders of friars a penny a quarter for every order, that is for all the five orders, five pence a quarter for every house.
Page 31 - The proposition that the earth is not the centre of the world, nor immovable, but that it moves, and also with a diurnal motion, is also absurd, philosophically false, and, theologically considered, at least erroneous in faith.
Page 32 - Anatomy is suspected, and watched closely, whenever she takes up the scalpel ; and Medicine had many a pang to endure while endeavouring to expunge the use of bark and inoculation from the catalogue of mortal sins. You must not only believe what the Inquisition...