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 5Si INTELLECT AND FAITH. all theologians would apostatize, when the Lullists would convert the world, and all theology but that of their master would dis- appear. Perhaps also, Eymerich, as a Dominican, was eager to attack one in whom the Franciscans gloried as one of their great- est sons. Doubtless, too, there is truth in the assertion of the Lul- lists that their defence of the Immaculate Conception rendered Eymerich desirous of suppressing them. Be this as it may, in a mass of writings embracing every conceivable detail of doctrine and faith, set forth with logical precision, it was not difficult for an expert to find points liable to characterization as errors. A royal privilege for the teaching of Lullism, issued by Pedro IV. in 1369, shows that alread} T opposition had been aroused, and in 1371 Eymerich went to Avignou, where he obtained from Greg- ory XL an order for the examination of Lully's writings. On his return the king peremptorily forbade the publication of the papal mandate, but the irrepressible inquisitor in 1371 sent twenty of the inculpated books to Gregory, and in 1376 he had the satisfaction of exhibiting a bull reciting that these works had been carefully investigated by the Cardinal of Ostia and twenty theologians, who had found in them two hundred (or, according to Eymerich, five hundred) errors manifestly heretical. As the rest of Lully's writ- ings must presumably be erroneous, the Archbishop of Tarragona was ordered to cause all of them to be surrendered and sent to Eome for examination. Then King Pedro again interposed, and asked the pope to have any further proceedings carried on in Bar- celona, as Lully's works were mostly in Catalan, and could best be understood there.* Eymerich triumphed for a time, and in his Directorium In- quisitorum he gives full rein to his hatred. Lully. he says, was taught his doctrine by the devil, but, to avoid prolixity, he enu- merates only a hundred of the five hundred errors condemned by Gregory. Some of these trench on mystic illuminism, others are merely extravagant modes of putting ordinar} r propositions. For the most part they hinge on the assertion, condemned in the ninety- sixth error, " that all points of faith and the sacraments and the power of the pope can be and are proved by reasoning, neces- 259— Pegnae Append, ad Eyineric. pp. 67-8. — Bofarull, Documentos, YI. 360.
 * Pelayo, I. 499, 528.— Hist, Gen. de Mall. III. 85.— D'Argentre I. i. 256-7,