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 inserted in the Pauline and Tridentine Indexes. This latter produced a lively controversy, as it well might; for, the Advice which was given, with others, by Carafa, as Cardinal, he himself afterwards condemned as Pope Paul IV. It stands in his Index under ''Lib. inscript., and so in the Tridentine; afterwards, under Consilium''. Cardinal Quirini was beaten out of the solution, that only an edition by heretics was condemned, in his controversy with Schelhorn in 1748. And now, mark the impudent knavery of the Church of Rome on the subject. Not in the Index immediately following, 1750 — that was too soon — but in the next to that, 1758, the article appears thus: — Consilium de emendanda Ecclesia. ''Cum Notis vel Præfationibus Hæreticorum, Ind. Trid''. The Italics are a pure addition, and the thing implied necessarily by the ''Ind. Trid''. is absolute, interested falsehood, and such as could not be unknown or unintended. This excursion is worth being made.

We now rejoin our proper subject. The Consiglio is evidently Italian, and implies that