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 �mo. g Rota C.diic thceloian. there is a verlety of opi. .mo. respectl-g the nature of' this char'ter, mrk, or . Dumndes � esches that it is & mere  d,o. Scotus caJls it a  f/dfioo; others call it a Ii&b y, others   e c  dec,ion  ble, it mt dide e ea for ever Cc8. CMr  n  says Cet, h  im o a ent; ohr, wch tebfii flows, b , nd , wMch fio m ccr, b uer thhff.f He feore 8 t cer h n m M ec dena. , in non  , c, 1. It is a k iey  in e mln ecg it y, wch c  s of ing e8ic. 2. As cr i8 ieble,  it b  een  the rrote, who bye no ec dep or 3. The c of Trent es it in e ul. Fe8 8at t chmcter is not 8 re lati  ren, nsic denoon. Neier i8 it 8 re la, but   oot. It is not placed in the mind under any �ormfd reason 0� the �It is theretore under the �ormal reason of the t0d. The Tim- mists, in opposition to the opinion of tho Scotists, who place it in tho will, maintain that it hath its seat in the/t. Ferraris, who takes the side of the Scotists here, argues, "that the sign of obligation oufht to be placed in that power on which the oblittion is !aid; but the oh* ligation of the soul to Christ, which i8 contracted by baptism, &c, placed in the will, and not in the intellect; when the intellect, ms a necessar power, and determined to one thing, is not eapeble o obey. 'ni precept or taking obligation; then because character ought to be pl&ced in that power which moves all the other powers, and moves to the acts for which all the sacraments were couferred, and this power mtmt be the w4_11, the supreme sorernor of all the other powers." Again: "Character," says Collet, "is a reef eu/fy, to which is nexed a multiplex relation. It is a form or mark indelibly impressed. sealing the obl/gation of keep/ng the law, usimilating the �a/th/ul to one mother who are impressed with the same nmrk, .a remaining the glorified as an ornament. These things can only apply to a md mdy, and not to a pure relation, the whole power of which is to refer sue thing to another .... This character, as a permanent quality, feeting properly its subject, and determining it to oomethin rsl, can be reduced to a Thus some place character in an  groom/frei/os, others in � rum at/oft, others in an ab0/ mur/y; others, w/th father Coamyer, in the/n/m'a/ty of the sac .rnent itsel/'. Protestants allow mul mmnmin that bept/mn may be d/ from the eucharist in its being 8mlnistered to the esmo Pemon only mice, whereu the eucharist is to be administm o/ken; yet the reason for this is not any such character as the Roman Cathollm mintre, �&. See Forrarb ou 8eenmontum, art. ii, No. 6. . . In Secrmemtum, m. , Hoe. 88, 87. � supra.
 * Dist. 4, Quoet. 4. t Cobt, do 8Mr., e. , m i, md. i, yd. iv, p. 110.

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