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 34 IITRODUCTIOS. [Boox I. ohop of Rome, and Js Ct. 2. Some Romanism ascfi ibty  a coc, othe m ; a hrge number of them si it m the  peoly, independently of a council  ave it. This see m be a 1ocal consequence of the pe's supremacy. There are ree reacm in wch he is sd to be ible, by oae who cfibe ts tfibum him. Some cribe abili to m when he decides on ft . e say he is infble when he decides x dra, or og. Wle a third cica tnk he cannot e in any of h de- cmons. Bellatone sa, "The nfiff cnot e  y ce, when he teaches the whole church in tse thin wch 1ong  faith." Pontilex, cum totam ecclesi docet in s qu ad fidera peent, uuHo casu ee test.* In the next chapter he says, Ponfifex non test ere eori jdic; id est, dum judicat, et debit qustionem fidel "The ntiff cannot e by a judic error; tt is, when judges d defines a question of fth.  He ds, in chap. v, In decrefia mo,  ees ptning to m. Thns we have the doce that the pe is inertable, when he decides resc6ng f or mos. e supse that he is infallible when he decides e cdra, or ocially. But then it is ve diffict to ascein what is meant by such a dec,ion. Indeed, the expression is often made use of to tow dust in e eyes of inquirers, and it h no unifo W of meaning. My Romsm maintn, that if a decree of e pe is received even tacitly, or if it is not objected to by the bishops, it becomes  acle of f or a ride of morals, and is considered as infallibly true. 3. e of the principal exercises of pontifical authority is the n- deation and pmscption of ceain bks offensive  the Roman see, der tho title of [s of ohiMted oks. The flint re,at one w coerced after a decree of the Council of Trent, delegang at deng  the miff. Plus IV. lost no time in preparing such a st, wi ceain rules preyed, all of which he sanctioned by the authority ot a b. The manufacture of new Indices, adapd  new emergencies, h proceeded relarly from that to the present time. These documenm are gy vuable, as ey form a perment, ated, d present monument of the docn depW d praccal dishones W of the papal system. 4. No complete collection of the papal bulls c be found in any of �e compations professing themselves such. There are many reons why some should not be published in etions issuing from a pa press. Two of the earliest bulls, in Cna Domi, do not appear in the Bullum Mum of Luxemburg. That of Innocent VIII. ast the Waldenses, in 1487, the orinal of which w desited in the pubic lib in Cambridge, and stolen from ence autfiy yea a, but printed, aud, therefore, safe in Marld's d Leger's Hissties, to be found in no papal collection. e same may be sd of the bull and I Lim ProJ2m of Sixms V. There  nong Roma is so much afraid of  her o acre d numenm, le sh can get them  e dark, at is, to her own keeping. en Rome  fly sken by e bulls of her s, h c&en have nong  do  o.

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