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Rh not be required to affirm the propositions; they declared that they and all the faithful 'detested the doctrine in respect to ecclesiastical power contained in the declaration of the Gallican clergy;' they affirmed these opinions, which are destructive of the absolute primacy and infallibility of the Supreme Pontiff, to be erroneous; and that they should believe themselves to be numbered among schismatics if they were to derogate from the supreme authority of the Vicar instituted by Jesus Christ, in defining what doctrine is sound and true, and what is false and evil. 'We have consulted,' they add, 'the most learned theologians, both regular and secular; and we have not as yet been able to find even one solid ground to form a conscience which would dictate the lawfulness of teaching these propositions.' In Spain, the Inquisition issued a decree in which each proposition was branded with a particular censure. In Hungary, in the year 1686, the propositions were condemned in the following words. After