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HOSE that are counted hereticks, by Papiſts, are by law and right deprived of all they have, the Pope can authorize the orthodox members of the church, i.e. his own ſubjects, to take poſſeſſion; and whatever means are neceſſary thereunto, he can legitimate and make lawful, as poiſoning, aſſaſſinating, blowing up with gun-powder, &c.* It is an approved thing among them, a caſe deliberately determined by the infallible head of the church, that the killing of kings and queens, excommunicated by the pope, is no murder, nay that it is meritorious to deſtroy hereticks.

And, as they encourage the murder of ſuch princes as they call hereticks, ſo they have a ſolemn form of preparing an aſſaſſin for his undertaking.

The perſon deſigned for the work is ſecretly introduced into the meditary or oratory there a knife wrapped up in linen is taken out of an ivory caſe, marked all round with various characters, together with an Agnus Dei. Upon this, as it is drawn out of the ſheath, they drop holy water, and conſecrated coral beads upon the haſt, granting an indulgence of delivering as many ſouls out of purgatory, as he ſhall give wounds to the Prince