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120 employed for the mmt object. The ttujMty of a papid pxoduo- tion wu never esteemed a valid aigument agvi&st He g^uine- •nemi And againet all thii l^ypotheiw we haye buide$ Baluie^ enm M8&» Alborietiay Wemel, aad Agrippo» the authoiriiif of Iftimtori, Rer. ItaL Script iii., part ii., p. 585, ecL Milan, 1734^* and that of the bull of Sixtua, of which I have just given an Rccoirnt. ThiR, I think, is satisfactory, though I couUl have dwelt ivith advantage upon the testimonj of the eccentric, but eminently learned, Agrippa. See de Van. Sclent, ch. de Jure Ganeiuco» where he aays» of the meet prominent of papal pei^ tinnaneei^ in htferarum pcmU IftOMlam nt /uonim^i* Bower, ill hieluMfy waj^I impute nothing wone— has done no more then repeat the objeetioDs of Beluae. But as the sentence used by Sixtus corroborates that of Clement, so docs tlic hitter the former. Still, the chief point which attracted my attention was, the peeimiary character of the spiritual transaction — the SPIIU- TUAL TAXss — thc Specimen attbrded of the close, the insepar- able, the unremitted connejnm, in the Italian church, between m FArm and thb Tuasubt* ticus, p. 26. Muratori transcribes the hull. t A^rippa was a sotind son of the church, if adoration of thc corpo- «J pw s c p oo Inthe Buofa«rist> aadthedeslgnaticiiof Lntherasabcfletle will make odc. See the chapters. De Imaginlhm, and De Arte Leiwtkh The first edition has no nombtin» either for foli* or oh^teia. moMAM xMOTT, rmiMTtt, aiftaiimiAM. •
 * I owe this infonnatloa to Three Capital Qffencet oj Rome, by Hue-