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contrives to keep out of sights and throws out
the other Court to amuse and bewilder the
reader. Bat of the Book. In case there
was the least real ground-work for this vile
book^ which I cannot find there was/ — it
possible to believe such ignorance sincere ? even
the Protestant prefctces would satisfy any ra^
tional nuiii^^^ the money paid into the papal
Chancery could be nothing else but the feee of
office, on restoring certain culprits to the civil
priDileges which they had forfeited by theit
crimes.*' If Dr. Milner were reaUy ignorant,
to write in this dogmatic way would be dis«>
honest ; because he must be sensible of his in*
competence to decide: and if he knew the
truths his delinquency was still greater. But
who^ that^ for a moment^ glances upon the ca-
talogue set before him in this pubhcation, tm.
persuade himself, that the articles express
nothing but innocent fees of office? Why
not then fairly published? Why, as is af-
firmed, condemned ? Why was C. d'Espense,
poor scrupulous ignoramus I so shocked and
indignant ?
It is in vain, then, to conceal the dilemma
into which th^ champions of Rome are brought
on the subject of this iniquity of their churcb»
