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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 the 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*
- I owe this infonnatloa to Three Capital Qffencet oj Rome, by Hue-
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. •