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Innocent III. 13

The goods of heretics to be confiscated, &c.
Advocates and notaries not to give advice to heretics

Innocent III. 14

Decree of fourth Council of Lateran for the extermination of heretics

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Innocent III.

Gregory IX.

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General excommunication of all heretics
Persons absolved from oath of allegiance to heretics

Gregory IX. 16

MAGNUM BULLARIUM ROMANUM.

Confirmation of the Emperor Frederick II.'s laws for the extirpation of heretics, by Pope Honorius III.'s bull An. 1243. Bull of Pope Innocent IV. to the same effect • An. 1243. Bull of Pope Innocent IV. for a crusade against heretics

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An. 1254. Bull of Pope Alexander IV. appointing inquisi

tors

An. 1262. Bull of Pope Urban IV. instructing the inquisitors to exterminate the "vulpeculæ," or heretics

An. 1265. Bull of Pope Clement IV. confirming the constitutions of Pope Innocent IV. against heretics

An. 1278. Bull of Pope Nicolas III. excommunicating heretics, and handing them over to the secular arm

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An. 1317. Bull of Pope John XXII. for the extermination of the enemies of the orthodox faith

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An. 1391. Bull of Pope Boniface IX. confirming the exter-
minating laws of Frederick II.

An. 1418. Bull of Pope Martin V. condemning the errors and
followers of Wickliff, Huss and Jerome of Prague
An. 1486. Bull of Pope Innocent VIII. for punishment of

heretics

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An. 1511. Bull of Pope Julius II. anathematizing heretics . 28 An. 1520. Bull of Pope Leo X. condemning, among other errors of Martin Luther, his assertion that the burning of heretics was contrary to the will of the Holy Spirit 29 An. 1528. Bull of Pope Clement VII. for the punishment of heretics

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An. 1536. Pope Paul III.'s Bull in Coena Domini
An. 1550. Bull of Pope Julius III. against those who opposed
the inquisitors

An. 1559. Bull of Pope Paul IV. calling into exercise all
the persecuting decrees, acts of Councils, and bulls
that had ever been enacted or issued

THE SACRED COUNCILS BY LABBEUS AND COSSARTIUS.
An. 1215. The fourth Council of Lateran under Innocent
III. A General Council decrees the extermination of

heretics

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An. 1228. Edict of St. Louis, King of France, for the extermination of heretics

An. 1229. Council of Toulouse, for the punishment of

heretics

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An. 1246. Concilium Biterrense for the extermination of heretics

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An. 1408. Council of Oxford decrees that heretics are to be burned alive

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An. 1418. The Council of Constance decrees that heretics are to be burned alive

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An. 1415. Sentence of the Council of Constance against
John Huss

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An. 1415. Decree of Council of Constance that safe conducts are not to be observed with heretics

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An. 1416. Sentence of Council of Constance against Jerome of Prague

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An. 1418. Bull issued by Pope Martin V. in Council of
Constance against the errors of Wicliff and Huss
An. 1520. Pope Leo X. in his bull against Luther calls the
exterminating constitutions of the German Emperors
laudable

➡ An. 1527. The Council of Sienna, or Paris, which exhorted
Christian princes to exterminate heretics

An. 1713. Extract from the bull Unigenitus

The Prayer in the Roman Breviary to S. Thomas Aquinas
Thomas Aquinas decides that relapsed heretics are to be put

to death

Dominus Dens' definition of heresy and heretics

D. Dens-baptized heretics are subject to the Church

D. Dens decides that the rites of heretics are not to be tolerated

D. Dens shews that heretics ought to be compelled to adopt the true faith

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D. Dens affirms that heretics are justly punished by death. 55 Dr. Delahogue asserts that the Church retains her jurisdiction over heretics

✰ Bzovius' account of the persecutions of the Albigenses in the 13th century

His account of the origin of the Inquisition in the form which it assumed under St. Dominick

The sum total of the penalties inflicted by the Spanish inquisition

+ Sismondi's account of the persecutions in France in the time of Francis I.

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• Destruction of a colony of the Vaudois in the South of France in the time of Francis I.

Thuanus records the decree enacted for the destruction of the

Vaudois

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Mezerai's account of their persecution

Pope Pius Vth's letter to Charles IXth, King of France,
exhorting him to persecute the heretics

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Mezerai's account of the Massacre of St. Bartholomew
Davila's, Thuanus's, and Fleuri's account of the same event 68
THE CORRUPTION OF THE NICENE AND ROMAN CHURCHES.
Prefatory Remarks

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THIRD CENTURY.

Mosheim's Ecclesiastical History; corruptions of the 3rd
Century

Origen's account of the pride of the clergy

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Origen's regret that the churches should be given to
avaricious and irreligious bishops and presbyters
Eusebius' relation of the sloth, envy and enmity which pre-
vailed in the Church in the 3rd Century

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Cyprian's lamentation over the decay of piety in the Church 76

FOURTH CENTURY.

Mosheim's account of the superstitions of this age

St. Gregory Theologus' account of the worldly-mindedness
of almost all the clergy.

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St. Gregory Theologus relates that the clergy were armed
against the clergy on account of the Arian heresy

St. Gregory's account of the unfitness of many of the clergy
for their office

Chrysostom complains that virtue is so rare

Chrysostom complains of the violation of the precepts of
Christ

Chrysostom gives a most awful description of the abominable
moral corruption at Constantinople
Chrysostom compares the Church to a ship in a dreadful

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Chrysostom complains of the number of wolves in sheep's
clothing
Chrysostom complains of the disorderly and improper
conduct of the congregations in the churches

St. Salvian, a priest at Marseilles, complains that the Chris-
tians were worse than the Goths and Vandals. As he
lived an. 480, his description more directly applies to
the 5th Century, but such general corruption in the
5th Century, must have been preceded by great cor-
ruptions in the 4th Century

St. Salvian laments the almost universal corruption in
Africa and at Rome

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St. Salvian says that the Romans in Aquitaine were worse than the barbarians

St. Basil describes the Church as being in a state of unspeakable disorder and confusion through the Arian heresy

He laments the absence of love among the brethren

He says that not a trace of their former peace remains among
Christians

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Basil says that hardly any part of the world has escaped the conflagration of heresy.

Jerome laments the depravity of his age
Cyril of Jerusalem says that the Church is full of concealed

heretics

Vincentius Lirinensis states that the Arian heresy had contaminated almost the whole world.

An ancient writer of the 4th Century states that one time the
heretics possessed all the churches

Sulpicius Severus laments the general corruption
Augustine says that the wheat groans among the tares
Baronius speaks of the miserable state of the Church
Liberius, bishop of Rome, subscribed the Arian heresy
At the election of Pope Damasus at Rome, the people
fought and many were killed in the church
Baronius says that in the year 371 the Eastern Church
was in such a state, that if God had not left a seed,
it would have been like Sodom and Gomorrha
Letter of Meletius, in Baronius, wherein he states that in
the East the greatest blasphemers are elected to be
bishops

St. Gregory Nazianzen (or, Theologus) derides the pride of
the bishops

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He complains that he has to contend with heretical and

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He complains that all sorts of ungodly people are admitted into the clerical office.

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wicked pastors

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He eulogises and describes the awful fanaticism of the monks
Jerome's account of his own fanaticism and its fruitlessness
Mosheim's description of the fanaticism of this age

FIFTH CENTURY.

Baronius depicts the turbulent state of the Roman Church
440
year

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Baronius relates the innumerable evils which occurred at
Rome at the election of Laurentius, An. D. 498
See what St. Salvian, who lived an. 483, says of the general
corruption of this century, to which his description
properly applies

Fanaticism of the fifth Century-Abbe Fleuri

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THE SIXTH CENTURY.

Baronius' account of the schisms and corruptions of the

Western Church, an. 540

Ibidem-a great schism, an.

548

Baronius relates how a great ecclesiastical war prevailed, ăn. 556

His account of the great schism which divided the Western

Church Gregory the Great's account of the great corruption which prevailed among the prelates and clergy towards the close of the sixth Century

THE SEVENTH CENTURY.

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Mezerai's account of the superstitions which prevailed in France, and of the ordination of bad prelates, an. 613 122 Baronius' account of the corrupt state of the Greek Church,

an. 642

From Labbeus' Councils, simony and immorality in the prelates and clergy of the Spanish Church

Ibidem, irregularities and immoralities among the Portuguese clergy

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Ibidem, gross clerical ignorance

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Baronius relates that in almost all the states and cities of
Lombardy there was a Catholic, and an Arian bishop 127
Platina relates that in Sabianus, Gregory the Great had a
very unworthy successor, an. 605

Boniface III. obtained from Phocas the supremacy for the
Church of Rome, an. 606

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Boniface IV. dedicated the Pantheon, an. 607, to the Virgin

Mary and all the martyrs

A scene of great tumult at Rome at the election of Sergius, an. 687

Pope Honorius is condemned as an heretic by the sixth
General Council

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Dupin 129

THE EIGHTH CENTURY.

The corrupt state of the Spanish Church

Baronius 132

The very irregular conduct of many of the French bishops

St. Boniface complains of immoral priests

Mezerai 133 Baronius 134

St. Boniface complains of the sad state of the French
Church and the corruptions of the Gallic clergy
Indecorous conduct of many of the Italian bishops and

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