A Reply to the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone's 'Political Expostulation, ' (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 edition. Excerpt: ...if they suppress what they should declare for the honor of the Deity, so the danger is great of others who insolently refuse obedience. And if" the hearts of the faithful should be submissive to all priests in general who treat Divine things properly, how much more should assent be yielded to the Prelate of the See, whom the Supreme Lord ordained to preside over all priests, and whom the piety of the Universal Church has always honored You clearly understand that no one can, by any human device, oppose the prerogative or confession of him whom the voice of Christ preferred to all others, whom the Holy Church has always acknowledged, and whom she now devoutly regards as her Pri mate." 1 Gelasii Ep. iv. ad Anaslasium, col. 893, t. ii. Hard. (2) Nine centuries later Pope Boniface VIII. published the Bull Unam Sarwtam: an account of which we extract from Dollinger s History of the Church: -- In November, 1302, Pope Boniface opened a Council, at which there were present from France four Archbishops, thirty-five Bishops, and six Abbots. One consequence of this Council appears to have been the celebrated decretal, Unam Sanctam, which was made public on November 18th, and which contains an exposition of the relations between the spiritual and temporal powers. In the Christian society, it says, there are two powers, a temporal and spiritual, and, as far as they are both in the Church, they have both the same end: the temporal power, the inferior, is subject to the spiritual, the higher and more noble. The former must be guided and directed by the latter, as the body is by the soul; it receives from the spiritual its consecration and its direction to its highest object, and must, therefore, should it ever depart...