Letters Upon Divers Subjects in Theology; Addressed to Licentiates, Or, Candidates, for the Gospel Ministry and the American Youth in General (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1854 Excerpt: ... "An insurrection of the people delivered their Bishop. Not many days had elapsed, when the Pope was again assaulted at the altar; while his friends and his enemies were engaged in a bloody contest, he escaped in his sacredotal garments. In this unworthy flight, which excited the compassion of the Koman matrons, his attendants were scattered and unhorsed; and in the fields behind the Church of St. Peter, his successor was found alone, half dead with fear and fatigue, shaking the dust from his feet. The apostle withdrew from the city in which his dignity was insulted and his person endangered." "These were but a few of the many abuses that their Holinesses received in the city, which induced them to retire to Avignon, in France, where they resided upwards of seventy years." I remain yours, &c. Wm. M'uirr. LETTER IV. Gentlemen: It appears that after a time, the citizens of Rome repented of what they had done in banishing his Holiness from the city; they found that there was not so much wealth flowing into it; they, therefore, importuned him to return, and finally, Gregory IX. returned at their request. At his death there was an election held by the College of Cardinals, who elected Urban VI. as the successor of St. Peter; but in a few months after, they retired from the city and excommunicated Urban VI. as an apostate and antichrist of Rome, and then elected Clement VII. whom they announced to the nations as the true and rightful Vicar of Christ. It would appear that the Cardinals considered their election of Urban as an involuntary and illegal act, and annulled by the circumstances attending it, (the menaces of the Romans and their fear of death, ) and their complaints are justified by the strong evidence of probability and fact; for the conclave was intimidat...