"The End of Controversy," Controverted Volume 1; A Refutation of Milner's "End of Controversy," in a Series of Letters Addressed to the Most Reverend Francis Patrick Kenrick, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Baltimore (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. 1856 Excerpt: ...money in the course of the proceeding, it was also true, and had been true for centuries, as his own history abundantly testifies, that in the Church of Rome nothing was done, or could be done, without money. And yet, he is obliged to admit the fact, at last, that the Universities did decide to the extent claimed by Bishop Burnet, and that if the influence of money had weight upon the one side, the influence of the Pope and the emperor, and the regard which all public professors of theology were obliged to have for their own consistency and character, must have been at least as strong upon the other; even granting, as I willingly do, that the Romanists of that day were as little troubled by strict conscience as he himself considered them. He gives, at length, the decision of the Faculty of Theology at Paris, the conclusion of which is in these words: " We affirm and determine, that the marriage with the widows of brothers deceased without children, is forbidden by the divine and natural law, so that the sovereign pontiff cannot dispense in favor of contracting such a marriage." The doctors of the Faculty of Rights decided in the. same way; that of Angers pronounced a similar judgment, and so of the others. But he states that there was dissension or trouble with them all. Doubtless there was; because the question was one of grave importance which Fleury, Cent., Tom. 27, p. 217-18. Price of Roman Consciences. 217 agitated the Church through all Europe, and great names might be found on either side. If, however, the existence of trouble and dissension in large bftdies of divines is to nullify their final decisions, he would find it hard to secure validity to the judgments of your Church for centuries together. In proof of his accusation of bribery, y...