The literary policy of the Church of Rome exhibited in an account of her damnatory catalogues. [With] Suppl. [and] Additional suppl

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Seite 65 - Inasmuch as it is manifest from experience, that if the Holy Bible, translated into the vulgar tongue, be indiscriminately allowed to every one, the temerity of men will cause more evil than good to arise from it, it is, on this point, referred to the judgment of the bishops or inquisitors, who may, by the advice of the priest or confessor, permit the reading of the Bible translated into the vulgar tongue by Catholic authors, to those persons whose faith...
Seite 352 - Trent, labours with all its might, and by every means, to translate, or rather to pervert, the Holy Bible into the vulgar languages of every nation; from which proceeding it is greatly to be feared, that what is ascertained to have happened...
Seite 245 - And when they had rent in pieces the books of the law which they found, they burnt them with fire. And wheresoever was found with any the book of the testament, or if any consented to the Lw, the king's commandment was, that they should put him to death.
Seite 69 - ... books, and being liable to such other penalties as shall be judged proper by the bishop or inquisitor, who shall also punish the buyers, readers, or printers of such works. If any person import foreign books into any city, they shall be obliged to announce them to the deputies...
Seite 344 - ESSAY on the ORIGIN and PURITY of the Primitive Church of the British Isles, and its Independence upon the Church of Rome.
Seite xxii - It was quite upon the papal system to associate really pernicious books with that which it calls heresy. Unite with what has been adduced the proposal in the next chapter to abrogate all laws ' in prejudice of the Catholick Roman Religion, and to restore, and PUT IN FULL AUTHORITY again, all old laws that EVER were in use in England, in favour of the same, and AGAINST HERESIES AND HERETICKS ;' and then conjecture, whether Prohibitory and Expurgatory Indexes, in accordance, at least, with the Roman,...
Seite 352 - Brethren, in conformity with our apostolic duty, exhort you to turn away your flock, by all means, from these poisonous pastures. Reprove, beseech, be instant in season and out of season, in all patience and doctrine, that the faithful intrusted to you (adhering strictly to the rules of our Congregation of the Index) be persuaded, that if the Sacred Scriptures be every where indiscriminately published, more evil than advantage will arise thence, on account of the rashness of men.
Seite 69 - ... to be printed, signed by the author himself, shall remain in the hands of the examiner : and it is the judgment of the fathers of the present deputation, that those persons who publish works in manuscript, before they have been examined and approved, should be subject to the same penalties as those who print them , and that those who read or possess them should be considered as the authors, if the real authors of such writings do not avow themselves. The approbation given in writing shall be...
Seite ix - Expurgatoriiu has no authority whatever in Ireland ; it has never been received in these countries, and I doubt very much, whether there be ten people in Ireland, who have ever seen it...
Seite 65 - Inquisitors, who may, by the advice of the Priest or Confessor, PERMIT the reading of the Bible, translated into the vulgar tongue by Catholic Authors, to those persons whose faith and piety, they apprehend, will be augmented, and not injured by it ; and this permission they must have in writing.

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