THE

CHURCH OF ROME:

HER PRESENT MORAL THEOLOGY, SCRIPTURAL INSTRUCTION, AND CANON LAW.

THE

CHURCH OF ROME:

HER PRESENT MORAL THEOLOGY, SCRIPTURAL
INSTRUCTION, AND CANON LAW.

A REPORT

ON

"THE BOOKS AND DOCUMENTS ON THE PAPACY,"

DEPOSITED IN

THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY, CAMBRIDGE,

THE BODLEIAN LIBRARY, OXFORD,

AND

THE LIBRARY OF TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN,

A.D. 1840.

"And upon her forehead was a name written-MYSTERY."-Rev. xvii. 5.

LONDON:

JOHN FARQUHAR SHAW,

27, SOUTHAMPTON ROW, AND 21, PATERNOSTER ROW.
J. MENZIES, EDINBURGH. J. ROBERTSON, DUBLIN.

1853.

1303

d.

3

In compliance with a Requisition from the Lord Lieutenant, Noblemen, Clergy, and Gentlemen of the County of Huntingdon, the Documents and Extracts in THIS REPORT have been examined and verified by the Books deposited in the University Library of Cambridge, under the direction of the Rev. G. E. CORRIE, B.D., Master of Jesus College, VICE-CHANCELLOR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, A.D. 1850-51.

CONTENTS.

PREFACE

Requisition from Huntingdon to Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge,

with Signatures

Verification of Extracts by Vice-Chancellor

Titles of Documents

REPORT, &c.

CHAPTER I.

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On Compulsory Subjection to the Church of Rome

On Tolerating the Worship of Infidels

On the Punishments of the Crime of Heresy

CHAPTER III.*

THE INTERPRETATION OF SCRIPTURE

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