28 GALILEO AND HIS JUDGES. 



fallibly true, but only infallibly safe. His language 

 is not quite clear to the non-theological mind, but he 

 probably meant that the doctrine conveyed in such a 

 decree was safe, so that it might certainly be held 

 without injury to any one's faith, and that it was 

 not safe to reject it. But it is clear that he was 

 not speaking of such decrees as took place in the 

 Galileo case, but only of those which bear on them 

 the marks of Papal authority in the strict sense. 



His own words are pretty plain proof of this. 

 They are extracted from his work, " De Divina 

 Traditione et Scriptu'ra," and follow the other words 

 to which I have alluded : 



Coroll. D. Auctoritas infallibilitatis et supremum magisterium 

 Pontificis definientis omnino nihil unquam pertimrit ad causa m 

 Galilei Galilei, et ad ejurationem opinionis ipsi injunctam. Non. 

 solum enim nulla vel umbra definitionis Pontificise ibi intercessit, 

 sed in toto illo decreto Cardinalium S. Officii, et in formula 

 ejurationis ne nomen quidem Pontificis unquam sive directe sive 



securitas. Securitatem dico turn objectivam doctrinae declaratse 

 [vel simplicitea vel pro talibus adjunctis], turn subjectivam quatenus 

 omnibus tutum est earn amplecti, et 4utum non est, nee absque 

 violatione debits submissionis erga magisterium divinitus con- 

 stitutum fieri potest, ut earn amplecti recusent. 



"Coroll. C. Falsum est, auctoritatem propter quam debeatur 

 assensus intellectus, solam esse auctoritatem Dei revelantis seu 

 Ecclesise vel Pontificis infallibiliter definientis ; sunt enim gradus 

 assensus religiosi nmltiplices. In prsesenti distinguendus est 

 assensus fidei proprie et immediate divince propter auctoritatem Dei 

 revelantis ; assensus fidei quam supra diximus mediate divinam 

 propter auctoritatem infallibilitur definientis doctrinam ut veram 

 non tamen ut revelatam ; assensus religiosus propter auctoritatem 

 universalis providentiae ecclesiastics in sensu declarato." De 

 Divina Traditione et Scriptura, p. '116, et seq. Ed. 1870. 



