400 HEtro giannone. 



V. The pope's authority is not confined alone to this" 

 globe ; it mounts into heaven and extends over the 

 angels. The queffion you propound in theology, 

 whether the pope has the command over the angels I 

 I anfwer in the affirmative without any hefitation ; for 

 all power is given him in heaven and in earth. To this 

 power the famous hull of Clement VI. relates, which, 

 with the beft critics, I hold to be genuine. Accost- 

 ing to that, the pope can exalt whom he will into 

 heaven, and to whatever ftage therein he pleafes ; and 

 he for whom he has iffued a patent for that purpofe, 

 cannot be refufed entrance into the heavenly paradife, 

 even though all the bifhops and cardinals in the whole 

 world fhould be againft his admiffion. I hold, therefore, 

 with Troilus Malvet, who teaches me : The pope has fo 

 much power in heaven, that he can canonize any de- 

 ceased man, and place him in the number of the faints ; 

 even without the concurrence of the bifhops and car- 

 dinals*. Therefore, I abhor the rath and feditious 

 outcry that was made throughout Europe, when the 

 prefent pope ordained Gregory VIII. known in feveral 

 countries under the name of Hildebrand, to be wor- 

 ihipped as a faint by the whole catholic world. The 

 lefTons for his anniverfary, in which it is afcribed to 

 him as an heroic virtue, infpired by God, that he de- 

 pofecl Henry IV. from his throne, and abfolved his 

 fubjecls from their oath of allegiance, I now no longer 

 hold for a lignal to incite nations to take up arms 



* Papam habere tarttam La coelo poteftatem, Ut quern velit 

 hominem defimctum canonizare, et in divorum immerum referre 

 poflit, etiam invitis epifcopis et cardinalibus. Tract, decanoniz. 

 fandtorum, iii. dubio. 



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