4oa pIetro g I annoys, 



ftantine called the pope a god, and held him to be one ? 

 This he did by honouring him with that glorious edict 

 [he fpeaks of the pretended donation] ; he then adored 

 him as a god, as a fuccefTor of Chrjft and St. Peter. 

 As fuch he paid him divine honours as much as he 

 could ; he worfhipped him as the living image of 

 Chrilr. *. 



VII. Therefore I make no fcruple to fay, with 

 Baldus-}-, that the pope is a god on earth ; with De- 

 cius and Felinus J, that the pope and Chrift compofe 

 together one conliftory, in fuch manner, that, fin ex- 

 cepted, the pope can do all that God can, and can be 

 judged by none ; with the abbot, that the pope does 

 what he does as God> not as man § ; with cardinal 

 Parifius, that the pope is a divine being, under a viiible 

 form || ; with Baldus, that the pope is the caufe of all 

 caufes, for which reafon his authority cannot be in- 

 vefHgated ; for, of the firft caufe no further caufe can 



* Audis, fummum pontificem a Conftantino Deum appellatura. 

 ct habitum pro Deo, hoc videlicet faftumeft^ cum eum prasclaro ilFo 

 edi£lo decoravit ; adoravit uti Deum, uti Chrifti ac Petri fucceffo- 

 rem ; divinos honores ei, quoad potuit, contulit, velut vivam Chriili 

 imaginem veneratus eft. De donat. Conftant. p. 141. edit. Lugd/ 

 anno 1547. 



f Papa eft Deus in terris. Bald. leg. ult. cap. fa fent. refcind. 



% Papa et Chriftus facient unum confiftoriuiri, ita quod, excepto 

 peccato, poteft papa quafi omnia facere, quo? poteft Deus, et a 

 nemine poteft judieari. Decius in cap. i. de coniiit. Felinus in cap. 

 Ego N. de jurejur. 



§ Abbas in cap. Licet de ele£t. Quod papa facit, facit ut Deus, 

 non ut homo. 



|[ Papa eft quoddam numen, et quaft vilibilem quendam Deum 

 prse fe ferens. Card. Paris, confti. Ixiii. n. 19s* 1. iy. 



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