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be*; laftly, with all the decretifts, that it is afacrilege 

 to doubt of the authority of the pope. 



VIII. Therefore, I have no caufe to doubt that he 

 can turn evil into good, wrong into right, vice into 

 virtue, a quadrangle into a circle, and a circle into a 

 quadrangle ; in fhort, that he is above all rule, above 

 all natural and apoftolical law. I confefs, with the 

 glofla of Gratianus, that the pope can difpenfe with the 

 natural and apoftolical law-f - ; with Lewis Gomes, that 

 he can make injuftice juftice ^ ; with Baldus, that the 

 pope is all, and over all, that he may do any thing in 

 oppofition to juftice § ; with di Oftia [O ft i en lis], that 

 he can mutually change fquares and circles [], It is 

 therefore no blafphemy to affert, as cardinal Lorenzo 

 Pucci conftantly did, according to the account of 

 Varchi, in his hiftory of Florence ; that to the pope all 

 things are lawful and becoming, however unjuft they 

 may be. I can now decide without hefitation the old 

 queftions of the fchools : Whether the pope can annul 

 what is prefcribed in the writings of the apoftles ? 

 Whether he can add a new article of faith to the fym- 



* Papa eft caufa caufafum, unde non eft de ejus poteftate inqui- 

 rendum, quurri prima? caufbe nulla fit caufa. Bald, in cap. Ecclef. 

 ut lite pend. 



f Papa poteft difpenfare contra jus naturale et apoftolicum. 

 Glofta Grat. cap. x\% q. 6. Autoritatem. 



% Papa poteft ce injuftitia facere juftitiam. Gomes in Reg. can- 

 cell. 



§ Papa eft omnia et fuper omnia. — Papa fupra jus et extra jus 

 omnia poteft. Bald* in Leg. Barbarius de ofiic. Prset. et in cap. 

 Cam fuper de cauf. es pofTeff. 



jj Papa poteft mutare quadrata rotundis. Oflienf. in capit. Cum 

 veiii/Tent de judic. 



ddi feolical 



