4°4 PIETRO GIANNONE. 



bolical creeds ? Whether he has the power to enact 

 any thing as truth which is in oppolition to the evan- 

 gelical dodlrine ? Whether he has a greater authority 

 than Peter, or an equal authority with him ? Whether 

 he be the only one among all mankind that cannot err ? 

 and a thoufand other queftions of a like nature with 

 which the monks have filled a prodigious number of 

 books. I anfwer all thefe queftions with the monofyl- 

 lable, Yes. I adopt likewife the Diclata of Gregory 

 VII. with the bulls Unam Sanclam of Boniface VIII. 

 and In Coena Domini, and all of the fame ftamp in the 

 Bullarium Romanum, particularly in that which Cle- 

 ment XI. has lately publimed pro regimine urbis et 

 orbis. In fhort, I confefs, what the great Bellarmine 

 teaches : That even if the pope, by a miftake, fhould 

 enjoin vices and prohibit virtues, the church would 

 be bound to believe, that the vices were good and the 

 virtues bad, if fhe would not lin againft her confidence ; 

 for fhe is bound, in doubtful matters, to adhere to the 

 decilion of the pope, by doing what he commands, and 

 by not doing what he forbids. But, that fhe may not 

 run the hazard of acting againft her confcience, fhe 

 mull hold that to be good which he commands, and 

 that for bad which he forbids # . 



* Si papa erraflet prscipiendo vitia vel prohibendo virtutes, tenere- 

 tur ecclefia credere vitia effe bona eft virtutes malas, nifi vellet con- 

 tra confcientiara peccare. Tenetur enim in rebus dubiis ecclefia ac« 

 quiefcere judicio fummi pontificis, et facere quod ille prascipit, noil 

 facere quod ille prohibet; ac ne forte contra confcientiam agat, 

 tenetur credere bonum efTe quod ille prsecipit, malum quod ille pro- 

 hibet. Tom. I. lib. iv. de Rom. Pont. cap. 5. 



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