Who iffues fentences in the land of the Church Page 266 The crimes of clergymen diftinguifhed into ecclefiaftical and temporal The nature of the inquifition at Venice 267 ibid. ibid. In what cafes clergymen render themfelves accountable to the lay fovereign An exhortation to the bifhops 268 ibid. Answer to the fifth charge, that the Venetians binder the bishops from vifiting hospitals, facred places, frieries, and mounts of piety The origin of places of devotion, hofpital, frieries, mounts of piety, and the like, and who founded and endowed them 269 Remark on the litigious temper of the clergy 279 The idle pretence of the clergy to a fuperintendance of fecular fettlements ibid. & 27 Answer to the fixth charge, that the college pretends to be a judge in matters relating to benefices, and that when any one enters an action in the court of Rome, he is obliged to a renunciation ab impetratis, i. e. of the decrees he has there obtain'd 272 What are the only things which free fovereigns may not judge of ibid. The Sovereign's Right of judging, &c. in all other matters eftablifhed by the Apoftles, and the law of nature ibid. That there ought to be but one monarch in a kingdom, and but one fovereignty in a ftate, compos'd of divers members 273 ibid. Why a pagan Pontiff would not have two deities worfhiped in one temple How much the Venetians are concerned to preferve this unity of fovereignty in their republic 274 How far the Venetians concern themselves in the matter of benefices ,ibid. The ridiculous conduct of those who apply for judgment to foreign tribunals when they know they have one of their own 275 Anfwer to the feventh charge, that the Venetians oblige their clergy to pay the ordinary taxes and impofts as well as the laity Cc z ibid. Rome Rome the best place in the world for people to go to and take orders Page 275 What a fine time on it the Romish clergy would have if they could carry their point ibid. A just comparison between a fovereign prince and a River 276 ibid. 277 How Ariftotle filenc'd a prating fophift who afferted there was no fuch thing as motion The only terms upon which the clergy at Venice can expect to be tax free ibid. &c. The neceffity of the clergy's contributions towards the fupport of the ftate Anfwer to the eighth charge, that the Venetians binder the regular monks from obeying the conftitutions of their order and chapters, by being obliged to confer prelatical dignities upon fuch friers as are natives of the republic 2.78 Reasons why the natives of Venice are fitter than foreigners to govern the convents ibid. c. to 280 Anfwer to the ninth charge, that when any dispute happens among the friers, the Venetians force them to profecute in the temporal court, inftead of the tribunal of the nuncio 281 A notable faying of a woman to one of the Cefars ibid. Why Diogenes examin'd all his actions by a looking-glass 283 Anfwer to the tenth charge, that the Venetians oblige those who have a bishoprick, or other prelatical dignity conferred upon them by the court of Rome, to have recourse to the council for the poffeffion of temporalities; and that every bifhop, precognized by any but a Venetian Cardinal, Shall not obtain poffeffion, and the fee fhall remain vacant 283 That all the titles in the world to eftates are not fufficient, according to the civil law, without actual poffeffion ibid. 2.84 An account of the law uti poffidetis ut poffideatis That the court of Rome has no reafon to complain of the lay tribunal's examining the bulls of collation ibid. That the terror of excommunication is taken away by the two frequent ufe of it 285 That the Pope is better obey'd at home than abroad ibid. The politics of Venice 286, 296 A re Rome A remark on the precognizing of bishops at the court of Page 286, 287 The impoffibility of being too much upon the guard against that court 287 The examination of bishops customary at that court ibid. Answer to the eleventh charge, that the Venetians intermeddle in the affair of penfions, which, tho' already eftablifhed and approved, the fecular tribunal grants protection to debtors who refuse to pay them 288 ibid. A defcription of thofe ecclefiaftical penfions ibid. &c. What penfions are, or ought to be in their nature 290,&c. The charity of the antient prelates That the establishment of penfions was good at first 292 What juftifies or condemns all actions 291, ibid. The ftrong biafs of the prelates towards riches 223 When prelates may refuse paying the penfions 294, 295 That the court of Rome don't care any fhould prefume to interpret the Pope's bulls 295 299 ibid. &c. The tenacioufnefs of that court in matter of penfions .296 An order of the Council of Trent about penfions 297 Another about the plurality of benefices The fhifts of fome men for evading it Answer to the 12th and 14th charges, that the ordinaries of places are hindered by the Venetians from fulminating excommunication in cafes prefcribed by the canons; and that fchifmatics, heretics, whoremongers, and ufurers, are fuffered to live quietly at Venice, while the prelate is not permitted to punish them 300 A definition of the fubjection due to fovereigns 301,&c. That the examination of herefy does not belong to the fecular tribunal 303 303, 304 The defign of the court of inquifition ibid. That 'tis the intereft of the Venetians to tolerate the Greeks Whoremongers and ufurers confidered 305 ibid. &c. That That all actions which are fins before God are not pu nishable by man Page ibid. &c. to 307 'Father Paul's opinion of man's frailty 307 ibid. Adam's punishment confidered That brotherly correction, and good examples, turn more finners than all the executions of the law ibid. That St. Auguftin's fermons were not so perfuafive as his good example 308 That excommunication and imprisonment make more hypocrites than real converts Why Chrift fet a fisherman at the head of his Church ibid. 309 Answer to the 13th charge, that if any one, having a call from the fpirit, takes upon him the religious habit, the Venetians prefume to expel him upon the leaft complaint of his parents, on pretence of bis being feduced; and when any one is left in a monastery, the parents are authorized to keep bis eftate 309, &c. The method St. Bartholomew took to convert an Indian 309, &c. prince >How Daniel the Prophet dealt with the Babylonians 310 St. Ignatius's inftruction to the miffionaries Philip de Neri's exemplary contempt of wealth St. Thomas Acquinas's embracing a monaftical life jufti fy'd 313 The fenate of Venice commended for not tolerating monks who are fo from worldly views ibid. That religion gains nothing by persons being feduced to embrace it ibid. Why the mendicant friers never complain of any one's -being forced to quit their order 314 A remark upon the good laws made by St. Ignatius 315 The rule of an Apoftle's life laid down by St. Paul ibid. St. Auftin's faying of those who make the Church their heir inftead of their Children 316 Answer to the laft charge, viz. the Venetians forcing those, that fail thro' the gulph with provifions or merchandize to the Rivers of Romagna, to pay certain impofts The common punishment for running goods 316, &c. 317 When When it may be lawful for fovereigns to flop goods paf fing thro' their dominions Page 318 The right of the republick to the duties of import, and to the fovereignty of the Adriatic gulph 319,&c. to 336, to 342, to 345, to 350 • The difficulty of proving titles to poffeffion founded upon law What is the best title in the world A definition of property 320 321 343, &c. The nullity of the donations of the emperor Conftantine and the empress Maud, with refpect to the gulph Venice of 320 325, &c. to 330 That things are not to be claimed on the score of being Appendages, which are almoft, if not altogether, as important as the principal The time of the emperor Conftantine's grant of the land of the Church to the Popes The treatment of the Pope's from Conftantine's fucceffors till the end of the eighth century The emperor Juftin's and Pope Gregory's obligations to the Venetians 327 ibid. 328 Exploits of the Venetians against the King of the Lom bards, and Charles the great Against the armies of Pepin and the Moors of Africa ibid. 332 Against the people of Naranto, the King of Hungary, and Robert de Guife, with the Normans Against the Tarks and Grecians Against Roger 11. 3331634 334,335 1336 Against the emperor Frederic Barbaroffa 1337 Pope Leo's coronation of the emperor Charles the great 329 The divifion of the empire into eastern and western zibid. &c. Why the dogs. arms bear, a leather coin in their 335 The ingratitude of the western emperors to the Popes i336 The great fchifm between the Popes who excommuni cate one another 336, &c. The Venetians fovereignty over the gulph confirmed by Pope Alexander 338, &c. Remarks |
