plete; and he will thankfully avail himself of any additional information or correction, should the opportunity be presented of using them. Criticism simply hostile will be useless.
May a light from above shine into the darkness, of which the damnatory Catalogues of Rome are both an example and a cause; and may its blessed and emancipating influence encounter less and less of effectual obstruction, either from anti-christian bigotry or from antiprotestant infatuation!
Council of Trent-ROMAN Index of Pius IV., 1564-Rules of the
Index-BELGIC Indexes from 1568 to 1570-Expurgatory Index of
1571, with Reprints, by Junius 1586, by Pappus 1599, 1609, 1611-
PORTUGUEZE Indexes, Latin and Portugueze, 1581-SPANISH Index
1583, Expurgatory 1584, the latter reprinted thrice, wholly or in part,
1601, 1609, 1611-NEAPOLITAN Index, Greg. Capuccini, 1588-ROMAN
Index of Sixtus V., 1590-Of Clemens VIII., 1596-EXPURGATORY
Index of Brasichellen, 1607, &c.-Zobelius on that Index-Counter-
feit edition of it
SPANISH Index Prohibitory and Expurgatory, 1612-Reprint in
1619-MS. notice in a copy of the original edition in the Bodleian
Library-POLISH Index, 1617-Decreta from 1601 to 1637-PORTU-
GUEZE Index Prohibitory and Expurgatory, 1624-Index by Dr.
Thomas James, 1627-SPANISH Index, Prohibitory and Expurgatory,
1632-Elenchus Capiferrei, 1632, 1635, 1640—SpanISH Index Prohi-
bitory and Expurgatory, 1640, 1662, 1666-Reprint in 1667, with
additional Decreta-ROMAN Indexes, 1664 and 1665-Pascal-
GALLICAN Arret of 1685, and Censures of Jesuitic Morality and Theo-
logy-Constitutiones et Decreta Apostolica, 1680-ROMAN Indexes,
1670 et seq.-Fenelon-SPANISH Index, Prohibitory and Expurgatory,
1707, and Suplemento, 1739-BELGIC Index of Hannot, 1714-
ROMAN, 1716, 1717-BOHEMIAN, 1726 and 1729
AUSTRIAN-BELGIC Index, manuscript and unpublished, prepared for
the Netherlands, 1735 et seq.-Bossuet and his Exposition-Roman
Indexes, 1744 and 1750-SPANISH Index, Prohibitory and Expurga-
tory, 1747-ROMAN Indexes, 1758 and 1786-SWEDISH History of
Prohibited Books, 1764-AUSTRIAN Indexes from 1763 to 1778-
Giornale Ecclesiastico from 1785 to 1798-SPANISH Indice Ultimo,
1790, and Suplemento, 1805-Subsequent censorial operations
Present force of the Bull in Coena Domini-ROMAN Indexes, 1806
and 1819-Parisian edition, 1826; of Brussels, 1828-GALLICAN
Catalogue and Arrets, 1827-Separate Decrees-Works non-con-
demned by the authors and patrons of the Papal Indexes-Roman
Liturgical books
Definition of Prohibitory and Expurgatory Indexes-Francus and James on the subject-Defence of the practice by Gretser, with the qualification necessary to render it just-Sources of the Censures.
AMONG the various principles and customs, more especially those of religion, which modern, and professedly Christian, Rome has adopted and perpetuated from the antient and idolatrous possessors of the great city and its empire, there is none in which the resemblance, or virtual identity, is more conspicuous, than in that policy, by which she has acquired, and by which she retains, her dominion over a great part of the civilized world. No instrument for these purposes, whether of fraud, of flattery, of terror, or of force, was ever refused or overlooked by her. Her code of government embraced all objects, and comprehended the most distant extremes, with all which occupied the intermediate space. The most selftormenting ascetic and the most voluptuous profligate were almost equal objects of her attention; and while to the tractable, submissive, and at
tached she presented every indulgence which was, or was believed to be, in her power, she had tortures and deaths of all horrors to gain, retain, or recover, those who either might be rebellious, or meditate rebellion. In short, to no power but modern Rome is equally applicable the encomium of the poet on the antient :
Tu regere imperio populos, Romane, memento;
Hæ tibi erunt artes; pacisque imponere morem,
Parcere subjectis, et debellare superbos.
Here is a gigantic, mysterious and long-established power, yet in existence; having indeed suffered much, and therefore the more intent upon retrieving her loss; having so far, most unexpectedly retrieved it, as, from a state of abject and imploring submission, to be put in a capacity, which she has not failed to improve, of re-erecting the two main pillars of her former domination; and, therefore, looking back, not with diminished hope, nor with inactive zeal for the future, to the bright vision of past ages, when, as the centre, or, according to her own arrogant assumption, the sun, of a mighty system, she exercised her sway over vast portions of human spirits; sending forth her energies to every and the most distant points of her dominion, and subduing to her will the entire substance and every particle of the compact, organized, and obedient mass. Such
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