Heresiarchi extinguendi, sapientes prædicatores catholici ibidem nati inducendi, inquisitio sub alio quodam minus suspecto nomine exequenda, &c. The advice is repeated further on. See Spec. Concil. Hisp. a J. M. 4to. Lugd. 1626, pp. 97, 104; or English translation of Campanella, pp. 165, seqq. Page xix. line 11. At" dedicated," Note Since 1830 I obtained from Mr. Rodd's collection a MS. copy of this work, of early date, which I much value. Page xxix. In the Note at the 5th line, after "ignorance," insert— See Letter to C. Blundell, Esq., prefixed to his Vindication of the R. C. Church, &c. pp. xxvii. seqq. Page 5. At the end of the Note add— He seems, however, to have overlooked the important Indexes of Brasichellen and Gregorio Capuccino. It was not till the year 1837 that I came in possession of a work which confirms the statement given above, and in the note, with remarkable aptitude and precision. The reader need not be reminded of the value put upon the productions of Dr. THOMAS JAMES by the writer of these pages. The work to which he alludes is A Manuduction or Introduction unto Divinitie: containing a Confutation of Papists by Papists, throughout the important Articles of our Religion; their testimonies taken either out of the Indices Expurgatorii, or out of the Fathers and ancient Records, but especially the Manuscript. By THOMAS JAMES, D.D. &c. This marke noteth the places that are taken out of the Indices Expurgatorii; and this, a note of the places in the Parchments [i. e. MSS.]. Oxford, 1625. 4to. pp. 144. On the most important articles of difference between the two churches, the writer has almost totally confined himself to the evidences which are pointed out. And, certainly, the most conclusive and striking are the passages from the Indexes, condemning, in the writings of the Papists, those passages in which they agree with Protestants. There is, perhaps, some want of precision in the neglect to specify in what Index the alleged passage is to be found. But it will appear to the attentive reader, that the doubt can be only between a few-the Antwerp of 1571, that of Madrid in 1584, that of Naples in 1588, that of Brasichellen in 1607, and that of Madrid in 1612,—all expurgatory. So that if a cautious reader should wish to get on solid ground, he need only refer to the appropriate indexes of the first four Expurgatories, which are of contracted length; and should he not find the passage in request there, he will not be likely to lose his labour by an ultimate reference to the last more bulky and complete Spanish Index. Dr. James intended the work simply as a specimen, or first edition (p. 66); and, had he been encouraged, would doubtless have carried out the plan to a large extent. But there were cold Protestants then, and false ones too, as there have been long, and are, while I am now writing, 1842. The work, although very incorrectly printed, is a rich treasure. Oxford ought to give a collected, corrected, and critical edition of his English works. would redound far more to its honour, and the benefit of true literature, than the mass of partly dubious, and partly pestilent matter, to which Alma Mater has lately given birth. It Page 6, line 9, affix Note. In a work, of which, though long in the pursuit, I did not obtain possession till the year 1835, Notitia Indicis Libb. Expurg. editi per F. J. M. Brasichellen, &c. a NIC. ERN. ZOBELIO. Altorf, 1745; the following definition, in accordance with what appears above, is given (p. 5): Qui prodierunt indices ex Romanensium cœtu, vel prohibitorii sunt, vel expurgatorii. Illi libros designant, quorum lectio penitus interdicitur. Expurgatorii contra indicant, quid libris noviter edendis, de episcoporum inquisitorumque consilio, addendum, detrahendum, mutandum, subrogandumque sit. Atque hi libri, ad horum indicum designationem expurgati, absque ullo conscientiæ offendiculo legi permit tuntur. Page 9. At the end of the Text add The whole merits and justice of the case have been long and almost unanimously settled, and were never more satisfactorily expressed than by Horace in the well-known lines: -: Si mala condiderit in quem quis carmina, jus est, Page 13. At the end of Note add He who would go deeper into the subject will find ample and satisfactory materials in the Collectio Judiciorum de Novis Erroribus of the learned and laborious C. D'Argentre, tom. i., which extends from the year 1100 to 1542. Under the year 1498, pp. 340, 41 (2d set), is a remarkable censure by the Theological Faculty of Paris, who seem to have been at the time the most active censors, of John Vitrier, a Regular of the Friars Minors of Observance, which discovers the opinions then current of the profligacy of priests and nunneries. The 16th, and last, condemned proposition is, the declaration of the writer, that he would rather be guilty of homicide than unchastity. The censure is, that the proposition-scandalosa est, falsa, præbens occasionem homicidii, reparanda, si fuerit prædicata. The university theologians, doubtless, apprehended an extended and alarming slaughter among their sacerdotal brethren, should such a sentiment prevail and be acted upon. The word reparanda, which is frequently repeated, is to be understood of correcting, or recanting, and seems to be derived from a meaning given to the word reparar, in Spanish, and somewhat savouring of Inquisitorial origin. See Du CANGE, or ADELUNG. DUPIN, in his Eccl. Hist. of the Fifteenth Century, ch. viii., which gives an account of errors condemned in that century, principally by the Faculty of Theology in Paris, is full, and quite enough to satisfy those who have not access to the more inaccessible work just referred to. Page 17, note at line 9 after "articles." About 1521, when Henry VIII. wrote his Assertio against Luther, POLYDORE VERGIL writes of him, that—veritus ne uspiam labes aliqua religionis fieret, primum libros Lutheranos, quorum magnus jam numerus pervenerat in manus suorum Anglorum, comburendos curavit, deinde libellum contra eam doctrinam luculenter composuit, misitque ad Leonem pontificem. Hist. Angl. lib. xxvii. pp. 56, 57, Lugd. Bat. 1651. See likewise D'AUBIGNE'S Hist. of the Great Reformation, vol. iii. pp. 118, 119: London, Walther, 1841. In the Note line 10, After "LOTTHERUS," insert It should seem, however, by the respective dates, the first being November, and the other August, that the order should be reversed. It is a matter of no great consequence. At the end of the last Note add In ARNOLD'S Chronicle, republished in 1811, the last article in the Names of y Balyfs, &c., under the year 1520, has the following sentence, 'This yere one Luther was accountyd an eretych, and on a Sonday, that was the xii day of Maii, in the presence of the Lorde Legate, and many other Byshops and Lordys of England, the sayd Luther was openly declared an heretych, at Powles crosse, and all his bokes burnyd.'-P. iii.' One Luther' is remarkable as a second instance: we have heard of one Milton.' Page 19, in the 1st line of Note After "Concil." add- iii. pp. 727, et seqq. After the second Note, add copy of this The list is re A rather imperfect, but in the main, sound rare book, came into my possession in 1833. stored in the last handsome and praiseworthy edition of the Martyrologist, but is erroneously placed under the year 1546 instead of 1539. Vol. v. pp. 566–68. It is true that Foxe introduces the catalogue with words expressive of uncertainty, as may be seen above. But he places them immediately after Certain injunctions,' dated November 6, 1539, and the catalogue would have more suitably followed the same injunctions in the new edition, pp. 258-60. In fact, Foxe's notation of time, though indistinct, is deprived of the little meaning it has. Wolsey's bigoted and persecuting horror of Lutheranism strongly discovered itself on his death-bed in 1530. CAVENDISH's Life of him, Singer's edition, vol. i. pp. 321-24. Page 22. After the Note * add STRYPE, Memorials, Ch. 63, vol. v. p. 270, ed. 1816. |