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thI spiritual kingdom govern the temporal re-
public subj % Il, and force il to change its
administration. and iepose princes. and insti-
tute Others, when il cannot otherwise accom-
Plish its own spiritual good and in this sense
are 10 be understood the words Of Bernard,
Lib. Nv, de considerations, and CT BonifAce
VIII on the Exrayagsnt. Imam Sanctum. on
superiority and obedience where he says that
each word is under The power Of the Pope -
(COrPas jur. Can. ETrHv. Com, Lib Il
Tit 5. cap. ~ Their meaning is. that the
ponuH possesses himself and properly the tpir
ituEl sword; and because the temporal sword
is subjeOs to the spiritual, the Pope can gov ers
The king, or interdict the use Of the temporal
sword, when the necessity ofthe Church re
quires it.
And such is the meaning Of St. Bernard's
words, which BOnface initiates; why do you,
says be, addressing tie Pope, 'endeavor at
length to take up the sword, which you once
commanded to be put in the scabbard 2 He
who denies this Eword TO be thine. does not
sufficiently attend to the word Of the Lord, who
says thus, "Put thy sword into thy sheath"
Therefore, thy sword, and his perhaps. by thy
nod, is to be drawn out, not by thy hand +;
otherwise, if in no manner it pertains to ttee,
we cannot account for the saying Of the apos.
tie, behold. here are two swords" The
Lord does snt say it is too mHcl, but it is e..
nOugh. Each, therefore, Belongs to the
Church, namely. the spiritual sword ana the
material sword. But the latter is to be exer.
Cised for the Church, abd the former by the
Chuch. The one is to be used by the hand of
the priest, the other by the hand of the sol
but at the nod of the priest, and the command
Of the Emperor
Here, also, is to be observed, that when
heretics reprehend the Extravagant of Boni.
face as erroneous. arrogant, tyrannical-for so
they speak concering it in general--they are
to be admonished that they should consider
that those are the words of Bernard in his
books on consideration. And without praising
him, Calvin would seem to say, that Bernard
spoke in these books, as truth itself would seem
to speak.
"The third reason 1t is not lawful for
Christians to tolerate an in6del king or heree
tic, il he would endeavor to draw away his
subjects to his heresy, or to infdelty; but to
judge whether the king does or does not draw
them away to heresy belongs to the Pope, to
whom is committed the care of religion, there.
fore, il belongs to the Pope judge whether
the king is to b. deposed or not to be- deposed
The proposition oD this argument is proved
from Dueronomy xvii, wner- the peopl are
prohibited 10 choose king who is not of their
bre -hreu. that is, not jew, lest he would
draw away The Jews to idolatry Therefore,
Christians are also prohibited to choose a king
who is not Christian for that is moral pre-
cept, and supported by morai equity Again
1t is matter of danger and loss 10 chose one
not christian. and not TO depose one not II
christian therefore christians are bound not
TO suffer over them king not a Christian, if
he should endeavor to draw away people from
the faith. But add this condition for the
sake of,infdel princes, who had dominion Jver
their people before the people were converted
to the taith for il such princes do not endeayor
to take away the faithful from the path do no,
think they should be deprived Of their domn-
ion although St. Thomas thinks the contrary,
on 2. 2. quest 10; art 10; but if these same
princes should endeavor to turn people from
the faith, by the consent of all, they could and
ought obe deprived of their dominion.
Because, if Christians formerly did not
depose Nero, ana Diocletian, Julian the apos-
tate, Valens the ArIan, and the like, it was be-
cause temporal power was wanting to the
Chrisans-because, that for another reason
they could do that 10 manifest from tho apos
tie, Corinthians vi, where he commands jud
ges of temporal causes to be appointed by the
Christians, lest Christians should be forced to
plead their cause before judge who is per-
aecutor of Christians for as the newly -consti.
tuted judges could, as also the new princes
and kings could, for the same reason, If they
had strength to do SO.
"MOreover, to tolerate heretical king or an
infdel endeayoring to draw away men to his
sect, is to expose religion to the most evident
peril for such as the ruler of the city is, such
also are the inhabitants in it, Fec. K and also
this proverb, The whole world copies the ex-
ample of the king; and experience teaches the
same for because Jeroboam, the king, was
an idolator, the greater part of the kingdom
began to worship idols. Kings K; and after
the coming of Christ, in the reign of Constan.
tine, christianity Aounshed in the reign of
COnstsntinus, arianism dourished in the
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