The Literary Policy of the Church of Rome Exhibited: In an Account of Her Damnatory Catalogues Or Indexes, Both Prohibitory and Expurgatory. With Various Illustrative Extracts, Anecdotes, and Remarks |
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Page 65 - Inasmuch as it is manifest from experience, that if the Holy Bible, translated into the vulgar tongue, be indiscriminately allowed to every one, the temerity of men will cause more evil than good to arise from it, it is, on this point, referred to the judgment of the bishops or inquisitors, who may, by the advice of the priest or confessor, permit the reading of the Bible translated into the vulgar tongue by Catholic authors, to those persons whose faith and piety, they apprehend, will be augmented,...
Page 281 - We fly to thy patronage, O holy Mother of God. Despise not our petitions in our necessities: but deliver us from all dangers, O ever glorious and blessed Virgin.
Page 354 - Trent, labours with all its might, and by every means, to translate, or rather to pervert, the Holy Bible into the vulgar languages of every nation; from which proceeding it is greatly to be feared, that what is ascertained to have happened...
Page 247 - And when they had rent in pieces the books of the law which they found, they burnt them with fire. And wheresoever was found with any the book of the testament, or if any consented to the Lw, the king's commandment was, that they should put him to death.
Page 346 - ESSAY on the ORIGIN and PURITY of the Primitive Church of the British Isles, and its Independence upon the Church of Rome.
Page 65 - ... have first delivered up such Bible to the ordinary. Booksellers, however, who shall sell or otherwise dispose of Bibles in the vulgar tongue to any person not having such permission, shall forfeit the value of the books, to be applied by the bishop to some pious use ; and be subjected to such other penalties as the bishop shall judge proper, according to the quality of the offence.
Page 354 - Reprove, beseech, be instant in season and out of season, in all patience and doctrine, that the faithful intrusted to you (adhering strictly to the rules of our Congregation of the Index) be persuaded, that if the Sacred Scriptures be every where indiscriminately published, more evil than advantage will arise thence, on account of the rashness of men.
Page ix - The Index Expurgatorius has no authority whatever in Ireland; it has never been received in these countries, and I doubt very much, whether there be ten people in Ireland, who have ever seen it...
Page 19 - Monuments, issued in 1539, contains a "list of Condemned Books," subjoined to certain "Injunctions." This list is omitted from the subsequent editions and is not included by Wilkins, who reprints the "Injunctions." The preamble to the list reads as follows: " Hereafter folow the names of certen bokes, whiche, either after this injunction, or some other in the said Kinges daies, were prohibyted, the names of whiche bokes folowe in order expressed : "Miles Coverdale, the whole Bible; George Joy; Theodore...
Page 69 - ... to be printed, signed by the author himself, shall remain in the hands of the examiner : and it is the judgment of the fathers of the present deputation, that those persons who publish works in manuscript, before they have been examined and approved, should be subject to the same penalties as those who print them , and that those who read or possess them should be considered as the authors, if the real authors of such writings do not avow themselves. The approbation given in writing shall be...