LEREB8 TO BISHOP SPALDING.



reference to the extension of the jts regale, and also
the declaration concerning the ecclesiastical power,
and thJe fourprpo,-itionq therein contained, we do
eorndemn, make void, invalidate anti annd.')
  So much for substituting " (allicanis[ta" for
"Romanism." Whatever protests against papal
usurpation s few independent spirits in your Church
may have entered, and whatever freedom  from
papal domination they may have claimed, those
protests have been heeded, but with mockery, and
that freedom condemned as rebellion, and every
enactment for its attainment annulled by the Pope.
Nor has this condemnation been ever retracted;
and to-day Rome is as bitter and denunciatory
against Gallicanism-opposition to temporal power-
as it was in l690,or a was AlexanderVI. My proofs
of this are not from Protestant writers. These
briefs are from the work of Monseigneur Gousset,
Arxhbishop of Rheims, whose standing in Rome is
high and unquestionoed.
  "The clear and official announcement of the
doctrine of the Catholic Church "-the true papal
doctrine-I have- t14s given as it is set forth in the
deeds and writings of the Popes; and the proof and
conformity, that this is the doctrine of every true
papist. I might cite sufficiently to fill a volume,
from Aquinas, Bellarmine, Suarez, and a hundred
other hisorians and theologians, whose writings



   The reader will find the above in Gousset's notes to
Berger-'s Dictionaire Tdeologie, vol. iii, p. 571, et seq.
Also him obme(vations er le Prer  Artt' de 1a Declratios
de 168, in Brogawon for 4ctotier, 1854. pp. 415, set.



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