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impudence to acknowledge her own genuine indisputable productions of this infamous class. The reader who wishes to know what is fact on this subject need only cast his eye on what I have endeavoured to exempt from oblivion, in a work entitled Spiritual Venality of Rome. And he may go farther to the kindred subject of Venal Indulgences in another work of mine, if he love, and would improve, truth. The present Index forbears to offend the delicate eye of the reader with any recognition of the Roman Taxæ under the letter T, where, of course, Taxæ should be sought; and he must ferret out the information, which it is most desirable to the culprits that he should not obtain, under the entries Banck and Praxis. And these are heretical editions. Of the abundance of her own editions at the close of the fifteenth and beginning of the sixteenth centuries, beaming forth in full lustre, and in imposing array, in every Bibliotheca embracing the time, and extant at full length in the Pontifically accredited Oceanus Juris, in more than one edition, the organ of Apostolic censorship is as still as death.[1]
- ↑ The omissions, suppressions, curtailments (one class only of Roman fraud), by the highest authorities in the pontifical
