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in hâc parte deliberandi, ut premittitur offeratur'). Of course, in all these practical dissolutions of marriage, the Church which pronounces marriage a sacrament never professes to dissolve this, but always puts forward some flaw which it is the duty of canonists to invent as the ground for declaring ipso facto null and voill the contract in question. This may be distinctive of the ability of the doctors, but does not remove the immorality of the proceeding. It would be desirable, however, to see the original text of the dispensations in the cases of Henry of Castile and Casimir of Poland, and so to judge by what quibble acts were justified which, so far as we can judge, are infinitely more outrageous than the concession to grave expediency once made by Luther, and which Romanists are never tired of hurling at his head. See also Geschichte Polens in Heeren and Ukert's Collection, vol. xi. p. 332, for some criticisms on Theiner's documents.