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86 A Conference of Theologians.
Roman Catholics, on the other hand, we would
say, "Throw off prejudice; if your Church
has not acted as you maintain, ".errante clave"
qua the faith, has she not faltered in charity ?
Has all been love on her ? part O, be wise at
least in this your day, for never was the future
of your Church so completely in your own
hands as it is at present ; every session in
Parliament declares it, the appointment of
Roman Catholic judges in England of itself
shows how the religious antipathies of the last
three centuries have ceased to
operate. And
say not, think not, that England is openly and
obstinately separated. But what if she were?
what would a wise policy suggest ? Thus
we read "that (A.D. 1560) Pius IV. sent the
Abbot Martinenzo to the Queen Elizabeth, to
invite her and her bishops to the Council, and
although the Pope was reminded that to send
nuncios into England and to
princes elsewhere
ivho do profess open separation from the See of
Rome icould be a disreputation to him, yet he
answered he would liumble himself to heresy in
regard that whatsoever was done to gain souls
to CHRIST did beseem the See. For the same
reason also he sent Canobius into Polonia with
design to make him into Muscovia to invite
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that Prince and nation to the Council, though
they have never acknowledged the Pope of Rome,
and afterwards speaking of the Council in Con-