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—;98 FOUNDATION AND EXTENT OF THE SUPREMACY.Pope Boniface VIII. was a much more logical expounderof the Papacy than those who now-a-days would persuade usthat it is purely spiritual. In a bull " given at the palaceof the Lateran, in the eighth year of his pontificate," andinserted in the body of the canon law, we find him claimingboth jurisdictions in the broadest manner. " There is," sayshe, " one fold and one shepherd. The authority of thatshepherd includes the two swords,—the spiritual and thetemporal. So much are we taught by the words of theevangelist, ' Behold, here are two swords,*" namely, in theChurch. The Lord did not reply, It is too much, but, It isenough. Certainly he did not deny to Peter the temporalsword : he only commanded him to return it into its scabbard.Both, therefore, belong to the jurisdiction of theChurch,—the spiritual sword and the secular. The one isto be wielded for the Church,—the other by the Churchthe one is the sword of the priest,—the other is in the handof the monarch, but at the command and sufferancepriest.of theIt behoves the one sword to be under the other,the temporal authority to be subject to the spiritual power."*Whatever may be thought of this pontifical gloss, there canbe no question as toBoniface founds upon the passage.the comprehensive jurisdiction whichIt cannot be argued, then, with the least amount of truth,or of plausibility even, that this claim was the result of akind of accident,—that it originated solely in the ambition ofan individual pope, and was foreign to the genius,or disallowedby the principles, of the Papacy. On the contrary,nothing is easier than to show that it is a most logical deductionfrom the fundamental elements of the system.partakes not in the slightest degree of the accidental ;Itnorwas it a crotchet of Hildebrand, or a delusion of the age* Corpus Juris Canonici (Colonize. 1631), Extravag. Commun. lib. i. tit.viii. cap. i, " Utcrquo ergo est in potestato ecclesia?, spiritalis, scilicet,gladius, et materialis. Scd is quidom pro ecclcsia, ille vero ab ecclcsia,exerceudus."