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—PUNISHMENT OF HERETICS. 137not only on notorious heretics, and those suspected ofheresy, but also on those who harbour, defend, or assistthem, or who converse familiarly with them, or tradethem, or hold communion of any sort with them.II. Proscription from all offices, ecclesiastical or civil,from all public duties and private rights.III.Confiscation of all their goods.withIV. The last punishment is death ; sometimes by thesword,—more commonly by fire.*Pope Honorius II., in his Decretals, speaks in a preciselysimilar style. Under the head De Ilereticis we find himenumerating a variety of dissentientsfrom Rome, and thusdisposing of them :— " And all heretics, of both sexes and ofevery name, we damn to perpetual infamy ; we declare hostilityagainst them ; we account them accursed, and theirgoods confiscated ; nor can they ever enjoy their property,or their children succeed to their inheritance ;inasmuch asthey grievously offend against the Eternal as well as thetemporal king." The decree goes on to declare, that asregards princes who have been required and admonished bythe Church, and have neglected to purge their kingdomsfrom heretical pravity a year after admonition, their landsmay be taken possession of by any Catholic power who shallundertake the labour of purging them from heresy .*}*We shall close these extracts from the code of Rome'sjurisprudence with one tremendous canon." Temporal princes shall be reminded and exhorted, and,if need be, compelled by spiritual censures, to discharge everyone of their functions ; and that, as they would be accounted* The above Decretals respecting heresy are quoted from the Jus Cano-NicuM ; Digestum et Emicleatum juxta Ordinem Librorum et Titulorumqui in Decretalibus Epistolis Gregorii IX. P. M. Georgii Adami Struvi,pp. 359-363 : Lipsifo et Jena?, 16SS.+ Quinta Conipilatio Epistolarum Decretalium Honorii III. P. 51. InnocentiiCironii, Juris Utriusque Professoris, Canonici ac Ecclesia?, etAcademise Tolosante Cancellarii, Comp. v. tit. iv. cap. i. p. 200 ; Tolosie,1645.