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INTOLERANCE OF ROMANISM, 299tics and schismatics," says the Catechism of Trent, " are excludedbecause they have departed from the Church ; forthey no more belong to the Church than deserters to thearmy they have left. Yet it is not to he denied that they areunder the power of the Churchy as those loho may hecalled hyher to judgment^ punished^ and condemned hy an anathema^*In short, like deserters from the array, on being retakenthey may be shot. And thus, as Blanco White remarks," the principle of religious tyranny, supported by persecution,is a necessary condition of Roman Catholicism : hewho revolts at the idea of compelling belief by punishmentis severed at once from the communion of Rome.''''-f If wemay believe Bellarmine, the apostles would have burned allthey failed to convert, had they had the use of the civilpower.Their time would have been divided betwixt directingChristians in their faith and morals, and drawing uprules for the trial and execution of pagans and heretics, hadthey seen the least chance of being permitted to act upontheir plan. Think of Paul writing some such sentence asthis :— " Now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three ;butthe greatest of these is charity,"—and laying down his pen,and going straight to assist at an auto dafe!* Cat. Rom. de Symbolo, art. ix.t Prac. and lut. Evidouce against Catholicism, p. 124.