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THE
TEMPORAL
POWER
OF
THE
POPE.
power,
and
perhaps
also
a
motive
for
exercising
that
power;
and
the
reverence
in
which
the
character
of
the
pope
was
held
by
princes
and
nobles,
as
well
as
the
people,
gave
great
conse-
quence
to
the
decisions
of
the
pontiff,
right
or
wrong,
and
insured
prompt
obedience,
when
otherwise
there
might
have
been
hesitancy
and
even
calcitration.
No
doubt,
the
temporal
power,
conferred
by
temporal
consent
and
by
a
constitution,
was
mistaken
for,
and
admitted
by
certain
weak
persons
at
that
time,
as
the
spiritual
power
conferred
by
Christ
and
sustained
by
the
Scriptures.
But
nowhere
is
the
right
to
such
power
claimed,
as
of
divine
right,
by
the
Catholic
Church.
In
the
Catholic
Church,
as
in
all
other
Churches,
there
have
been
found
a
few
indi-
viduals
of
less
discretion
than
zeal,
who
have,
from
a
mistaken
view
of
the
Christian
duties,
thought
it
a
merit
in
themselves
to
impute
to
religion
a
direct
secular
power
which
it
was
never
intended
by
God,
nor
understood
by
good,
prudent
men,
to
exercise.
We
see
it
in
the
careless
writings
of
certain
Catholic
scholars,
as
we
find
in
the
preaching
and
discipline
of
many
other
denominations.
But
in
the
Catholic
Church
those
individual
opinions
have
been
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CHANDLER’S
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discountenanced
by
the
bishops,
and
in
other
Churches
they
have
grown
much
out
of
prac-
tice;
by
all
they
are
considered
as
rendering
unto
God
the
things
which
are
Cesar’s.
The
assertion
by
individuals,
or
the
practice
by
a
few
popes,
of
any
power,
does
not
make
that
power
right.
That
only
is
of
faith
which
is
80
declared,
and
which
is
for
all
times
and
all
circumstances.
The
most
distinguished
instance
of
the
exer-
cise
of
the
papal
power
of
deposing
a
monarch
is
that
by
Gregory
VIL,
[Ganganelli,]
who
ex-
communicated
and
deposed
the
Emperor
Henry
IV.
The
peculiar
character
of
these
times
I
have
already
noticed.
The
peculiar
character
\
of
Henry
may
be
learned
from
history.
He
was
corrupt,
venal,
turbulent,
cruel,
blasphe-
‘mous,
hypocritical.
He
had
violated
his
coro-
nation
oath,
and
was
engaged
in
enormities
that
drew,
from
every
part
of
Germany
and
the
north
of
Italy,
appeals
to
the
pope
for
the
exer-
cise
of
those
powers
which
the
pontiff
held
from
the
emperor;
and
when
the
pope
was
ex-
ercising
his
admitted
legal
powers
against
the
emperor,
Henry
called
a
council,
and
caused
to
be
passed
and
promulgated
a
sentence
of
depo-
sition
against
Gregory,
the
Pope.
Of
course