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in past ages, and in more modern times, has
occasioned much misrepresentation and not a
little oppression. To draw the line therefore,
and to enable the reader to discriminate the
rights annexed to these different characters, may
be considered not only as necessary in a dis-
course which treats of the Roman Court, but as
a debt due to the cause of truth and benevolence.
That such a combination of spiritual and tem-
poral power may occasion a mutual re-action on
each other, and that it has had that effect not
unfrequently, must be admitted: whether it
may not on that very account be, in some de-
gree, mischievous, is a question which we are
not here called upon to discuss, especially as this
union forms no part of Christian or Catholic
discipline; and however decorous or advanta-
geous the independence of the first Pastor be
supposed, yet it is confessedly no necessary ap-
pendage of his spiritual jurisdiction. I shall
treat of the spiritual character first, as that is the
essential and distinguishing privilege claimed by
the Roman See, and then speak of the temporal
power which it has acquired in the lapse of
ages.
Now, in order to give the Protestant reader a
clear and precise idea of the rights which every
Catholic considers as inherent in the Roman
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