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Confederacy of Catholic Powers against England.
Policy of Charles I. and Duke of Buckingham
Policy of Urban VIII
The Thirty Years' War and Peace of Westphalia
The Papal Annals become barren
Financial System of the later Popes.
Increase of Debt and annual Deficit
Poverty of the Peasantry and diminished Prosperity
Papal Government the worst in Europe
State of Rome and its Territories in the Seventeenth Century
Deterioration of Agriculture
ESSAY V.
CLEMENT XIV. AND THE JESUITS.
Qualifications for an Historian of the Jesuits
Supplementary Volume by M. Crétineau Joly
Scope of the Work.
Progress of the Reformation arrested by the Jesuits
Their Monopoly in Education.
State of Religion and Morality on the Continent
Jansenism
Result of Jesuit Dominion
Literature and the New Philosophy
Jesuit Missions to the Heathen.
Their Settlements in the New World
Charged with breaking the Rules of their Order
Their Fall in Europe inevitable
Expelled from the great Catholic Kingdoms
Death of Clement XIII. .
Meeting of the Conclave.
Division of Parties.
Cardinal de Bernis.
Instructions of French Court to Cardinal Bernis
His Character of the 'Sacred College'
Plot to bribe the Cardinals
ESSAY VI.
NEWMAN ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE.
De Maistre, Möhler, and Mr. Newman
Introduction to Mr. Newman's Book
Bishop Bull's Defence of the Nicene Faith
Anti-Nicene Fathers on the Doctrine of the Trinity
Historical Development of Infallibility
Fallibility of Infallibility.
Argument for Infallibility—its Necessity
Its Attractiveness as an Hypothesis.
Christianity perfected, while Mankind degenerated
Tests of Fidelity of Development
First Test-Preservation of Idea
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Generation and Descent of Infidelity
Fifth Test-Logical Sequence.
Sixth Test-Preservative Additions.
Deification of the Virgin Mary
'Early Anticipations' of the Fathers
Arianism its unconscious Parent
Its Motive analysed
'Additions' a Confession of Weakness
Harmony of New Testament doctrine
Seventh Test-Chronic Continuance
Intermittence of
Papal Power in Middle Ages, Conservative of Christianity.
Greatness of the See of Rome
Development of Christianity in Morality and Social Influence
Fallacy of Argument from assumed solitary Permanence of Rome
Prayers for Conversion of England to Roman Catholicism
Interpretation of
Effect of the Destruction of English Church
Christianity of the Future
ESSAY VII.
RELATION OF THE CLERGY TO THE PEOPLE.
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'Lives of the Saints'
Möhler's Argument in Favour of Celibacy
Its superior Sanctity not inculcated by Scripture
Language of our Lord and St. Paul
Passage in St. Luke's Gospel.
Earliest Christian Institutions