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This is so evident, that Papists themselves subscribe to it; for both Cardinal Cajetan and Dominicus Bannes say, that we should abstain even a spiritualibus non necessariis when scandal riseth out of them. 9th.
It seems to me beyond question that this method is reflected in the exercitiis spiritualibus of Ignatius Loyola, the chief instrument by which the Jesuits secured dominion over souls. Any one who has realised the enormous influence which Arab thought exerted upon Spanish Christianity so late as the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, will not regard the conjecture as unfounded.
In rebus tamen difficilibus, dubiis, spiritualibus, praestat mediocriter spiritualem theologum consulere quam spiritualem idiotam." See Way of Perfection, ch. viii. section 2; but ch. v. Dalton's edition. See ch. xxiii. section 6. section 9. Ch. iv. section 6. Job ii. 10: "Si bona suscepimus de manu Dei, mala quare non suscipiamus?"
Whereas he yieldeth to princes the power of governing in spiritualibus, but not in pure spiritualibus, I cannot comprehend this distinction. All sacred and ecclesiastical things belonging to the worship of God are spiritual things. What, then, understands he by things purely spiritual?