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Pole replied in a long treatise afterwards published under the title /Pro ecclesiasticae unitatis Defensione/ , in which he reproved the conduct of the king, and warned him of the dangers that his religious policy might involve.
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For howbeit kings may convocate a council, preside also and govern the same as concerning the human and political order, yet, saith Junius, Actiones, deliberationes, et definitiones, ad substantiam rei ecclesiasticae pertinentes, a sacerdotio sunt, a caetu servoram Dei, quibus rei suoe administrationem mandavit Deus.
"Tota illa per universam Hiberniam dissolutio, ecclesiasticae disciplinae, illa ubique pro consuetudine Christiana saeva subintroducta barbaries," are the expressions of St. Bernard. We are, therefore, at a loss to conceive how any clergyman can feel confident that his orders have come down correctly.
It binds not, then, by its own authority in his mind. And what saith the canon law itself? Sed sciendum est quod ecclesiasticae prohibitiones proprias habent causas quibus cessantibus, cessant et ipsae. Hence Junius saith, that the law binds not per se, but only propter ordinem charitatem, et cautionem scandali.
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