They wished to escape the accusation and
odium of impugning the Fathers of the Church,
and yet could not tolerate some of the doc-
trines which they manifestly declared. They
imagined they had found a receipt for that pur-
pose. There is an Appendix called Prima, al-
though there is none besides, which at the end
bears the date of 1614. It is preceded by a
mandate of the same inquisitorial editor, breath-
ing the same threatenings as usual, and which,
where there is power, are formidable. It is
dated Aug. 22, 1614. Explanations of two of
the Rules close the prefatory part of the Ap-
pendix. The gratitude due from the really
Christian world to those who, like the excel-
lent and learned Turrettin in the work which
we are now dismissing, drag these productions
of degraded Rome from their dens of darkness
and expose them to eyes which can see their

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deformities^ is in exact proportion to the morti-
fication, felt and expressed, on such occasions,
by their authors and patrons.
