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and Antichrist.

Volume 14 from the one-column St. Louis Edition English DOCX texts, reformatted for mobile reading on Last Christian Ministries.

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Volume 14

and Antichrist.

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The pope wants to live freely now.

Antichrist.

We decree and order that it shall not be proper for those who are subject to secular jurisdiction to levy taxes and wards on ecclesiastical persons, or to demand them from their houses and all other property, at the penance of a severe ban and interdict; likewise, the ecclesiastics shall not pay all of these, except with our permission, c. 1. de immunit, eccl. lib. 6. (III, 125.) Thus the pope has torn apart God's commandment by his commandments, which is some work of his unchristian decree.