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I haue good cause rather to beleeue Cardinal Cusanus, who semeth to haue examined this Decree farther, and more exactly, th••n these two late writers haue done. For thus he reciteth the Later parte of the Decree, as it is in the Original, out of Burchardus: Sic enim Apostoli sta∣tuerunt, & sancta Romanae tenet Ecclesia, & si hoc negle∣xerint, deg••adentur. Let al communicate, that were
present at the Consecration (saith the Decree) for so the Apostles haue ordeined, and so the holy Romaine Cur∣che holdeth, and if they omitte it by contempte, lette them be degraded (or deposed) from their Degree. Cusa∣nus willeth the worde, Degradentur to be weighed, and thereof gathereth, that the Decree speaketh only of them of the Clergie, that were present at the Conse∣cration, and were admitted into Sancta Sanctorum, the holy place, where none came, but such as were in Ec∣clesiastical Orders, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, that is to say, of the Clergie, as they are called in the. 9. Ca∣non among the Canons of the Apostles, whereunto the Decree maketh relation. Hereof I haue spoken suf∣ficiently (beside the place of my Confutation aboue mencioned) in my first Reionder. fol. 220. a. and againe, fol. 308. a. Thus you remaine stil charged with this Vn∣truthe. For it is not inough to say what is written, but to discerne what is best written.
Nicol. Cu∣sanus epi. 7. ad Cle∣rum & li∣teratos Bohemia. Degra∣dentur
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