The canons and decrees of the Council of Trent celebrated under Paul III, Julius III, and Pius IV, Bishops of Rome
Council of Trent
CHAP. I.

SEeing it is more honest and safe for Subjects, by paying a due Obedience to those set over them, to serve in an inferiour Ministry, than with the scandal of their Superiors to covet the Dignity of higher Degrees, he shall be inted••∣ed by his Bishop by whom he rise to sacred Orders, for any Cause, even for any sort of secret Crime, even injudicially, or he shall be suspended from 〈◊〉 Orders, Degrees, or Ecclesiastical Dignities; no Leave granted for his pro∣motion, against the will of his Prelate, or the Restitution to his former Orders, Degrees, and Dignities, or Honours, favouring him.