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It is necessary in every Principality well regulated to draw forth some Imposition from the Graces which the Prince accord∣eth,* 1.1 essendo necessario inogni Principato le imposizioni sopra le grazie. 'Tis also one of the sources which nourishes the abun∣dance and lustre of the Court of Rome, and keeps up at the same time the All-pu∣issantness of the Pope who grants the Dis∣pensations both with, and without Cause. This money, which comes thereof in great quantity to the Coffers of his Holiness, is an All-puissant like means to uphold his gran∣deur,* 1.2 Omnipotenza del 'oro. For as our Cardinal saith, Money is all things in ver∣tue and in power; pecunia è ogni cosa ver∣tualmente; and he that hath Money hath all, and may do all with an efficacious Power. By granting Dispensations and Graces for money, the Pope doth thereby punish those who sue them out, and this is an industrious and new means to keep up, as one may say, Discipline and the Ca∣nons, by breaking them.
If the Bishops take Money for Dispen∣sations they be null, quoth the Council of Trent, but when 'tis the Pope that grants them for Money they be good, and which is most admirable that even they would