AND THE CLAIMS OF THE ROMAN CHURCH
CONFRONTED WITH THE SCRIPTURES, THE COUNCILS, AND

THE TESTIMONY OF THE POPES THEMSELVES.

Charles

ROBERT C. JENKINS, M.A.,

Rector of Lyminge, and Hon. Canon of Canterbury, Author of the
"Life and Times of Cardinal Julian.”

"I ergo tu, et tibi usurpare aude aut dominans Apostolatum, aut
apostolicus dominatum. Planè ab alterutro prohiberis. Si utrumque
simul habere voles, perdes utrumque."-S. BERNARDI (de Considera-
tione), AD EUGENIUM PAPAM, 1. ii. c. 6.

"Stupor circumdat me super obstinatione Scholasticorum et adula-
torum Curiæ Romanæ, contradicentium omnibus antiquis historiæ
Ecclesiasticæ Scriptoribus."-EMUNDI RICHERII, Vindicia Doctrinæ
Majorum Scholæ Paris, 1. iv. p. 325.

HENRY S. KING & Co.,

65, CORNHILL; & 12, PATERNOSTER Row, LONDON.

1875.

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MARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

1876, Feb. 22.

Walker Fund.

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TO THE VENERABLE

JOHN SINCLAIR, M.A.,

ARCHDEACON OF MIDDLESEX, VICAR OF KENSINGTON,

IN GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE

OF A FRIENDSHIP OF MORE THAN THIRTY YEARS.

CONTENTS.

PART I.

THE CLAIM TESTED BY THE LAW OF PRIVILEGE

PART II.

THE PRIVILEGIUM PETRI IN THE LIGHT OF THE

FIRST SIX GENERAL COUNCILS AND OF THE

WESTERN COUNCILS (1409-1562)

PART III.

THE PRIVILEGIUM PETRI AND ITS RESULTS, AS RE-

GARDED BY THE POPES THEMSELVES

CONCLUSION

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