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James & Luke G. Hansard & Sons, near Lincoln's Inn Fields, London.
Introductory remarks
The corruption of Christianity inevitable
It had to mix with existing habits and prejudices
history, therefore, a scene of errors and virtues
Its
Its improvement necessarily gradual
Intense feeling not alone a sufficient guide
Hence the Christianity of our ancestors a motley system
Paganism the great cause of its defects
Long continuance of Paganism
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Controversies on the Trinity and Incarnation, caused by it 16
Competition of Polytheism
The nature of the Deity, the great subject of discussion
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ON THE ANGLO NORMAN MONASTERIES; ON THE FRANCISCAN
AND DOMINICAN PERSECUTIONS, AND
MIRACLES OF THE SAINTS.
BELIEF IN THE
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The public benefit of the monks
Use to the unprovided class of society
Napoleon Bonaparte's young remarks on this class
The Dominican Order
St. Dominic
Establishment of the Inquisition
The Franciscan Order
St. Francis
Persecuting spirit of the Romish church
Catholic miracles
Power of self-suspension to be learnt
The profane festivals and customs continued under Chris
tianity
The vicious Christmas mummeries
The Feast of Fools
Imitation of the Pagan purifications
Pagan feasts on the tombs
The Feast of Asses
CHAP. III.
HISTORY OF THE PRINCIPAL
ATTACKS
ON PAPAL CHRLS-
TIANITY, FROM THE EIGHTH CENTURY TO THE FOUR.
Their good and evil opinions
Religious opinions of the Vaudois in the year 1100
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ANALYSIS of La Nobla Leyczon, written 1100
The Vaudois persecuted by the Pope
Their dispersion scatters their opinions through
Europe
Coincidences that began the reformation in Ar-
menia
The vernacular Scriptures the leading cause
Progress of disbelief, from the twelfth century
Principles of infidelity
Infidelity a consequence of superstition
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A philosophical book of infidelity in the thirteenth
century
Anti-religious opinions mentioned by Alanus
Critical state of the church in the thirteenth century 145
Conduct of the English sovereigns towards the Pope 146
Effect of the papal schisms
Bishop Greathead's attack on the Pope
Measures of the English sovereigns to lessen the
1343. The House of Commons also interferes
English clergy oppose the mendicant friars
And are attacked by them
The people deride them
Effect of the luxuries and vices of the clergy
The Pope condemns them
Regulations in England against them
Causes of this degeneracy
Chaucer's Pardoner
Troubadours opposition to the Pope
1284. Mendicant friars accused of heresies
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Landed property of the clergy
1240. ANALYSIS of St. Edmund's Speculum Ecclesiæ
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