This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IV. (c)f tfie 212Soun& in tf)e afttgjt Joot of tfie DEGREESolg (c)imtcf), fofitci) fe tfiat tfie Nomination of 23isfioj>s is gtben up to tfie Hag $ofoer. LXXII. Every free society has an inherent right to elect its own officers. This right is as essential and inalienable as that of existence. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IV. (c)f tfie 212Soun& in tf)e afttgjt Joot of tfie DEGREESolg (c)imtcf), fofitci) fe tfiat tfie Nomination of 23isfioj>s is gtben up to tfie Hag $ofoer. LXXII. Every free society has an inherent right to elect its own officers. This right is as essential and inalienable as that of existence. A society which has given up to others the election of its own officers, has in so doing parted with itself, and has no independent existence; those with whom the election of its officers rests, can from moment to moment maintain or put an end to its existence. It only exists for the pleasure of another, and by his permission. Thus it has only an apparent and precarious, not a real and lasting, existence. LXXIII. Now, if there is on earth one society that has a right to exist, and this is the same thing as having a right to be free, all Catholics will certainly agree that it is the Church of Jesus Christ. For she derives that right from the 134 The Apostles chose their successors. Chap. Iv. undying promise of her Divine Founder. And that promise, which will outlive heaven and earth, is guaranteed by the words, "Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world."1 The Church of God cannot give up her government into the hands of others. She cannot in any way barter away or alienate the election of her rulers. For she cannot destroy herself; and every concession of the kind referred to is in itself null and void; it is a contract invalid from the first, a mere bond of iniquity. LXXIV. Our Lord first chose the Apostles; they chose their successors.2 And the right of electing3 those who should receive the deposit which they are bound to transmit through the world to the end of time, has always appertained 4 and always must appertain to...
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