. Life and times of Girolamo Savonarola. ; failing these to his bishop or thePope ; and finally, if all the ecclesiastical hierarchy becorrupt, he must turn to Christ, who is the primary cause,and say—Thou art my confessor, my bishop and myPope ; provide Thou against the ruin of the Church ; letThy vengeance begin.—O Friar ! thou wouldst weakenthe ecclesiastical power !—This is not true ; I have alwayssubmitted and even now submit to the correction ofthe Roman Church ; I seek not to weaken, but rather toaugment its power. But I will not be subject to thepowers of Hell ; and all power that is o
. Life and times of Girolamo Savonarola. ; failing these to his bishop or thePope ; and finally, if all the ecclesiastical hierarchy becorrupt, he must turn to Christ, who is the primary cause,and say—Thou art my confessor, my bishop and myPope ; provide Thou against the ruin of the Church ; letThy vengeance begin.—O Friar ! thou wouldst weakenthe ecclesiastical power !—This is not true ; I have alwayssubmitted and even now submit to the correction ofthe Roman Church ; I seek not to weaken, but rather toaugment its power. But I will not be subject to thepowers of Hell ; and all power that is opposed to good,is not of God, but of the devil. Pie then went on to ■ Here it may not be superfluous to quote some of Fra Benedettos ideasconcerning the Church ; for this monk was one of Savonarolas mostdevoted disciples. In his Vulnera Diligentis (bk. i. ch. 19, Maglia-becchian Codex, cl. xxxiv. 7, sheet 31) one of the interlocutors is madeto say that the Church is simply a congregation of the faithful, sive XI* < < cosso. 55 W33H O H o s Cm A FAREWELL DISCOURSE. 639 discuss the great difficulties he had encountered in preach-ing his doctrines, the fierceness of the struggle in whichhe had been engaged, and the irresistible impulse by whichhe had been forced to it. Ofttimes, after leaving the pulpit, I have bethoughtme and said : I will preach no more of these things ; butwill rest quiet and leave all to God. And yet on againmounting to this place, I have been unable to containmyself; unable to preach otherwise. The message of theLord hath been as a consuming fire within my bones andmy heart ; and I have not been able to endure it, but unitas iustorum. The other speaker inquires : Why is it not abso-lutely said that Ecclesia est Papa ?—Because the Pope is not preciselythe real head of the Church, but vicar of the supreme head of the Church,Jesus Christ, that He not having remained on earth, bequeathed to hisvicar the power to bind and to loose, justly tamen and
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