The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.
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For it is with the mysteries of our religion, as with wholesome pills for the sick, which swallowed whole, have the virtue to cure but chewed, are for the most part cast up again without effect.
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