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malicious and abominable sect of
malignants,” if they “refuse to abjure, to be
crushed like venomous snakes.”—Wylie, b.
16, ch. 1. Did this haughty potentate expect to
meet those words again? Did he know that
they were registered in the books of heaven,
to confront him at the judgment? “Inasmuch
as ye have done it unto one of the least of
these My brethren,” said Jesus, “ye have done
it unto Me.” Matthew 25:40.
This bull called upon all members of the
church to join the crusade against the
heretics. As an incentive to engage in this
cruel work, it “absolved from all ecclesiastical
pains and penalties, general and particular; it
released all who joined the crusade from any
oaths they might have taken; it legitimatized
their title to any property they might have
illegally acquired; and promised remission of
