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tection, assistance, or any other co-operation. To put an end to all
these disorders, we enjoin you to punish with excommunication aU re-
belUous infractors, who wiU not obey each of you in all these points,
and to employ through your chief the other ecclesiastical censures and
penalties, and all the remedies in law and fact which seem opportune
to you, so as to maintain a certain order in these measures, by re-
doubUng these censures and penalties, and having recourse, if need be,
to the secular arm. And we accord to each one of you, and to your
future successors, the full and entire power to act in consequence.
IX.
(Book Vn. Chap. II. p. 358.)
Bull of Pope Gregory XVI. (November 3, 1839.)
Elevated to the highest degree of apostoUc dignity, and fining,
although without any merit on our part, the place of Jesus Christ, the
Son of God, who, by the excess of his charity, deigned to become
man, and to die for the redemption of the world, we consider that it
belongs to our pastoral solicitude to make every effort to divert Chris-
tians from the traffic which is made of negroes and other men, who-
ever they may be.
As soon as evangelical light began to be diffused, the unfortunates
who had fallen into the harshest slavery, in the midst of the numer-
ous wars of this epoch, felt their condition become ameUorated ; for the
Apostles, inspired by the Spirit of God, taught the slaves, on the one
hand, to obey their temporal masters as Jesus Christ himself, and to be
heartily resigned to the wiU of God ; but, on the other hand,-they com-
manded th» masters to show themselves kind towards their slaves, to
accord to them what was just and equitable, and not to treat them
angrily, knowing that the Lord of both is in heaven, and that with him
there is no respect of persons.
Erelong the law of the Gospel establishing in a universal and fun-
damental manner sincere charity towards all, and the Lord Jesus hav-
ing declared that he should regard as done or refused to himself aU the