39/43 7.) Cardinal Perron adds a distinction more honorable to the first Christians, but not more satisfactory to modern princes--the treason of heretics and apostates, who break their oath, belie their coin, and renounce their allegiance to Christ and his vicar, (Perroniana, p. 89.)] [Footnote 29: Take, as a specimen, the cautious Basnage (Hist. 1350, 1351) and the vehement Spanheim, (Hist. Imaginum,) who, with a hundred more, tread in the footsteps of the centuriators of Magdeburgh.] [Footnote 30: See Launoy, (Opera, tom.v.pars ii.epist.vii.7, p. |