Folio 264
Pius II, 1458-1464
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these present letters that the aforesaid contracts are licit and in agreement with law, and that the said sellers, yielding all opposition, are effectively bound to the payment of the rents and revenues in conformity with the terms of the said contracts. [The reader is referred to the discussion of this text given by L. Choupin in A.Vacant-E Mangenot, Dict. de théol. cath. 2 (Paris, 1905) 1351-1362 (art. 'Calliste III,' sec. ii). The Translator.]
PIUS II 1458-1464
Appeal to the General Council1
[From the Bull "Exsecrabilis,"2 Jan. 18; in the ancient Roman opinion 1459; that of today 1460]
717. The execrable and hitherto unheard of abuse has grown up in our day, that certain persons, imbued with the spirit of rebellion, and not from a desire to secure a better judgment, but to escape the punishment of some offense which they have committed, presume to appeal to a future council from the Roman Pontiff, the vicar of Jesus Christ, to whom in the person of the blessed PETER was said: "Feed my sheep" [John 21:17], and, "Whatever thou shalt bind on earth, shall be bound in heaven" [Matt. 16:19]. . . . Wishing therefore to expel this pestiferous poison far from the Church of Christ and to care for the salvation of the flock entrusted to us, and to remove every cause of offense from the fold of our Savior . . . we condemn all such appeals and disprove them as erroneous and detestable.
Errors of Zanini de Solcia3
[Condemned in the letter "Cum sicut," Nov. 14, 1459]
717a. (1) That the world should be naturally destroyed and ended by the heat of the sun consuming the humidity of the land and the air in such a way that the elements are set on fire.
717b. (2) That all Christians are to be saved.
717c. (3) That God created another world than this one, and that in its time many other men and women existed and that consequently Adam was not the first man.
717d. (4) Likewise, that Jesus Christ suffered and died not for the redemp-