# How The Inquisitors Delivered The So-Called Heretics To The Secular Judges.

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Having condemned these people as heretics, after
they had suffered a long season of misery, the inquisitors
make a show of mercy, and deliver them
to the magistrates, with these words: “Whereas the
Lords of this holy Tribunal (the inquisitors), have
exerted all proper diligence, to bring back this seduced
person into the bosom of the Roman church,
and have nevertheless accomplished nothing, he
constantly remaining obstinate in his opinion, we
hereby deliver him into the hands of the secular
judge, to be punished according to the extent and
import of the Roman laws. Still, we sincerely pray,
that, if he show any sign of confession and repentance,
he be treated with all clemency and mercy.”



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