on the other hand, make the ministers of Satan instruments of the Holy Spirit.  But if they speak their real sentiments, let them answer me sincerely, what nation or place they consider as the seat of the Church, from the time when, by a decree of the council of Basil, Eugenius was deposed and degraded from the pontificate, and Amadeus substituted in his place.  They cannot deny that the council, as far as relates to external forms, was a lawful one, and summoned not only by one pope, but by two.  There Eugenius was pronounced guilty of schism, rebellion, and obstinacy, together with all the host of cardinals and bishops who had joined him in attempting a dissolution of the council.  Yet afterwards, assisted by the favour of princes, he regained the quiet possession of his former dignity.  That election of Amadeus, though formally made by the authority of a general and holy synod, vanished into smoke; and he was appeased with a cardinal’s hat, like a barking dog with a morsel.  From the bosom of those heretics and rebels have proceeded all the popes, cardinals, bishops, abbots, and priests ever since.  Here they must stop.  For to which party will they give the title of the Church?  Will they deny that this was a general council, which wanted nothing to complete its external majesty, being solemnly convened by two papal bulls, consecrated by a presiding legate of the Roman see, and well regulated in every point of order, and invariably preserving the same dignity to the last?  Will they acknowledge Eugenius to be a schismatic, with all his adherents, by whom they have all been consecrated?  Either, therefore, let them give a different definition of the form of the Church, or, whatever be their number, we shall account them all schismatics, as having been knowingly and voluntarily ordained by heretics.  But if it had never been ascertained before, that the Church is not confined to external pomps they would themselves afford us abundant proof of it, who have so long superciliously exhibited themselves to the world under the title of the Church, though they were at the same time the deadly plagues of it.  I speak not of their morals, and those tragical exploits with which all their lives abound, since they profess themselves to be Pharisees, who are to be heard and not imitated.  I refer to the very doctrine itself, on which they found their claim to be considered as the Church.  If you devote a portion of your leisure, Sire, to the perusal of our writings, you will clearly discover that doctrine to be a fatal pestilence of souls, the firebrand, ruin, and destruction of the Church.