CHAPTER VII--PROPOSITIONS

Growth of Jurisdiction over Utterances, public and private 138

Influence of habitual Delation 138

Danger incurred by trivial Remarks 140

Severity of Penalties--Question of Belief and Intention 142

Special Propositions--Marriage better than Celibacy 144 Fornication between the Unmarried no Sin 145

Theological Propositions--Case of Fray Luis de Leon 148

Scholastic Disputation, its Dangers 150

Fray Luis accused of Disrespect for the Vulgate 151

Arrested and imprisoned March 27, 1572 153

Endless Debates over multiplying Articles of Accusation 154

Vote _in discordia_, September 18, 1576 156

Acquitted by the Suprema, December 7, 1576 157

Second trial in 1582 for Utterances in Debate--Acquittal 159

Francisco Sánchez, his Contempt for Theology 162

He is summoned and reprimanded, September 24, 1584 164

Again summoned and imprisoned, September 25, 1600--his Death 166

Fray Joseph de Sigüenza--Plot against him in his Order 168

Prefers Trial by the Inquisition--is acquitted 170

Case of Padre Alonso Romero, S. J. 171

Prosecutions of incautious Preachers 172

Increasing Proportion of Cases of Propositions, continuing to the last 176