[Footnote 28: Quod si Christiani olim non deposuerunt
Neronem aut Julianum, id fuit quia deerant vires temporales
Christianis, (honest Bellarmine, de Rom. Pont. l. v. c. 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.)]