[947] Guevara, Epistolas familiares, pp. 639-42.
[948] Cap. 13 in Sexto, Lib. V, Tit. ii.
[949] Hostiensis Aureæ Summæ Lib. III, de Baptismo § 11; Lib. V, de Judæis § 5.—S. Th. Aquinat. Summæ P. III, Q. lxviii, Art, 8 ad 4; Q. lxix, Art. 9 ad 1.—S. Bonaventura in IV Sentt. Dist. IV P. 1, art. 2, Q. 1.—S. Antoninæ Summæ P. II, Tit. xii, Cap. 2, § 1.—Summa Sylvestrina s. v. Baptismus IV, § 10.
[950] Albertus Magnus in IV Sentt., Dist. VI, Art. 10.—Duns Scotus in IV Sentt. Dist. IV, Q. 4, 5.—Summa Angelica S. V. Baptismus VI, §§ 6, 12.
The facility with which, in this matter, the Church adapted its theories to accomplished facts is well exhibited by Cardinal Toletus (Summæ Casuum Conscientiæ Lib. II, cap. xxi). After explaining that, in adult baptism, three prerequisites are necessary—intention, faith and sorrow for sins committed—he proceeds “Hæc autem non eodem modo sunt necessaria. Intentio namque ita est necessaria ut si desit actualis vel virtualis, non sit baptismus. Unde fit ut qui renuens invitus baptizatur, non sit vere baptizatus; si tamen interius consensit, quamvis metu et vi, tunc baptizatus est et recepit characterem, sed non gratiam; cogendusque est ut maneat in fide Christiana.” Thus the coerced convert was burdened with the responsibilities of baptism while denied its spiritual benefits.
[951] Archivo de Simancas, Inq., Sala 40, Lib. 4, fol. 97.
[952] Danvila y Collado, Expulsion, p. 88.
[953] MS. Informacio.
[954] Loazes, Tractatus, col. 1, 17, 45, 60-1, 62.
[955] Sandoval, Lib. XIII, § xxviii.—Sayas, Añales de Aragon, cap. cxxvii.—Danvila y Collado, Expulsion, pp. 90-1.