21. In every respect they shall render obedience to our vicar forane.

22. Finally, mindful of the duties of their ministry, and of the

very exact account which God will demand from them for the souls of

every one of their parishioners, they shall instruct their people, by

deed and by word, until the true idea of Christian life is formed in

them--stimulating in them love and obedience to our Catholic monarch,

who has conferred upon them so great benefits and loves them with a

father's tenderness, and to the venerable ministers who govern them in

the name of God and of so great a king. At the archiepiscopal palace

in Manila, on the twenty-fifth of October in the year one thousand

seven hundred and seventy-one. [130]

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