Question XLII. Whether it is lawful for the houses of God, or the Christian Churches, to have treasuries?

Hence surely a splendid example is drawn, by which this is proved lawful. But since many things can be objected, and by many [examples] this same thing can — and ought — to be proved, I refer the reader back to Bellarmine, book three On the Worship of the Saints, ch. 6; and at the same time I join to him [the matter of] the treasuries of that kind of the Christians’ temples, concerning which I have treated in my [work] on Mainz [Moguntiacarum rerum], book 1, ch. 32. There are treasuries of temples of another sort, into which — of old among the Gentiles too, as Seneca (Epist. 116) and Varro (On the Latin Language) attest, and among us — an alms-offering [stips] is wont to be cast; concerning which our [confrère Martín] de Roa [treats], book 1, ch. 1, On the Birthday.