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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33363	The practical divinity of the papists discovered to be destructive of Christianity and mens souls	Clarkson, David, 1622-1686.	1676 (1676)	Wing C4575; ESTC R12489	482,472	463

sung to the Organ at Mass Offered to God in the person of the Church for divine praises This was the custome every where in Caietan's time and since As intolerable obsceneness in their penitential confessions What licence they give to use such things as provoke lust Also to immodest touches and shameful sights No need to be resolute in resisting Temptations How servants may minister to the lust of their Superiours Actual whoredom hath excessive incouragement The Pope builds Stews for prostitutes They pay him a weekly tribute for liberty and accommodation to drive their Trade This condemned as m●st abominable to God and man even Barbarians but the Pope consenting to it it is no sin not indecency for his holiness to be maintained by the hire of whores Many things concluded by their Divines in favour of them How punctual in deciding at what rates all sorts of women may set themselves to sale They oblige them not to restitution but when their Religious make use of them who are to have it gratis Publick prostitutes compelled by law to commit lewdness with any that will hire them Hence the people instructed in their Religion know not that such Fornication is a sin He that keeps a Concubine at home is not to be denyed the Communion Nor will they oblige him to put her away if that would impair his Estate or Delight or his Reputation yea or hers either It is enough if he promise not to sin with her though he keep not promise Adultery no sin in diverse cases For the Clergy Adultery nor unnatural uncleanness not so much a sin as Marriage Burning lust innocent Better to burn than to marry whatever the Apostle with their Adversaries say The admired chastity of their votaries consists well enough with whoredom and is only violated by Marriage Their Priests have been allowed to keep whores at home paying a yearly Rent for it And those were to pay it who took not the liberty because they might Votaries incurr excommunication for laying aside their habit but not if they lay it aside to commit Fornication more readily Priests in no wise to be obliged by Oath to forsake their Concubines Extremely few chast by their own confession of those innumerably many that profess it A Priest not to be deposed for Fornication because there are very few not guilty Priests who keep many Concubines not irregular How they favour Sodomy Married persons may practice much of it together Their Clergy may act it to the uttermost and be neither suspended nor irregular unless they make a Trade of it and do that so publickly and notoriously as they can scarce do by their description hereof if they had a mind to it Mere mental Heresie a greater crime than Sodomy with them Yea petty Thievery a more hainous sin with some of them expresly and in consequence with most Sodomy hath ecclesiastical immunity All sorts of Religious places amongst them are Sanctuaries for Sodomites all sorts of uncleanness having such free and favourable entertainment in their Church no wonder if it be the sink of the Christian World Sect. 8. to page 360. 'T is no sin to take from Protestants or any counted Hereticks all they have All their Estates are confiscated immediately before any Declarative sentence from the first day of their pretended Heresie Though the Papists make not seisure presently yet those Hereticks are in the interim responsable for the mean profits And they cannot any way alienate or dispose of their Estates All Wills Sales Contracts for this purpose are null and void All may be taken from the purchaser without restoring the price he paid Children though R. Catholicks loose their portions Liberty given to all to spoil and bereave them All rules of righteousness which concern propriety are void here Papists owe them no observance 'T is no sin to burn their houses To deprive a Protestant Prince of his Throne To draw his Subjects into War against him To betray Garrisons to the Romanists To pay us no debts To detain what is deposited with them in trust There can be no lawful Parliament among Protestants No King No Peers No free-holders No laws that are valid can be enacted No Aids or Subsidies can be granted The fundamentals of the government in England and other such like Countreys quite blown up by their principles Sect. 9. to page 365. 'T is no sin with them to bear false witness against Protestants when their life or estate is concerned Or to use fraud and deceit in bargains to cheat them of all they have Or perfidiousness in promises compacts c. They leave little that can be sin in Papists towards themselves less towards Protestants Sect. 10. 11. to page 367. An aversation and contrariety to God and holiness a propensness and inclination to all ungodliness and unrighteousness in the horriddest instances when it is habitual raigning impetuous active is no sin at all in the temper and habit no nor in the acts and motions without consent Sect. 12. ibid. What expedients they have to justifie all sin in the World or make it no sin The Popes power herein If he command vice their Church is is bound to practise it He can make sin to be no sin He may dispense in all positive laws and in the divine law and against the Gospel at least where God can dispense particularly with Oaths and Vows such as are best and most inviolable With the observance of the Lords day so as to turn it into a working day With all publick worship amongst them both Mass and Divine service And against the universal state of the Church He can discharge them from righteousness towards men Take from any man his right Dissolve marriages Legitimate Adultery License persons to be married for a while and not during life Authorize incest dispensing with marriage betwixt any but Parents and Children and Sodomy He can dispense with any Divine law when the reason thereof ceaseth and can declare it to cease when he pleaseth If he should err in dispensing yet he that makes use of his licence to sin sins not He can free any from the obligation to fruits meet for Repentance Thus can he discharge all from acts of Religion Righteousness and good works Sect. 13. to page 376. He is excused from sin who ventures on it upon some probable reason though it seem but probable to him out of affection to the person that offers it and there be more reason against it Sect. 14. to page 377. Custome will excuse from sin and make it no sin Diverse instances The sense of Scripture must be conformed to the custome of their Church and vary from what it was as they change fashions Sect. 15. to page 380. He sins not who does what is sinful following the judgment of a grave Doctor One such Doctor may suffice as multitudes of their Divines conclude And will secure him in following his opinion though both less safe and less probable This granted

understood to be common and to belong to those Catholicks who can get them Hist of Counc of Tr. lib. 5. p. 409. Prince to the meanest Subject has any Title to Lands Houses Money or any thing else which they possess or can justly call it their own All rules of Righteousness which concern property are voyd Papists owe them no observance In reference to us we are not capable of Injury upon this account whatever they do against us in respect of our Estates they wrong us not they sin not for we have no Title If they take from us any thing or all we have they steal not ought from us they rob us not because they take nothing from us that is our own If they burn our Houses over our heads and fire Towns and Citys as they have done and their famous (a) Institut Cathol Tit. 45. Sect. 13. Simanca says they may do they do us no injury they sin not on this account because the Houses and Goods consumed are none of ours If they deprive a Protestant Prince of his Throne and Dominions they sin not he is by their Law and doctrine but an Vsurper and had no just (b) Tenens regnum contra formam juris mentem papae dicitur tyrannus Mascon de imper Reg. pars 1. c. 2. Propter haeresin rex non solum regno privatur sed filij ejus a successione regni pelluntur Simanc ibid. tit 9. Sect. 259. Post latam sententiam declarativam de crimine haeresis injuste princeps possidet regnum principatum excercet jurisdictionem in subditos tenenturque subditi eximere se ab ejus obedientia bellum gerere contra illum si vir●s illis suppe●ant Bannes in 22. q. 10 p. 614. Yea Bannes says it is the more common opinion with Aquinus and his followers that before the sentence declaratory Subjects may lawfully if they have strength exempt themselves from the power of the Prince p. 590. title to his Crown If they draw any of his Subjects into war against him at home or abroad they do him no wrong for they are (c) Vassalli haereticorum ipso facto liberantur Angel Sum. v. haeret Sylvest ibid. n. 14. principibus apostantibus a fide non est obediendum Aquinas 2. 2. q. 10. Concil Lateran cap. 3. not his Subjects no more than the Popish Clergy who are sworn to another Soveraign Or if he intrust them with the commands of Forts (d) Absoluti sunt subditi a debito fidelitatis etiam custodes arcium Simanca ibid. tit 46. Sect. 73. Concil Lateran ibid. or Garisons they may betray them to the Romanists and not wrong him because they were not his If they take all (e) Angelus Sum. v. haeret n. 8. Sylvest ibid. n. 14. Concil Lateran infra places of trust or profit from Nobles or Commons they do them no wrong because they had no right to them nor have their Children after them any for some generations If they pay no (f) Si quis promisisset eis solvere certo die sub juramento vel paena non tenetur ut ibi notat gloss Sylv. ibid. Angel ibid. n. 15. Armilla v. haeret n. 11. Ovandus infra Debts to Protestants though they were not only under the obligation of a promise but of solemn Oath they may justifie it they owe them nothing If Trust be reposed in them or any thing be (g) Simanca ibid. tit 45. Sect. 27. deposited in their hands or they borrow any thing of us they may detain it they need not restore it for they have nothing of ours In a word there can be no Parliaments or Convention of the three Estates of a Nation because there are none in that capacity As there are no persons of Honour for Peers all being (b) Ipso jure sunt infames ut neque ad publica offi●ia sen consilia seu ad eligendos ad hujusmodi aliquos neque ad testimonium admittuntur Sunt intestabiles etiam nec ad successiones admittuntur Angel Sum. n. 21. ibid. For this there is a decree of one of their general Councils that of Lateran under Innocent 3 involving not only Hereticks themselves but expresly all the receivers defenders and favourers of such Ex tunc ipso jure sit factu● infamis nec ad publica officia seu consilia nec ad eligendos aliquos ad hujusmodi nec ad testimonium admittitur sit etiam intestabilis c. cap. 3. in Crab. Tom. 2. p. 948. infamous so can there be no Free-holders to choose or to be chosen for Commons since there are no Proprietors And as no Laws can be made can be valid there being none who have any power to make them so there can be no Aids or Subsidies granted or required since they cannot be given or required of those who have nothing of their own to give Thus by the Popish principles the foundations of the civil constitution in England and other Countrys in like circumstances are quite blown up as if they had been at the mercy of Faux And those who will follow their conduct must hold that we have no Government no King no Subjects no Parliaments no Laws no Libertys no Property and indeed none of the rest because not this last And all that will be true to the Doctrine and Laws of Popery must believe this and may lawfully deal with us accordingly they sin not if they do there is no Conscience in the case to hinder them or secure us nay they are bound to do it if that which they account most sacred can oblige them and that as soon as they can That which restrains them is not the fear of God but of the penalties of our Laws which yet are of no more force by their determination than the agreement of a company of Robbers or the constitutions of mere Usurpers which will stand in their way no longer than till they can master the power which bears them up against that which the Roman Decrees and Edicts have made equity and justice in despite of the Laws of God and Nations Sect. 10. Moreover they may bear (i) Soto de just jur l. 5 q. 7. art 4. supra false witness either privately or in open Court for their advantage and if it do not much wrong another it is but a small fault so that if it do no wrong at all it will be less than a small fault On this account they may bear false witness against a Protestant or any other whom they count Hereticks even when Estate or Life is concerned for by their Laws and Doctrine his life is forfeited and his goods confiscated and so though by false testimony he lose both yet he has no wrong because he had no right to either They may use fraud and deceit in bargains to get what a Protestant sells for little or nothing yea or to cheat him of all he has for the deceit is not considerable