A09453:470
A Reformed Catholic
A reformed Catholic: or, A declaration showing how near we may come to the present Church of Rome in sundry points of religion: and wherein we must for ever depart from them with an advertisement to all favourers of the Roman religion, showing that the said religion is against the Catholic principles and grounds of the catechism.A reformed Catholike: or, A declaration shewing how neere we may come to the present Church of Rome in sundrie points of religion: and vvherein we must for euer depart from them with an advertisment to all fauourers of the Romane religion, shewing that the said religion is against the Catholike principles and grounds of the catechisme.
Cambridge: printed by John Legat, 1598Cambridge: printed by Iohn Legat, 1598
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The third sin is the maintenance of adultery. And that is manifest: first of all, in the Toleration of the Stews flat against the commandment of God. Deut. 23. 17. There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel: neither shall there be a whore keeper of the sons of Israel. And this toleration is an occasion of uncleanness to many young men and women, that otherwise would abstain from all such kind of filthiness. And what an abomination is this, when brother and brother, father and son, nephew and uncle, shall come to one and the same harlot, one before or after the other. Secondly, their Law beyond the fourth degree allows the marriage of any persons:1 and by this means, they sometime allow incest. For in the unequal collateral line, the person next the common stock is a father or mother to the brothers or sisters posterity, ⟨p. 345⟩as for example.
The third sinne is the maintenance of adulterie. And that is manifest: first of all, in the Toleration of the Stewes flat against the cō mandement of God. Deut. 23. 17. There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel: neither shal there be a whore keeper of the sonnes of Israel. And this toleration is an occasion of vncleanes to many young men and women, that otherwise would abstaine from all such kinde of filthines. And what an abomination is this, when brother and brother, father and sonne, nephew and vncle, shall come to one and the same harlot, one before or after the other. Secondly, their Law beyōd the fourth degree allowes the marriage of any persons:1 and by this meanes, they sometime allow incest. For in the vnequall collaterall line, the person next the common stocke is a father or mother to the brothers or sisters posteritie, ⟨p. 345⟩as for example.
- 1Greg cap. 9 de cosang.