The practical divinity of the papists discovered to be destructive of Christianity and mens…

It's true, some others have been expunged, and I find above Forty Opinions of the late Casuists censured by Alexander the Seventh, and the Cardinals of their Sacred Congregation^(p): but hereby more authority is added to those I insist ⟨image 6⟩on; being thought good enough to pass, untouched: which must therefore be counted sound Doctrine and safe for Practice in the Judgment of their Virtual Church, and the chief parts of their Church Representative.

1. (p)Index Expurg. sub Alexand. VII. An. 1666.

There is no ground to expect that this Doctrine, as to the principal and most pernicious parts of it, will ever be condemned by any Popes or Councils of such Complexion and Principles as that of Trent, where it was a Maxim observed religiously, that no Determination should pass, which either in matter or form, would disoblige any considerable Party among them, much less all: the Roman interest is supported by such Politics, and must be secured whatever become of Souls or Saving Doctrine. There are indeed some Dissenters amongst them (as there are elsewhere) who complain of their Moral Divinity; but they are such, whose power and interest, can reach little further than Complaints; and these are so far from being the Voice or Sense of their Church, that their Writings which exhibit such Complaints, are condemned at Rome ^(q)by the Supreme Tribunal (as they call it) of the Inquisition.

There is no ground to expect that this Doctrine, as to the principal and most pernicious parts of it, will ever be condemned by any Popes or Councils of such Complexion and Principles as that of Trent, where it was a Maxime observed religiously, that no Determination should pass, which either in matter or form, would disoblige any considerable Party among them, much less all: the Roman interest is supported by such Politicks, and must be secured whatever become of Souls or Saving Doctrine. There are indeed some Dissenters amongst them (as there are elsewhere) who complain of their Moral Divinity; but they are such, whose power and interest, can reach little further than Complaints; and these are so far from being the Voice or Sense of their Church, that their Writings which exhibite such Complaints, are condemned at Rome