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

¹There were many in the time of the Council of Trent, when Jesuitism ⟨p. 97⟩was but in its Infancy, who held it enough to love God actually but once in a life time. One act of love ^(d)once in a life, which some count enough, saith Soto, and these some, he tells us afterwards, were very many.

¹There were many in the time of the Council of Trent, when Jesuitisme ⟨p. 97⟩was but in its Infancy, who held it enough to love God actually but once in a life time. One act of love ^(d)once in a life, which some count enough, saith Soto, and these some, he tells us afterwards, were very many.

1. 1(c) Tr. 6. n. 208.
2. (d)Semel in vita, quod quidam satis arbitrantur. de nat. &. grat. l. 1. c. 22. p. 58.

In the time of Francis de Victoria, who lived till the Council of Trent had sate a year, this was the common doctrine, that a man is but obliged to love God once in his life. For upon the question, when the Precept for love obligeth? he says, Nec videtur sufficiens solutio communis, quod tenetur semel in vita Relect. part. 3. n. 11. The common answer, that one is bound to it once in a life, seems not sufficient; he speaks modestly, as one loth to dissent from the common doctrine. (that Council (who if it had been concerned for God and mens souls, as it was for other things, would have appeared in all its thunder against such an error) mends this, as it did other matters, by establishing a doctrine which makes it needless to love God so much as once in a life: of which hereafter.)