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

If he could swallow ten millions of their Venials, every minute at a gulp, they would not (by their divinity) endanger him, though one that will follow the rules of Christ, must choose death, rather than venture upon some one of them. There is with them no danger in thus sinning, though the Christian doctrine never discovered any thing else in sin. Or if their Catholics will be outrageously wicked, and cannot be satisfied with less than the practice of the most mortal crimes, they will not disoblige them (the party must be kept up, though their souls sink) they shall have their liberty upon easy terms; deadly sins shall be as free for them, and in a manner as safe as their harmless Venials. That which makes Venial faults seem less dangerous than mortal; is because they will not damn a man, though he never repent of them; but even herein they have made venial and mortal alike safe; for by their doctrine, he may he live in all sorts of deadly wickedness, & die therein without any act of true Repentance, and yet escape damnation. They commend to them several evasions to secure impenitent Sinners, how damnable soever their neglects or practices have been to the last. But that of the Trent Council must not be doubted of; attrition (which they confess alone to be no sufficient, no saving Repentance) with the Sacrament of confession will pass any Sinner into a saving state. This one device of their own, will serve instead of all that Christ hath prescribed; if this be observed, though they live and die in the neglect of all Christian virtues, and in the practice of all wickedness which Christ condemns; they need not fear, this alone will secure them. The lest natural, or slavish remorse, and a Priest, is all the Christianity that a Papist need trouble himself for: if he can but make sure of these at last gasp, he is safe, though all his life he be more like a Devil incarnate than a Christian. By this alone Christianity is utterly subverted, all the Laws of Christ in effect repealed, and their ⟨p. 412⟩observance rendered needless, the whole Gospel made a Cypher, and a way to salvation opened by bold Impostors, not only without, but against the Gospel, and quite cross to the Way, the Truth, and the Life.

If he could swallow ten millions of their Venials, every minute at a gulp, they would not (by their divinity) indanger him, though one that will follow the rules of Christ, must choose death, rather than venture upon some one of them. There is with them no danger in thus sinning, though the Christian doctrine never discovered any thing else in sin. Or if their Catholicks will be outragiously wicked, and cannot be satisfied with less than the practice of the most mortal crimes, they will not disoblige them (the party must be kept up, though their souls sink) they shall have their liberty upon easie terms; deadly sins shall be as free for them, and in a manner as safe as their harmless Venials. That which makes Venial faults seem less dangerous than mortal; is because they will not damne a man, though he never repent of them; but even herein they have made venial and mortal alike safe; for by their doctrine, he may he live in all sorts of deadly wickedness, & die therein without any act of true Repentance, and yet escape damnation. They commend to them several evasions to secure impenitent Sinners, how damnable soever their neglects or practices have been to the last. But that of the Trent Council must not be doubted of; attrition (which they confess alone to be no sufficient, no saving Repentance) with the Sacrament of confession will pass any Sinner into a saving state. This one device of their own, will serve instead of all that Christ hath prescribed; if this be observed, though they live and die in the neglect of all Christian vertues, and in the practice of all wickedness which Christ condemns; they need not fear, this alone will secure them. The lest natural, or slavish remorse, and a Priest, is all the Christianity that a Papist need trouble himself for: if he can but make sure of these at last gasp, he is safe, though all his life he be more like a Devil incarnate than a Christian. By this alone Christianity is utterly subverted, all the Laws of Christ in effect repealed, and their