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

Votaries incur 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 chaste, 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 publicly and notoriously, as they can scarce do (by their description hereof), if they had a mind to it. Mere mental Heresy a greater crime than Sodomy with them. Yea petty Thievery a more heinous sin, with some of them expressly, 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.

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.