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The apology of the Church of England, and an epistle to one Seignior Scipio…
The apology of the Church of England, and an epistle to one Seignior Scipio a Venetian gentleman, concerning the Council of Trent written both in Latin / by ... John Jewel ... ; made English by a person of quality ; to which is added, The life of the said bishop ; collected and written by the same hand.
London: printed by T. H. for Richard Chiswell, 1685
THE APOLOGY OF THE Church of ENGLAND. Written by the very Learned a… › Chapter 4
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BUT whilst these men so bitterly reflect upon us, Why do they not sometimes think what they themselves are? Are they who have so much leisure to attend what is done at a distance in Germany and England, so forgetful or so blind, that they cannot see what is done at Rome? Are we to be impeached ⟨p. 50⟩by them whose Lives are so dissolute, as no honest modest man can without blushing tell their Story?
BUT whilst these men so bitterly reflect upon us, Why do they not sometimes think what they themselves are? Are they who have so much leisure to attend what is done at a distance in Germany and England, so forgetful or so blind, that they cannot see what is done at Rome? Are we to be impeach'd ⟨p. 50⟩by them whose Lives are so dissolute, as no honest modest man can without blushing tell their Story?
2. WE do not now intend to bring to light all those Villainies which may much better be buried with them; it becomes neither our Religion nor our Modesty and Shamefacedness: and yet he that will needs be called the Vicar of Jesus Christ, and the Head of the Church, may easily consider with himself what those things are, which he hears, and sees, and suffers to be done at Rome; for we will go no further in giving an account what they are: Let him make use of his own Memory. Let him be pleased to consider that they are his own Canonists who have taught the People, that simple Fornication is no Sin; as if they had learned from the heathen Comedian, this Doctrine, that it is not a sin for a young Man to Whore. Let him consider they are his own again,1 who have determined, that a Priest is not to be deposed for Fornication. Let him remember that Cardinal Campejus, Albertus Pighius, and many others o• his Lawyers, have taught, that the Priest wh• keeps a Concubine, lives much more chastely and holily than he who has a lawful Wife. I hope he hath not forgotten that there is at Rom many thousands of public licensed Whores and that he levies upon them yearly, by way of Tax, thirty thousand Ducats. He can not forget surely that himself is a public Pimp, and from this base Profit, doth as dishonourably and wickedly increase his Revenues and Pleasures. Were all things well and Holy at Rome, when Pope Joan, a Woman of a