The apology of the Church of England, and an epistle to one Seignior Scipio…

4. BUT these things are not only usual, and even for the sake of the Custom approved (as most of their Vices are;) but they are now become so well known by their long use, that they are putid ripe for Judgment. For who has not heard what Petrus Aloisius, the Son of Paul the III. designed against Cosmus ⟨p. 52⟩Cherius, Bishop of Fano? What Jo. Casa Arch-Bishop of Benevento, the Popes Legate at Venice wrote of a Sin to be abhorred; whilst with a Jewd Eloquence and abominable Words, he commends what ought not to be named. Who knows not that Alphonsus Diazius a Spaniard, was sent from Rome into Germany of purpose to murder the most innocent and holy Man John Diazius his own Brother, only because he had embraced the Gospel, and would not return to Rome, which he accordingly did? But they may pretend perhaps that such things as these are, may sometimes happen in the best constituted Governments, and that there is excellent Laws against them.

4. BUT these things are not only usual, and even for the sake of the Custom approved (as most of their Vices are;) but they are now become so well known by their long use, that they are putid ripe for Iudgment. For who has not heard what Petrus Aloisius, the Son of Paul the III. designed against Cosmus ⟨p. 52⟩Cherius, Bishop of Fano? What Jo. Casa Arch-Bishop of Benevento, the Popes Legate at Venice wrote of a Sin to be abhorred; whilst with a Iewd Eloquence and abominable Words, he commends what ought not to be named. Who knows not that Alphonsus Diazius a Spaniard, was sent from Rome into Germany of purpose to murther the most innocent and holy Man John Diazius his own Brother, only because he had imbraced the Gospel, and would not return to Rome, which he accordingly did? But they may pretend perhaps that such things as these are, may sometimes happen in the best constituted Governments, and that there is excellent Laws against them.

5. Be it so, But what Law passed upon these Pests? Petrus Aloisius, when he had attempted the Villainy I have hinted at, was ever after in the Bosom of Paul the III. his Father, and his Joy. Diazius, after he had assassinated his Brother, was delivered ou of the hands of the Law, by the Interposition of the Pope. Johannes Casa, Arch-Bishop of Benevento, is yet alive, and at Rome, and live, under the Eyes, and in the Sight of his Holiness. They have stain infinite numbers of our Brethren, only because they truly and purely believed in Jesus Christ; but then of that infinite number of Harlots, Sodomites and Adulterers, who have they at any time, I will not say slain, but excommunicated, or so much as touched? What are Fornications Adulteries, Pimping, Sodomy, Parricides, Incests and the like, no sins at Rome? or if they be, why are they so easily born, as it