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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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6. O Holy Scribes and Pharisees, to whom this Sanctity was never known! O Sanctity and Catholic Faith! St. Peter did never teach these things at Rome, nor St. Paul live there at this rate. They did not publicly exercise the Trade of Pimping, they took no Tribute of the Whores; they did not openly and freely tolerate Adulterers and Parricides; they did not admit them into their Bosoms, their Families, their Councils, nor into the Congregations of Christian Men. These Men ought not to have aggravated so much the Faults of our Lives; it had been much better to have approved their own to the World, or at least, to have concealed them a little more from the Eyes of Men.
6. O Holy Scribes and Pharisees, to whom this Sanctity was never known! O Sanctity and Catholick Faith! St. Peter did never teach these things at Rome, nor St. Paul live there at this rate. They did not publickly exercise the Trade of Pimping, they took no Tribute of the Whores; they did not openly and freely tolerate Adulterers and Parricides; they did not admit them into their Bosoms, their Families, their Councils, nor into the Congregations of Christian Men. These Men ought not to have aggravated so much the Faults of our Lives; it had been much better to have approved their own to the World, or at least, to have concealed them a little more from the Eyes of Men.
7. FOR as for us, we retain and use our ancient Paternal Laws; and administer Church Discipline seriously and diligently as far as we possibly can, in so much Corruption of all things, both as to Manners and Times; we have no Stews nor Herds of Harlots and Concubines; nor do we prefer Adulteries before Marriage, nor do we exercise Pimping, nor raise Money from Whorehouses; neither do we suffer Incests and flagitious Lusts; our Aloise's, or our Casa's, or our Parricidical murdering Diasio's do not go unpunished; for if these things had pleased us, there had been no occasion of separating from the Society of those Men, where these (rare) things flourish and are in great ⟨p. 54⟩esteem, and so we had also escaped the Hatred of Men, and the apparent Dangers we have run into by our Departure from them. It is not many months since Paul the IV. had some Monks of the Augustine Order in Prison at Rome,