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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	adultery_n	commit_v	fornication_n	1,452	5	12.1572	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33363	The practical divinity of the papists discovered to be destructive of Christianity and mens souls	Clarkson, David, 1622-1686.	1676 (1676)	Wing C4575; ESTC R12489	482,472	463

ejus lex vindicet cum eadem turpitudo in nostra hoc est Dei civitate neque minus permittatur neque magis puniatur Fspencaeus de contin l. 3. c. 4. Ratio vero quam praedictus Segobiensis Soto secutus aliquot alios sentit viz. quod lex permittit facit justam operam meretricis non tamen alias praedictorum operas c. Navar. c. 17. n. 35. that there the use of Whoredom was a lawful practice Hereby the People under Popery are so well edified that they cannot easily know whether Fornication committed with common prostitutes be a sin as one of their (n) Fill. tr 30. c. 2. n. 51. p. 203. Doctors tells us for many of the common people says he who know not how to distinguish betwixt sin permitted or not forbidden as to the punishment and not as to the sinfulness because that simple Fornication is not punished and Whores have the priviledge of impunity they make account it is no sin to deal with them at the Popes rate and this is very common in Cities otherwise well instructed in the Faith and Religion of Rome as those who hear Confessions well know (*) It is not the common people only that have this good opinion of it Nec hodie Aristippei quidam desint qui simplex hoc stuprum pro crimine non habeant Espenc de contin lib. 3. cap. 4. Utinam non essent in orbe atque nomine Christiano qui libellis publice editis quasi quibusdam fornicandi Isagogis mulieres quidem omnes nihil aliud in vita communi esse putarent quam rem explendae libidini natam Idem ibid. It seems Confessors have something to do to perswade the People that that is a sin which the Pope publickly allows and they mig●d have more to do if the People did not suspect that the Pope is a man like themselves and for all his infallibility may in matter of VVhoredom err as they usually do But if any man be not disposed to take this liberty so freely offered of haunting the common Stews he has incouragement by the Law of their Church to have a Concubine at home and that without any great hazard it will not cost him so much as the loss of the Communion for the Canon Law provides (o) Decret dist 34. c. 4. Is qui non habet uxorem pro uxore concubinam habet a communione non repellatur Rabanus l. paenit c. 10. alledges a Spanish Canon for this And Gratian. dist 34. and Espencaeus de contin l. 2. c. 7. Jacobus Curio l. 2. Chron. says of Gregory 7. Quasi caelibatum perpetuum concubinatus temperamento mitigarit sacerdotem unius concubinae societate contentum ab officio non repellendum statuens Vid. ibid. That he who has not a Wife but instead of a Wife a Concubine shall not be kept from the Communion So that he be satisfied with one Woman either a Wife or a Concubine Now since they tell us sometimes that none who are in mortal sin may partake of the Communion it should seem that with them to live in Fornication is either no sin or none that is mortal Their Doctrine is as indulgent to those who will not put away their Concubines as such persons need desire Absolution is not to be denied him who having lent his Concubine whom he keeps in his house 100 Crowns has no hope to recover it if he put her away Or on the contrary if the Woman be not like to recover the like sum owing her if she leave the house of the Whoremaster For as was said before none are bound to avoid the next occasion of sin to their great loss (*) Jo. Sancius disp 10. n. 20. Nor is he bound to put away his Concubine if she be very useful for the gaining of temporal goods by way of Traffick It is enough that he intends not to sin hereafter Yea if the Concubine be very serviceable for the delight of the Whore-master so that his life would scarce be pleasant without her and other Cates would be very distastful to him and another Woman so much for his purpose would hardly be found the Whore-master will not be obliged to put her away (*) Ibid. Neither is absolution to be denied if he might lose his Reputation by quitting his Whore Yea or if the Concubine would be disgraced thereby It is enough if he firmly promise not to sin more with her since it is in his power not to sin although there be present danger of it while she stays in his house (*) n. 21. But what if he sin with her still after such promises to the contrary That will not hinder if he repent still and he may truly repent in their way and be absolved when there is no appearance of amendment So he determines in a like case after others (*) Absolvendum fore toties quoties vere paenituerit non solum quando aliqua emendatio notatur ut tenent Suar. Graff Navar. Coriolan Lopez quod possit absolvi paenitens etiamsi nullus appareat profectus tenet Vivaldus ibid. n. 16. Accordingly Bonacina determines a Confessor may absolve one who keeps a VVhore and will not put her away if he cannot do it without much disgrace or scandal or other great inconvenience (*) De Matrim disp 4. punct 14. n. 11. And him also who sins but seldom with his Whore 3 or 4 times in a year or thereabouts and hopes he may not relapse further (*) Ibid. n. 12. juxta Graffium alios And so may a youth be absolved who keeps a VVhore in his Fathers house with whom he sins customarily though he put her not away so that he have a firm purpose to desist (*) Ibid. n. 13. ita Graffius Lopez alij But what if after such a purpose he relapse still he may be absolved still as we heard before even innumerably innumerable times because so oft we are to forgive our Brother (*) Jo. Sanc. ibid. n. 16. Or if a Concubine at home will not satisfie an unclean person but he commit Fornication with others yet if he make but himself drunk before that Fornication will be no sin or but an inconsiderable fault if he be but half drunk Nor will Adultery be a sin in that or many other cases Christ teaches that he who puts away his Wife saving for the cause of Fornication causeth her to commit Adultery Matth. 5. 32. Yet they teach that where the marriage is both firm and consummated by conjugal injoyment yet the parties may be separated as to cohabitation and as much divorced as they can be for Adultery by their Doctrine (p) Vid. Sylvest Sum. v. divort n. 10. n. 2. Quantum ad vinculum matrimonium ratum salvi potest per mortem civilem i. e. professionem tacitam vel expressam religionis approbatae ita quod remanens in saeculo potest libere