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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31050	The monk unvail'd: or, A facetious dialogue, discovering the several intrigues, and subtil practises, together with the lewd and scandalous lives of monks, fryers, and other pretended religious votaries of the Church of Rome. Written by an eminent Papist in French. Faithfully translated by C.V. Gent.	Barrin, Jean, ca. 1640-1718.; C. V.	1678 (1678)	Wing B920A; ESTC R213529	50,045	154

home their circuits pretences and the feignings whereof those Foxes make use to introduce themselves into Houses to catch and delude people I say whosoever would put in writing the Cheats stratagems and sherking tricks which these Apes these furred Cats cover with a Religious habit more Volums might be made of them than all the Book-sellers of Paris are Masters of Flor. Hyperboles you are in wrath you would do them a mischief Patr. I say whosoever would bring to light their Intrigues Commerce Visits Infamous Practises loose Entertainments Love-letters their speaking with a double meaning the baits they lay to Womens Chastity and to Religious Maids the same would imploy for ten years all the Printing-Houses of Europe Evil befal those who hearken to them or believe them and to those who having young Wives or Daughters receive them within their Houses under any pretension whatsoever Flor. What a flood of passion how you handle them poor Monks you may say of them what you please but for all that they do very much edifie the people were it but by their outward appearance as their modest Habit Austerities Vows Retirements nay their very Convents and their Wards do inspire Devotion into us at entrance whereof you behold Crosses Images devices of Charity Humility Mortification Austerity Self-denial and of Penitence Patr. Yea at entrance of their Convents and Wards may be seen what the Prophet Ezekiel saw at one of the doors of the Temple of Jerusalem Idolum zeli in ipso introitu the figure and appearance of Zeal at entrance but have you taken notice of that which the very same Prophet says in the same place Fili fode parietem videbis abominationes pessimas quas isti faciunt The walls of their Wards are to be bored through to behold what is acted within and there will only appear hatreds parties leagues quarrels briberies disorders debaucheries jollity and drunkenness Flor. Ha ha Patr. There may be beheld Epicurism and Impiety under the veil of Devotion vanity pride and ambition under the cloak of Humility riches and abundance under the coat of Poverty daintiness gluttony and sensuality under the habit of Mortification and Penitence Within may be found Vagabonds cloystered up solitary persons keeping Company Bald-pated men Gallants dirty fellows Courtiers poor men delicious beggars rich and voluptuous Satyrs turned Minions fair-spoken regular persons may be seen without rule and Religious persons without Religion Flor. Your Antithesis causes me to laugh Patr. People will be surprised to see persons professing sacred Vows devoted to all manner of Wickednesses Monks assiduously running about the Streets men who have seemingly quitted the world to be continually a-visiting Thrusting themselves into Houses and rendring themselves Mediators Sollicitors Match-makers Contrivers of Wills Gifts Legacies Foundations Burials Annuities informing themselves of all things medling and intermedling every-where Flor. Nothing makes me so much against them as that Patr. In fine you will take it for a scandalous thing to see under a Hood and a penitential bag persons more dissolute more insolent and more lost than Ruffians and rude Soldiers Flor. In case you had Thunder at your command you would reduce to ashes both Monks and Frieries In truth you surprise me I had never believed the like of persons who pretend themselves to be the very Cream of Religion Pat. They Cream whip such Cream Flor. Notwithstanding there is one thing amongst them which serves for good example and that is to see their Churches so well set-out and that two or three times a Month full Indulgences are to be had there that frequent Preaching may be heard there and the holy Sacrament often exposed and that there is Musick and Blessing Patr. Alas poor man how will you be able to discern the motives and intentions of those Impostors They know the inclinations of the Vulgar who are taken with exterior things and appearances and run after sights being led by their senses lovers of State-Novelties Solemnities Beautifyings Adornings of Gilt-things Pictures Harmony who as Geese follow one anther delight to pray amongst a multitude in a croud and in company Flor. 'T is against what the Son of God teaches us who saith When thou hast a mind to pray enter into thy Closet and the door being shut pray to thy Father in secret and he who sees thee in secret will reward thee openly Patr. You say right these seducers then making use of the weakness of the People do entice them by such things as they know are relishing and draw them by seeming devotion and holiness allure them by Indulgences by Chappels garnished and set out with Images where Vows are rendred to Thighs Legs Feet Armes Hands Hearts Eyes Ears Heads and Brests of Wax They call and recall these good Idiots by the jingling of Bells stay them by Vespers and Musick by the exposing and blessing of the holy Sacrament Flor. Are not those holy things Patr. Truly such are holy things as the beautifying of Churches and Chappels Indulgences Sermons Vespers Exposing and Blessing of the holy Sacrament Neither do I blame that 't is the intention and the end for which the same is done Flor. 'T is to incite People to Devotion P. And to put Money in the Bason F. How Money in the Bason P. Did you never take notice that on solemn days which are very frequent with them when there are Indulgences Sermons Musick Exposing and Blessing the holy Sacrament that there is also at the Entrance of their Churches a great Bason on the Table covered with a Carpet in which Bason People put Money F. It is true P. And it is for the causing of this Bason to ring that the Bells are rung it is this Bason that causes the writing to be stuck up at the door for Indulgences it is for this Bason sake that the Altars are adorned that there is Preaching that the holy Sacrament is exposed and the Blessing is given it is at the sound of this Bason that the intentions of those Brothers is a great deal better known than by that of the Bells it is to make them Masters of the Peoples Money that they set out their Altars it is to suborn weak spirits that they adorn their Churches it is to bring gain to themselves that they invite the People to get Indulgences in such wise that though their pretension is the honour and glory of God self-interest is the true motive They would put upon their Altars for a Motto these words of the Mass Ad laudem gloriam nominis tui ad utilitatem quoque nostram to Gods praise but our own profit F. You are pleasant must not every one live by his own Trade P. Is it the Trade of Religious men to make Religion bend to their interests to make bates of holy things to get money to make of their Churches a Fair of St. Germains F. I should not so much mislike the beautifying of their Churches as those frequent and excessive Indulgences and