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A61684	Pagano-papismvs, or, An exact parallel between Rome-pagan, and Rome-Christian, in their doctrines and ceremonies by Joshua Stopford ...	Stopford, Joshua, 1636-1675.	1675 (1675)	Wing S5744; ESTC R20561	127,566	354

Scurris venerabilis ara Cinaedis Servit honorandae divum Ganymedibus aedes De Calamit Tempor lib. 3. In the last Visitation in Bavaria such frequent Whoredoms were discovered that scarce three or four were found among One hundred Priests which did not either publickly keep Concubines or privately contract Matrimony said the Orator of Albertus Duke of Bavaria in the Council of Trent Chamier de Caelibat Sacerdot lib. 16. cap. 4. Nay their Popes have not been free witness their Platina Onuphrius c. Take two Epitaphs Sixte jaces tandem deflent tua busta Cynaedi Scortaque lenones alea vina venus Again Hoc jacet in tumulo Lucretia nomine sed re Thais Alexandri filia sponsa nurus The filthiness of the Romish Clergy is so notorious that I forbear to add other Testimonies out of Alvarus Pelagius de Planctu Ecclesiae Nicolaus Clemangis de Corrupto Ecclesiae Statu and many other eminent Authors Hence 't is that not a few of their great Doctors have wished that this Ecclesiastical Constitution might be abrogated and Priests permitted to marry Far be it that this forced should overcome that conjugal chastity and the crime of no fault bring a greater disgrace to the Order What hath brought more evil to Religion more grief to good men than the filthiness of Priests Let the right of publick Matrimony be restor'd to Priests that they may rather live holily than defile themselves with sins against nature Polydor Virgil de Inventor Rerum lib. 5. cap. 4. About the time of the Council of Basil the Emperor Sigismund drew up certain Articles of Reformation in which among many things this is remarkable More evil than good hath come to the Church from the Decree of Calixtus 't is better and more safe for the Soul that liberty be granted unto Clerks to marry according to the custom of the Oriental Church Gerhardus de Minister Ecclesiast And Pope Pius 2. hath left this saying With great reason Marriage was taken from Priests but there 's greater reason why it should be restored Platina in ejus vita Which words are left out out in their later Editions CHAP. XVI Shaven Crowns and Beards THE Pagan Priests shaved the crown of their heads and beards We read Lev. 21. 5 They shall not make baldness upon their head Not a round bare place saith Vatablus Ye shall not make roundness of the hair of your head say the Septuag Radulphus affirms That the Gentile Priests shaved their heads round for they thought that the gods were best pleased with a round figure as the most perfect Cornel. a Lapid Bonfrerius in Synops Criticor Which was the ground of this Prohibition say Divines both Popish and Protestant Again Ezek. 44. 20 Neither shall they shave their heads That they might not appear like the Gentile Priests saith Bellarmine Out of a superstitious imitation of the Heathen who sacrificed to their Idols with shaven heads saith Estius Apuleius describing the Processions of the Gentiles saith These their Priests march forward with their shaven heads c. Metamorph. lib. 11. The Egyptian Priests as Alexander ab Alexandro informs us were by law to shave their heads every third day and with brazen Knives which custom saith he they received from the Sabines whose Priests were shaven with such Instruments In Gen. Dierum lib. 6. cap. 12. Of these Juvenal speaks Sat. 6. Qui grege linigero circumdatus grege calvo And Martial Lib. 12. Epigram 29. Linigeri fugiunt calvi sistrataque turba And Vossius gives us the reason of this Custom Because of all Mortals none should have such purity of Soul of which that of the Body is a Symbol as Priests they ought not to be burden'd with sordid cares which are signified by the hair Besides long hair hurts the head and the hair both of Men and Beasts groweth out of the excrements of food not as if they should stay here but because by this Symbol they might be admonished to study purity De Physiologia Christ. c. lib. 9. cap. 12. And this reason is urged by Plutarch in his Treatise of Isis and Osiris Thus do our Romish Priests shave their heads and beards For this we have the universal Testimony of their greatest Doctors and Schoolmen Bellarm. de Monachis lib. 2. cap. 40. where he urgeth several reasons and the Authority of many Councils Peter Lombard Sentent Lib. 4. Distinct. 24. Estius in Sentent Lib. 4. Distinct. 24. Sect. 7. Durand Ration Divin Officior Lib. 2. cap. 1. And their Polydor Virgil derives this Ceremony from Pagans de Inventor Rerum Lib. 4. cap. 8. Three things saith Durand are here observable viz. the shaving of the Head cropping the hair and the circular Form 1. Three things follow upon the shaving of the Head viz. the conservation of cleanliness deformation and denudation 1. The conservation of cleanliness because from the hair filthiness is contracted in the head 2. Deformation because hair is for an ornament And therefore this shaving signifieth an undefiled and singular life that Clergy-men should have purity of soul within and a singular life that is no exquisite habit without Further the shaving and cutting of the hair denotes the deposition of all temporal things and that they should be content with food and raiment 3. The baring of the upper part of the head shews that there should be nothing betwixt us and God that with open face we may contemplate the Divine Glory Again we shave the head some hair being left below in the form of a Crown because the head signifieth the mind and the hair secular thoughts Therefore as the top of the head is cleansed from hair so the mind whilst it meditateth on heavenly things ought to be cleansed from worldly thoughts But the lower part of the head hath hair because 't is sometimes lawful to think of worldly things without which we cannot live 2. The cropping of the hair denotes That no superfluous thoughts should possess the mind They go with shaven heads and naked ears lest their hair by growing long cover their ears and hinder their sight to signifie that no worldly thoughts should stop the ears or eyes of the Soul And the hair is cut above the ears that the five senses of the head may be ready for the service of God 3. The hair is shaven in a circular form or like a crown for several reasons 1. In imitation of Christ our King who being about to offer up himself upon the Altar of the Cross did wear a Crown of thorns Hence 't is that we desiring to be saved by his Death do wear upon our heads the Sign of Christs passion that is the form of a thorny Crown which he wore in his Sufferings that he might take away the thorns of our sins and to shew that we are ready to suffer derisions and reproaches for him as he was for us 2. The circular form of the hair denotes the vertue of equality every