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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36877	The monk's hood pull'd off, or, The Capvcin fryar described in two parts / translated out of French.; Capucin. English	Du Moulin, Pierre, 1568-1658.; Basile, de Rouen, d. 1648?	1671 (1671)	Wing D2592; ESTC R17147	60,217	212

Prebends alledging that it is an abominable thing that those hands which create God should be obliged to so much ignominy as to do homage to those hands which night and day are defiled with filthy and dishonest touches Wherefore you must not wonder if a Monk that is admitted into the Order make a vow to the Superiour who is a Priest and gives him that honour which belongs to the worship of Latria seeing the Priests are called Gods and Creators of their Creator and that they have a power over Jesus Christ To these testimonies of the Doctors of the Romish Church who say that a vow belongs to the worship of Latria and ought to be made to God only we must add the testimony of that Jesuit Cardinal Tolet. in Book 4. Of the institution of Priests Chapter 17. A vow is a promise made to God by a deliberate purpose and will By these things it appears that a vow made to Saints or to a Superiour of a Convent is pure Idolatry for thereby that honour which is due to God only is communicated to the creature Our adversaries cannot escape by saying that in vowing to Saints they vow mediatley to God for the worship of Latria ought not to be given to the creature either mediately or immediately In all worship of Latria we must address our selves to God directly The Monk that makes this vow addresseth himself to God directly by saying I vow to Almighty God c. Having thus addressed himself to God directly what need is there that he should afterwards address himself to him mediately and by oblique ways It is certain that he who says to his Superior or Guardian I vow to you my Father speaks not to God and by these words vows not to God Consider the words of this vow and you shall find that a Monk who is admitted into the order speaks to God to the Saints and to his Superior in the same terms and vows no two different manners But when Bellarmine confesseth that the custom of making Vows to Saints was not begun when the holy Scriptures were written he should have mentioned the time when it began and not have cheated the Reader with false allegations as his usual manner is For he alledgeth these words of Eusebius in his 13. book of Evangelical preparation Chap. 7. Honouring the souldiers of true Piety as the friends of God we come to their Monuments and make Vows to them Which passage is false and altogether forged He also alledgeth Theodoret in his 8. Book against the Greeks which book is falsly attributed to Theodoret. In one point Bellarmine besides his error discovers his ignorance in the Greek tongue in not knowing that the Greeks have no proper word to express the Word Vow And the Latine Interpreter to whom Bellarmine trusts hath falsly translated Votorum rei dona persolvunt Which words are not in the Greek Text of the book attributed to Theodoret. It is in honour of the Pope that the Monks vow to St. Peter and St. Paul and not to St. John and St. James for they make the two former the Founders of the Church of Rome The things to which this Monk obligeth himself are poverty chastity and obedience Of poverty I shall speak hereafter As for chastity the Jesuit Emanuel Sa in his Aphorisms upon the word votum saith tha the vow of Priesthood is not a vow of chastity and that the Bishop can dispence with it Whereupon we demand whether a Monk or a Priest that commits fornication doth not violate the vow of Chastity and whether by this Vow he doth not oblige him-himself not to commit fornication If he doth not oblige himself to it he shews that he will not be obliged by vow to obey the command of God which saith Thou shalt not commit Aclultery But by this vow he only obligeth himself to abstain from a thing which God permits and not from that which he forbids But if this Monk by vowing chastity doth vow not to commit fornication it is evident that by committing fornication he violates his vow and and besides he transgresseth the command of God which obligeth us much more than any voluntary vow So that he commits two evils viz. He breaks his vow and violates the Law of God Why then when a Monk or Priest marries for fear of violating the Law of God by committing fornication is he accounted to have committed a greater sin than when he commits fornication Why then is not a Priest that commits fornication made irregular and incapable of the Priest-hood but if he marries is presently degraded yea and declared punishable with death To this they answer that it is because he hath broken his vow and yet he remains unpunished and ceaseth not to sing Mass for all that For the commands of God do not bind so strongly as voluntary vows do which are made without yea contrary to the word of God which saith If they cannot contain let them Marry And to avoid Fornication let every man have his own wife and let every woman have her own husband 1 Cor. 7. But that a Priest who commits Fornication yea hath divers Concubines is not thereby rendred irregular and incapable of the Priesthood not only experience shews examples of this being numberless but we have also the determination of Pope Innocent III. Thereupon in the first Book of the Decretals in the twelfth Title in the Chapter Quia circa His words are these Thou desirest to be instructed by the Apostolick See Whether Priests that have divers Concubines ought to be counted bigamous To which we think fit to answer that seeing they have not incurr'd the irregularity of bigamy thou mayest dispence with their exceeding of the Priestly Office they being stained only with simple fornication But for marrying of one wife according to the Apostles Rule a Priest is degraded yea punished with death But which is much more one that is a notorious Sodomite is not made irregular but may sing Mass for all that as Navarre the most knowing of all the Canonists and the Popes Penitentiary teacheth A man saith he doth not incur irregularity but for the cases specified in the Law of which number Sodomy is none And this he proves by the Authority of Pope Innocent And he adds that in Italy which is more troubled with this evil than it should be they demand no dispensation for it In fine how binding soever the vow of not marrying may be yet the Pope can dispence with it and may permit a man to marry contrary to his vow Emanuel Sa in the same place saith that the Bishops may also dispence with this vow and permit a man to marry Methinks also to vow to Saint Peter never to marry is to preten'd to be wiser than he for he was a married man It is just as if one should say to him I do vow to thee not to follow thy example I do promise to be wiser and holier then thou It is