This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 edition. Excerpt: ...Premising that "Continence is not, in secular clerks, essential to Order, nor of Divine right," he proceeds to say, " I not only believe the power of enacting this is inherent in the Church, but that its enactment would be for the saving of souls. For, as experience teaches us, the downright contrary ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 edition. Excerpt: ...Premising that "Continence is not, in secular clerks, essential to Order, nor of Divine right," he proceeds to say, " I not only believe the power of enacting this is inherent in the Church, but that its enactment would be for the saving of souls. For, as experience teaches us, the downright contrary effect follows from the law of continence; since at this day clerks are 1 Decret. Greg. III. Tit. III. c 6. 2 Canon 3. 3 Council of Angers, A.D. 453. "Quia instigante diabolo et in illis seelus perpetratum reperitur, aut etiam in pedissequis earumdem." (Decret. Greg. III. Tit. II. c. 1.) 'Canon 10. 5 Zabarella sup. Clementin. f. 40. 8 "Communiter delinquunt clerici incontinentia, quae contra naturam est, laborantes." (Hostiensis, Sumnia Aurea, V. De excessibus praelatorum, col. 1337.) stained by unlawful connexion to their grievous sin; whereas with a man's own wife there might be chastity. Whence the Church ought to do as a good physician; and, if a medicine upon trial doth more hurt than profit, remove it." 1 5. He moreover puts the case of a married man's being elected Pope, and says: "Either his wife shall be Case of a induced to continence; or, if she be unwilling married to contain, let him render the conjugal debt, 1ope' yet nevertheless abide in the Papacy, because it is not repugnant to the essence of the Papacy or clerical state. For Peter too had a wife, when he was promoted to be Pope. Whence we see that Greek priests contract matrimony without sin."2 Elsewhere he states that such a married Pope's election would not thereby be vitiated; but does not say that he could perform his Papal functions.3 This view is supported by Gratian, who puts the case of a Deacon wishing to...
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