have no pretext to follow that laxity, which is only
offered to them by the strange hands of these casuists, instead of the
sound
doctrine which is presented to them by the fatherly hands of their own
pastors. And the ungodly and heretics have no ground for publishing these
abuses as evidence of imperfection in the providence of God over His
Church;
since, the Church consisting properly in the body of the hierarchy, we are
so far from being able to conclude from the present state of matters that
God has abandoned her to corruption, that it has never been more apparent
than at the present time that God visibly protects her from corruption.
For if some of these men, who, by an extraordinary vocation, have made
profession of withdrawing from the world and adopting the monks' dress, in
order to live in a more perfect state than ordinary Christians, have
fallen
into excesses which horrify ordinary Christians, and have become to us
what
the false prophets were among the Jews; this is a private and personal
misfortune, which must indeed be deplored, but from which nothing can be
inferred against the care which God takes of His Church; since all these
things are so clearly foretold, and it has been so long since announced
that
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