uld know) have these great mischiefs
been punished amongst them? Petrus Aloisius, after he had done that
notorious act that I spake of, was always cherished in his father's
bosom, Pope Paul the Third, and made his very derling. Diasius, after he
had murdered his own brother, was delivered by the Pope's means, to the
end he might not be punished by good laws. John Casus, the Archbishop of
Beneventum, is yet alive, yea, and liveth at Rome, even in the eyes and
sight of the most holy father.

They have put to death infinite numbers of our brethren, only because
they believed truly and sincerely in Jesu Christ. But of that great and
foul number of harlots, fornicators, adulterers, what one have they at
any time (I say not killed, but) either excommunicated, or once attached?
Why! voluptuousness, adultery, ribaldry, whoredom, murdering of kin,
incest, and others more abominable parts, are not these counted sin at
Rome? Or, if they be sin, ought "Christ's vicar, Peter's successor, the
most holy father," so lightly and slightly to bear them, as though they
were no sin, and that in the city of Rome, and in that principal tower of
all holiness?

O holy Scribes and Pharisees, which knew not this kind of holiness! what
a Catholic faith is this! Peter did not thus teach at Rome: Paul did not
so live at Rome: they did not practise brothelry, which these do openly:
they made not a yearly revenue and profit of harlots: they suffered no
common adulterers and wicked murderers to go unpunished. They did not
receive them into their entire familiarity, into their council, into
their household, nor yet into the company of Christian men. These men
ought not therefore so unreasonably to triumph against our living. It
had been more wisdom for them either first to have proved good their own
life before the world, or at least to have cloaked it a little more
cunningly. For we do use still the old and ancient laws, and (as much as
men may do, in the manners used at these days, all things are so wholly
corrupt) we diligently and earnestly put in execution the ecclesiastical
discipline: we have not common brothel-houses of strumpets, nor yet
flocks of concubines, nor herds of harlot-hunters: neither do we prefer
adultery before matrimony: neither do we exercise beastly sensuality:
neither do we gather ordinary rents and stipends of stews: nor do we
suffer to escape unpunished incest and abominable naughtiness, nor yet
such manquellers as