45. Passages expunged against Popish Monkery Vowes, Stewes, and Incon∣tinency of their Monks and Clergy.

THese clauses are deleted in Doctor Clerks Sermons page 341. with Papists O∣ratio, is Aratio, they worke as at the Plough; men pray almost all day, Monastery rise in the night too.

Ibid. page 371. What meant that Monk that said Rominizare, was Sodomizare, Rome was turned Sodome, the whole city.

Ibidem, page 218. Answ. 1. But the Monkish life is not persecution (except thus, because the Locusts, which are no other but Monks and Fryars) Revel. 16. doe bite and sting like Serpents, that is, doe secretly wound mens consciences. And foure lines after An. 3. All goe not to Christ that come into Monasteries, but rather goe from him; they living after another rule then Christs, for Francis their great founder erected a new sect of Monkery, and found out a new rule for them, which he called Regulam Evan∣gelicam, the rule of the Gospel, as though Christs rule were not sufficient.

And page 309. Thirdly, so the Papists being ignorant of the way of salvation, some∣times runne unto the Masse, sometimes enter into divers Orders of Monasteries, stag∣gering like a drunken man, too and fro, not knowing what way they should take to come into Heaven.