A detection of sundrie foule errours, lies, sclaunders, corruptions, and other false dealinges, touching doctrine, and other matters vttered and practized by M.Iewel, in a booke lately by him set foorth entituled, a defence of the apologie. &c. By Thomas Harding doctor of diuinitie.

M. Iewel in the first parte of his Defence pagina. 7.

The Manicheis forbad lavvful marriage, and allovved fornication, as M. Hardinges Catholiques doo novve. So saith S. Augustine of them, Nu∣ptiarum aditus intercludunt, & promiscuè conuenire hortantur.

Harding.

You sclaunder vs M. Iewel most vniustly, and impu∣dently. The Catholiques neuer forbad lawful marriage. And it is knowen to al the worlde, that Fornication was neuer allowed in the Catholique Churche at any time, or age. For this, your weake proufes are out of Panormi∣tane, and other Canonistes. Panormitane speaking of his time, saith, that fornication in the Clergie was not pouni∣shed then, so greuously, as in olde time. This proueth not that it was then allowed. Though a Clerke be not pouni∣shed for fornication with Deposition, whiche is a perpe∣tual remouing from the ministerie of the Aulter: yet he might be pounished, and was to be pounished otherwise,

as with Suspension, or D••priuation, and with other me••¦nes at the discretion of the Ordinarie. Now the truth is Panormitane teacheth not, that a Clerke is not to be pou¦nished for Fornication at al: but that he is not to be pou∣nished with Deposition indistinctè, indistinctly, as the au∣steritie of the Primitiue Church required, when Clerkes were generally deposed for euery mortal sinne without distinction. How, and in what sorte, a Clerke is now to be pounished for fornication, Panormitane sheweth at large, where he speaketh thereof purposely, as I haue be∣fore declared, in my Answere to the View of Vntruthes, in the. 9. Vntruthe. fol. 69. a.

Againe the Manicheis by your pretensed proufe out of S. Augustine, Nuptiarum aditus intercludunt, & promi∣scuè conuenire hortabantur, excluded al men from marriage generally, and exhorted their followers to vse carnal dea∣ling together one with an other in common, without di∣stinction of al degrees of personnes. For so signifieth the Latine worde, promiscuè. But who seeth not this exce∣dingly to passe simple Fornication? And to exhorte men and weemen to suche abominable Bauderie, who seeth it not to passe without al comparison, the not most extrem•• pounishing of Bauderie? Beholde reader, how immode∣ratly M. Iewel sclaundereth vs.

Notes

• In quaest. in No. Tes. q. 72.
• Fornica∣tion in a Clerke ne¦uer allo∣vved, but alvvaies punished, though diuersly, accordīg to diuer∣sitie of times.
• In Cap. At si clerici. Extrà de Iudic.
• August. in Quaest. in Nouum Testam. quast. 72.