BECAN. Exam.* 1.1
YOu cite out of Bellarmine these words (If the Pope should command vice, and forbid vertue, the Church were bound to belieue vertue to be euil, and vice good.) but most deceitfully. For Bellarmine doth not abso∣lutely affirme that which you faine, but vpon condition: that, grant one absurdity, another will follow. Bellarmines words are these: It can not be, that the Pope should erre, in commanding any vice, or forbidding vertue, because then he should erre about faith. For the Catholike faith teacheth, that all vertue is good, and all vice is euill. But if the Pope should erre, in commanding vices, and prohibiting vertues; the Church were bound to be∣lieue vices to be good, and vertues euill, vnlesse it would sinne a∣gainst conscience.
Dr. HARRIS Reply.
THis Iesuit makes Bellarmine write farre worse, than as I produced him. For in my Citation, he spake thus: If the Pope should command vice,