The new politick lights of modern Romes church-government: or The new Gospel according to Cardinal Palavicini revealed by him in his history of the Council of Trent. Englished out of French.

Reason X.

Poverty comes ordinarily from some one of these Five causes, Lust, Gluttony, Crime, Idleness or Misfortune; but the Four first are the most ordinary, so that of Ten Poor, a man scarce finds one that did not become so through his own fault, or his Ancestors, sì che di ognidieci poveri à fatica sitrovera uno la cui povertà non sia proceduta ò da colpa di lui ò degli antenati.* 1.1 So that pain being insepa∣rable from sin, makes this sin be as much feared, as a man fears the inseparable pain thereof, which in this Case is the sin it self, even poverty, though it be only out of Natu∣ral dread that a man hath of pains, which must not therefore be separated from the sin, nor must a bank be made for to relieve the Poor, because they being Poor are therefore guilty sinners; this would give boldness to men to sin, by taking away dread of those miseries which accompany poverty, which follows sin: It's better then to convert this bank unto the profit of the Prelates, and to inrich them and make a voluptuous carnal and devout life for them.

Notes

• * 1.1

  l. 9. c. 9.