A

PARALLEL

OF THE

Doctrine of the PAGANS,

WITH THE

Doctrine of the JESUJLS;

And that of the

Conftitution UNIGENITUS

ISSUED BY

Pope CLEMENT XI. Divided into feveral Chapters and Sections, fhewing the contrary Sentiments of the PAGANS and JESUITS,

CONCERNING,

I. The Knowledge and Love
of God and Juftice.
II. The Worship due to God,
and the Love due to our
Neighbour.

III. Sins of Ignorance, and
wilful or premeditated Sins.
IV. Precipitant Abfolutions.
V. The fervile Fear of God.
VI. Vain Swearing.
VII. Concupifcence, and the
fenfual Pleafures.

VIII. Publick Shews, loofe
Conversation, obscene
Tracts, lafcivious Looks
and Behaviour.

IX. Sins of the Marriage Bed.
X. Pimps and Procurers.
XI. Luxury and Vanity of
Women.

XII. Gluttony and Drunken-
nefs.

XIII. The Murder of Kings, &c.

I will difcover thy Skirts upon thy Face, and I will shew the
Nations thy Nakedness, and the Kingdoms thy Shame.
And I will caft abominable Filth upon thee, and make thee vile,
and will fet thee as a gazing Stock. Nahum iii. 5, 6.

Tranflated from the Original printed in France. To which are added, Copies of the faid Conftitution, and of the 101 Propofitions of Father Quefnel thereby condemned.

LONDON, Printed for J. PEMBERTON at the Buck and Sun in Fleetstreet. 1726.

Daily Courant, September 10. 1726.

Arret of the Court of Parliament of Paris, of the 29th of August, 1726.

Extract of the Registers of the Parliament.

This Day the King's Council entred the Court, and M. Peter Gilbert de Voifins, the King's Advocate, fpeaking for the reft, faid,

Meffieurs,

W

E are bound in Duty to lay before the Court a printed Piece, a Copy whereof we have got, which bears all the Characters of a most scandalous Libel.

It is entitled, A Parallel of the Doctrine of the Pagans with that of the Jefuits, and of the Conftitution of Pope Clement XI. which begins with thefe Words, Unigenitus Dei Filius: And this Title, injurious in it felf, is accompanied with a Paffage out of the Holy Writ, the unjuftifiable Mifapplication whereof, fhews the highest Pitch of Animofity.

The fame Spirit runs thro' the whole Work ; for wherever the Author opposes the Moral of the Pagans to that of the most remifs Cafuift, and picks out of the Writings of the latter all that a pernicious Subtlety could fuggeft moft oppofite to the Purity of the Chriftian Moral, 'tis not so much with an Intent to confute the fame, as to injure a whole Religious Society, and especially to declaim against the Conftitution Unigenitus.

Transported by the Paffion which blinds him, every thing that confutes beforehand his Invectives and Calumnies against that Bull, irritates him the more. Nothing is fafe from the Strokes of his en

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