Pure clergy mocked (Clémanges; Oldys; Park, The Harleian miscellany, 1809, vol. 4)

Text: "Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women..." Daniel 11:37 "Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; Forbidding to marry..." 1 Timothy 4:1-3

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   Taceo de fornicationibus et adulteriis, à quibus qui alieni sunt, probro cæteris ac ludibrio esse solent, spadonesque aut sodomitæ appellantur; (saith 836 Nicholas Clemangis,) speaking of your priests: 'I say nought of your priests' fornications and adulteries, from which crimes, if any man be free, he is made a laughing-stock to the rest, and either called an eunuch or a sodomite.'

Oldys, William; Park, Thomas, The Harleian miscellany: A collection of scarce, curious, and entertaining pamphlets and tracts, as well in manuscript as in print, selected from the library of Edward Harley, Second Earl of Oxford, interspersed with historical, political, and critical annotations, and some additional notes, London: Printed for White and Co., and John Murray; and John Harding, 1809, vol. 4, p. 129.

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