on pretence of promoting the Catholic cause or religion: furthermore, they believe that all pardons or dispensations granted, or pretended to be granted, in order to such ends or designs, could have no other validity or effect, than to add sacrilege and blasphemy to the above crimes.
PROPOSITION XVII.
Detesting the immoral doctrine of equivocation and mental reservation, the Catholic Church ever inculcated, and inculcates, that simplicity and godly sincerity are truly Christian virtues, necessary to the conservation of justice, truth, and common security.
Of the truth of these two Propositions I shall again offer no proof. They stand on the eternal basis of right and wrong, which no authority—if any such were pretended ;no usage—if any such were claimed-could ever violate without a crime. The Roman Catholic Church we have shewn to be Apostolical and Holy. And here likewise modern authorities may be consulted.
