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It transmits the best precepts, and those most suited to the more corrupt morals of our time, concerning the pious and holy ordering of the life of priests. Everything has been drawn from the clearest fountains of theological doctrine. It contains nothing except the most salutary admonitions, nothing, finally, except the straightest and most pleasant road to attaining salvation."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-1","html_id":"p-en-0001-0010","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0001:p-0010","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":1,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0001","sequence":10,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-1","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0001-0010"},"text":"But since there is scarcely anything so new and unheard-of that it can be devised or said by us without having already been said and heard more often before, we neither can nor wish to deny that some other theologians of most celebrated name have treated the same matter. For in the time in which he lived, already a hundred years ago, either the same crimes were flourishing as today, or he foretold that this tempest of ours would be polluted by so many crimes, so vividly does he depict the morals and life of most men; and indeed he sets excellently before our eyes what is to be done by us and what is to be fled. This was the principal reason why we judged that his most pious little book should be commended to you above the rest."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-1","html_id":"p-en-0001-0011","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0001:p-0011","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":1,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0001","sequence":11,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-1","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0001-0011"},"text":"To this is added that we hear Urban, our predecessor, whose memory we honor and whose footsteps we gladly follow, was accustomed to commend this same treatise to you. Since, therefore, it is our duty to go before you, to call you, to stir you up, be persuaded that we do this all the more willingly and more often because we see that our exhortations among you are not empty; and we ourselves already perceive no small fruits from them, and our whole flock will shortly receive far richer ones, if you do what you do of your own accord"},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-1","html_id":"p-en-0002-0001","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0002:p-0001","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":2,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0002","sequence":1,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-2","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0002-0001"},"text":"...you do, you will more readily, at our prayers, have shaped your life according to the precepts of the venerable father Trithemius. We think that none of you is unaware how great the examples of pastors are among the unlearned multitude; if anything is done rather freely by them, it thinks not only that this is permitted to itself, but we often see it add and contribute much of its own. Therefore show yourselves, by example and by speech, such as it is fitting that those should be who have almost all the means of their salvation dependent upon you. Farewell, mindful of your office and duty."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-1","html_id":"p-en-0002-0002","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0002:p-0002","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":2,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0002","sequence":2,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-2","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0002-0002"},"text":"Given at Strasbourg, from our episcopal citadel, on the Kalends of February, in the year from salvation restored 1577."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-1","html_id":"p-en-0002-0003","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0002:p-0003","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":2,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0002","sequence":3,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-2","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0002-0003"},"text":"Hexastich to the Reader"},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-1","html_id":"p-en-0002-0004","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0002:p-0004","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":2,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0002","sequence":4,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-2","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0002-0004"},"text":"One man, chaste in conduct, will unroll this pious work, while another, with impure heart, will read it through: let the former rejoice that he leads a life equal to its admonitions, and let him hope for the pleasing rewards of the eternal house. Let the latter fear, unless he become better through right teaching, lest in his own life he feel God as avenger."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-1","html_id":"p-en-0002-0005","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0002:p-0005","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":2,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0002","sequence":5,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-2","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0002-0005"},"text":"The Little Book of Johannes Trithemius, Abbot, to Nicolaus Mernicensis, Priest, on the Life of Priests to Be Ordered"},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-1","html_id":"p-en-0002-0006","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0002:p-0006","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":2,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0002","sequence":6,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-2","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0002-0006"},"text":"Chapter One"},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":["trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0002:p-0007:annotation-001","trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0002:p-0007:annotation-002"],"chapter_id":"ch-1","html_id":"p-en-0002-0007","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0002:p-0007","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":2,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0002","sequence":7,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-2","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0002-0007"},"text":"You ask of me, Nicolaus, most beloved brother, and urge me with frequent letters, that I should commend to you in writing a pattern for living praiseworthily in the priesthood. You compel me to labor beyond the powers of my intellect, and expose me to be torn by the bites of rivals, who on this account will judge me presumptuous, [unclear] I have learned, I should wish to show you. And although [unclear]"},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":["trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0002:p-0008:annotation-001"],"chapter_id":"ch-1","html_id":"p-en-0002-0008","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0002:p-0008","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":2,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0002","sequence":8,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-2","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0002-0008"},"text":"[unclear]"},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-1","html_id":"p-en-0002-0009","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0002:p-0009","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":2,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0002","sequence":9,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-2","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0002-0009"},"text":"although the matter stands thus, nevertheless I prefer to undergo the judgment of rivalry rather than suffer harm to my charity toward you. For I have always cherished you with so great an affection that I have never been accustomed to deny you anything when you ask. Therefore, wishing to satisfy your prayers, I have resolved to commend to you a rule of living from the writings of the saints: not because it would be wholly sufficient in every respect for your state, but so that, as some sort of beginning, it may lead you, if you wish, into honorable conduct. First of all, then, I admonish you to weigh, from the definition of the name, the state of the conduct enjoined. For we are called clerics, as many of us as have been specially chosen into the lot of the Lord. Let us therefore interpret the word of the name, and we shall understand the quality of the prescribed honorableness. For cleros in Greek is interpreted as sors, “lot,” in Latin. From cleros, therefore, clerics are said to be chosen into the Lord’s lot. If, then, we recognize that we have been called into God’s lot, why do we still serve the world? Why do we seek an inheritance in the land of the dying, we who await God promising himself to us as an inheritance? For in the Old Testament we read that the Lord commanded the priests and Levites not to receive an inheritance among the children of Israel, their brothers, because he himself was their inheritance. Now, therefore, if you think yourself to be a cleric, you ought to walk more honorably than other men by the excellence of your conduct, and by no means love the perishable riches of this world. For if you have subjected your soul to the inheritance of the age, you will be placed outside the lot of the Lord with the foolish. For the Lord will not deign to receive you among his elect if, going after gold, you have resolved to love the world. Avarice is most shameful in a priest of Christ, for it makes a servant of God a minister of idols. If it has once seized your soul, it never again lets it go in control of itself. For no one can serve two discordant masters. “You cannot,” he says, “serve God and Mammon.” You will not be able to be a good cleric if you have been avaricious. But I know, and by long experience in living with you I have learned, that nature has made you frugal; beware lest you turn a gift of grace into fuel for greed. Indeed, those who wish to become rich in this world frequently fall into the temptations of the devil. But the minister of God must be separated from the anxiety of the world, because a free mind cannot go to God if it has been entangled in earthly cares. Hence we wear shaved crowns on the head, so that, casting off superfluities, we may freely prepare an ascent to God in thought. For the hairs of the head, superfluous earthly..."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":["trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0003:p-0001:annotation-001"],"chapter_id":"ch-1","html_id":"p-en-0003-0001","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0003:p-0001","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":3,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0003","sequence":1,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-3","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0003-0001"},"text":"[unclear] signify activity. And just as the hairs of the head arise from a superfluity of humor, so the cares of the world grow from love of money. Therefore, when we shave the hairs of the head in the form of a crown, let us despise all the cares of the world. And just as the head is the more eminent part of the body, so the mind is the supreme power of reason. For this reason we wear crowns on the head, so that, freed from earthly cares, we may be raised more freely in mind to the contemplation of God. Hence we cloistered men, who are called monks, adorned with very ample crowns, leave fewer hairs on the head, so that we may show more fully that we are dead to the active life and at leisure in contemplation of heavenly things. Now attend to the definition of the name, and take care, by worthy merits of life, to correspond to the lot assigned by the heavenly Creator. With all vigilance keep your heart, lest desire sink you into the depth of avarice, lest the fire of lust drag your soul down with sinners into the mire of luxury, lest the haughtiness of pride draw you with it to hell, to be tortured without end. Beware lest through the cares of this world you fall away from the lot of God; beware lest you lose the reputation of a good name; beware lest you proceed in the way of those who despise God. Consider the ruin of many priests around you, and always be afraid for your own similar danger. Nowhere among mortals is life more secure than when danger is always feared. Hence it is written: Blessed is the man who is always fearful; but he who is hard of mind will fall into evil. Indeed, he who fears danger takes heed; he who neglects it falls into it. It is fitting that the minister of Christ, the priest of God, should be a man, not a boy, so that he may know and understand what sort of burden he has undertaken, for the administration of which he will have to render account in the strict judgment of God."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-1","html_id":"p-en-0003-0002","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0003:p-0002","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":3,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0003","sequence":2,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-3","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0003-0002"},"text":"Let him therefore be prudent, sober, chaste, and quiet; let him be modest, kindly, gentle, so that he who is appointed teacher of an unlearned people may suffer no contempt on account of his own manner of life. It belongs to the priest, when questioned, to answer concerning the law, constantly to rebuke the vices of his subjects by the words of holy preaching, and for love of truth to fear no adversities. It is fitting that he who exercises the priesthood among the people of God should be a man learned in the divine law, so that he may know how to bring forth in due season things new and old, lest among mute dogs unable to bark he lose the dignity of his office. It is now your task, O Nicholas, to rebuke the vices of others with diligent admonition, and to show yourself free from vices, lest, if you rebuke crimes while yourself vicious, you make yourself liable to condemnation. For no one can confidently reprove in another what he remembers, with conscience as witness, that he himself has committed. Therefore he who sits to judge the sins of others must be irreprehensible, because he who commits in himself what he rebukes in others does not amend, but provokes. Priests are found similar to hypocrites when they are angry with offending brothers over lighter matters, and yet do not wish anyone to be indignant with themselves over weightier ones. Wretched is the condition of human frailty: sinner condemns sinner, and in an equal crime he pronounces an unequal sentence. I should be lying if very often an adulterer did not rebuke his neighbor for fornication; a judge vicious in many things condemns a few vices in another, and, so that he may be able to conceal his own depravity, he makes manifest the offenses of all. Against such a one it is said by the Lord: Hypocrite, first cast out the beam which you carry in your own eye, and thus you will see the splinter in another’s. Why does a sacrilegious man reprove a thief? Why does a criminal rebuke one who is vicious? Altogether fruitless will be the correction which an equal foulness of life stains. Therefore, so that you may be free from the reproach of hypocrites, beware, when correcting another, of offending in a similar sin. Correction will never become useful among subjects while he who presides bows his neck to public sins. Indeed, the right of correction is lost when the conduct of the corrector is stained by the vices of his subjects. The authority of the priesthood becomes worthless if public iniquity corrupts the honorableness of conduct. Therefore let every correction take its beginning in its own author, and only then proceed securely into public. Let him whose own conscience gnaws at him in a similar crime suspend for a time the sentence of correction. The condition of believers is now for the most part corrupted, and as the people are, so also is the priest. All devote themselves to avarice, from the greater even to the lowest."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":["trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0004:p-0001:annotation-001","trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0004:p-0001:annotation-002","trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0004:p-0001:annotation-003"],"chapter_id":"ch-1","html_id":"p-en-0004-0001","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0004:p-0001","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":4,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0004","sequence":1,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-4","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0004-0001"},"text":"to the lowest. Woe to the sinful people, which always slips down into more serious things, while it beholds its own judges liable to the same fault. Ecclesiastical authority has now come to such misery that we are ordered to embrace the words of priests, not their deeds. For the unhappy priests say of themselves, bearing witness to their own defilement: “Attend to the words of our instruction, O faithful of Christ; beware of our examples.” O words most worthy of everlasting confusion: as much as they ought to instruct the people of God by doctrine, so much do they scandalize them by perverse works. The unlearned and ignorant now come to the priesthood without discernment of merit, and by their most evil morals they unhappily kill Christ’s sheep. No holiness of life is now required in clerics to be ordained; no learning in letters is demanded; purity of conscience is not considered. It is enough among them if one can construe a running Sorites, if he can answer what part of speech “Lord” is, if he can understand “yes” and “no.” Woe to the bishops of our age, who, intent on secular business, do not consider the ordinations of clerics, but entrust the care of examination to the unskilled. How strict a sentence they will undergo, who show themselves to be the cause of all the evil in the Church. Indeed, since it is fitting for a priest of the faithful to be learned and holy, with what rashness do the unskilled come to the priesthood, who can instruct neither themselves nor others? For without learning, a good life in a cleric is not sufficient; nor does learning without [unclear] instruct the people healthfully. For [unclear] kills the teacher; life without learning makes him useless. For the madness of wolves is to be driven away by the barking of dogs and by the shepherd’s staff. Therefore the ecclesiastical shepherd should, through a good life, offer his sheep an example of righteousness, and through salutary doctrine feed the minds of his hearers, lest, if he does one without the other, he either neglect himself or carry out the care of the flock fruitlessly. Alas, what shall I say about our priests, unlearned and vicious, greedy, luxurious, and most wicked? I am ashamed to speak, and I cannot be silent. Look to yourself, dearest Nicholas, lest you become an imitator of those who, having despised the books of Scripture, spend the whole day at games and drinking, who defile themselves by intercourse with women, who by their depraved morals scandalize many in the law of God. Be an example of honor among the people of God in all things, so far as can be done, so that you may remove every occasion for evil suspicion. For it is necessary to have testimony even from those who are outside, because the word of one who preaches is easily despised when his life is marked among the people by evil suspicions. Therefore show yourself a cultivator of good works, so that you may be able to instruct the people of God no less by example than by speech. In order that you may be able to accomplish this salutarily, take care to avoid the company of the undisciplined; for he who does not flee the company of the wicked can scarcely manage to live without reproach. For Scripture says: “With the holy you will be holy, and with the perverse you will be perverted.” And again: “He who touches pitch will be defiled by it.” Everyone delights to have the companionship of his own way of life. For if you have not kept your foot from the assembly of evildoers, you will at all times be subject to the slanders of your subjects. A youthful mind is easily deceived by the company of the perverse. You are young, and [unclear] flexible toward either side. Therefore you must watch over yourself with the greatest diligence, lest you be depraved by the company of the undisciplined. For nothing harms the young so much as the depraved examples of elders. The younger you are, the more carefully must you take care to guard your life in the sincerity of the fear of the Lord. For it is written: “A youth according to his way, even when he has grown old, will not depart from it.” What you learn as a young man, you will practice in old age."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-1","html_id":"p-en-0004-0002","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0004:p-0002","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":4,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0004","sequence":2,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-4","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0004-0002"},"text":"On Avoiding the Company of Women. Chapter Two."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-1","html_id":"p-en-0004-0003","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0004:p-0003","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":4,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0004","sequence":3,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-4","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0004-0003"},"text":"But what shall I say about familiarity with women, which is most pernicious to the priests of God, since the decrees of the holy fathers forbid this with sufficiently strict prohibition? If I set before you the admonitions of the most blessed father Jerome, you will immediately cry out: “I cannot manage a household without the service of a maidservant; I am not able to prepare food for myself; I do not wish to clean dirty clothes.” “Why,” you say, “do you cite Jerome’s precepts to me, which bind only the will? Who made Jerome my lawgiver?” I say that the most holy universal Church approves his sayings, among the canons"},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":["trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0005:p-0001:annotation-001"],"chapter_id":"ch-1","html_id":"p-en-0005-0001","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0005:p-0001","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":5,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0005","sequence":1,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-5","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0005-0001"},"text":"[unclear] sets out his precepts on this matter at length, and do you presume against such great authority? But you will say: “Contrary custom has abrogated this law, and after a long time it must be regarded as law.” But iniquity lies to itself, and by foolish reasoning is deceived in itself. A custom contrary to good morals can never either remove or establish a law. And what is so contrary to priestly honor as to take pleasure in the companionship of young girls? Chastity is endangered where the fellowship of priests passes among little women. For the first and strongest temptations of clerics arise from frequent access to women. Foolish presumption has overthrown many who, so to speak, handed over to their enemies the instruments of victory with their own hands. Danger is avoided with the greatest difficulty if the occasion is not avoided. Indeed, while a woman stays with a cleric, and sits alone with him alone, prepares food for him as he eats and arranges the little bed for him as he sleeps, speaks to him, smiles at him, she supplies the kindling of lust. However holy a woman may be, she is always to be feared by a cleric. For just as sparks leap from coals, so the poison of concupiscence is spread from the constant familiarity of women. To a chaste man a familiar woman is the gate of the devil, the door of hell, the way of iniquity, the dreadful stroke of a scorpion, and a harmful kind of deception. When she comes near, she stirs him; when she speaks, she inflames him; when she touches, she burns him violently. We do not condemn the sex, but we warn of the danger to chastity. We read that Saint Augustine fled women so greatly that he did not permit even his own sister to enter his episcopal house. We too have known several priests who governed both the house and the people entrusted to them harmlessly for many years without the service of a maidservant. Nor will it be difficult for you to imitate what you see others have repeatedly done. Beware therefore, and do not approach the company of young girls, since even among old women it is difficult to live chastely. Remember with whom you speak at the altar, and do not pour out in wanton kisses the mouth consecrated to divine ministries. For it is most shameful, with hands consecrated by the oil of holy anointing, by which the Son of God is held and sacrificed, to touch a woman with polluted touchings. Do not give a stain to your glory, and your name as a reproach to all. All will tear you apart fiercely in public; in the field, rustic plowmen and vine-dressers will tear you apart daily, if, being yourself young, you presume to live with women, especially younger ones. You will become a proverb and a mockery to all the people if you often enter the dwellings of young women. Against your invisible enemy, who always flies around your side by lying in wait, keep watch at all times, and, according to Naso, resist the beginnings of evils, when the temptations are still weaker. For, as we see, after a cleric has once presented his body to the embraces of whores, rarely or never does he return to perfect amendment. For all who have lain sick with the perverse love of luxury return to health of mind with so much greater difficulty. Vice strongly inveterate fixes roots in the human heart. O how many priests there are today in the Church of God who, sunk in the depth of luxury, despise the long-suffering of God, as it is written: “When the impious man has come into the depths of evils, he despises.” There are many, without doubt, among clerics befouled with lust, who, although from the beginning of their promotion they proposed to live chastely, deceived by negligent custody of the senses, now without any fear of God, as if licitly by custom, mingle with whores. Nothing is worse than the custom of sin, by which it comes about that the gravest crimes are esteemed as the least. The strongest bond of sin is the custom of sinning, which grows with time and by delay takes increase of strength. Therefore he counseled most excellently against the fires of the flesh who said in verse:"},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-1","html_id":"p-en-0005-0002","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0005:p-0002","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":5,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0005","sequence":2,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-5","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0005-0002"},"text":"“Resist beginnings; medicine is prepared too late, when evils have grown strong through long delays. But hasten, and do not put yourself off to the hours to come: he who is not ready today will be less ready tomorrow.”"},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-1","html_id":"p-en-0005-0003","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0005:p-0003","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":5,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0005","sequence":3,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-5","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0005-0003"},"text":"“Do not delay to be converted to the Lord,” says Scripture, “nor put it off from day to day,” because the longer you have postponed repentance, the less fit you will be for repenting. Now ascend the watchtower of your mind, and see"},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-6","html_id":"p-en-0006-0001","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0006:p-0001","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":6,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0006","sequence":1,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-6","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0006-0001"},"text":"See the senseless folly of foolish priests, who are led captive by vile concubines, so that they do not do whatever they themselves wish, but what is commanded them by harlots. Meanwhile you would see the stupid cleric sitting beside his concubine and gazing at her open-mouthed: if she smiles at him, he laughs; if she has become angry, he flatters her until she is restored to favor. The unhappy priest is led captive by a woman, and he who ought to have ruled others is overcome by the dominion of his maidservant. Oh, who would believe what groans the wretched man utters amid these things, how often he thinks of casting off this most harsh yoke of the arch-devil, what pains he carries in his heart. At times, indeed, he is touched by such displeasure against his beast that he plans to drive her away from him on the morrow. Meanwhile he gives and receives abusive words, and finally after words it comes to blows: he strikes and is struck, he curses and is blasphemed."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-6","html_id":"p-en-0006-0002","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0006:p-0002","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":6,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0006","sequence":2,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-6","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0006-0002"},"text":"O astonishing spectacle: the head of a priest, which it is not lawful for a prince to touch, the hands of a whore tear, strike, and batter. At last, after curses and blows, the woman turns herself to weeping; with the devil pouring them in, she sheds tears until at length she recalls the unhappy captive to mercy and renders him placable toward herself. You would now discern the cleric suddenly changed, so moved by the tears of his Abra that he who had received the injury is the first to beg pardon. Then the table is set out, the banquet is renewed, sighs are mingled with words, dealings of new marriages are discussed. Amid these things the [stolid?] priest sits, disputing about patience and gentleness, sighing that he has sinned against his mistress, laboring with all his strength to recover her favor. What is done after the friendship has been renewed, it will be permitted you rather to think than for me to say."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-6","html_id":"p-en-0006-0003","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0006:p-0003","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":6,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0006","sequence":3,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-6","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0006-0003"},"text":"There is no fear of God before the eyes of a priest bound by the chains of a concubine, no dread of the punishments of hell, no thought of priestly dignity, no memory of public honor. This vice of incontinence has now prevailed so greatly among the clergy that it has almost begun to be lawful, because it is public. Lamentable condition of the human race: those who ought to have corrected the crimes of others commit graver ones. For shame, priests sit publicly in villages and cities, defamed by intercourse with their concubines, so that if some prelate should wish to correct such men in his diocese, overcome by their sheer multitude, he is frightened from his purpose. If you entered the house of any one of such men, you would see him carrying in his arms his little child, witness of his father’s fornication, and while reading the Canonical Hours consoling the crying child with words and songs; you would also see the unfortunate father rising from bed, taking the child upon his knees and, after giving him kisses, placing him on his right knee and the Breviary on his left. While praying he smiles at the laughing infant, flatters him when he cries, and addresses him when silent with frequent words and nods. Meanwhile the fond mother comes up; from the father’s hand the sweet pledge snatches the book, handles the leaves, tears them, and, with saliva flowing from his mouth, stains them with the parent’s permission. Amid these things there is no devotion in the one praying, no attention is applied to the words, but all concern is consumed in consoling the child as it cries. The words fall confused from the mouth of the one praying and are interrupted by the child’s frequent kisses, so that, when the prayer is completed, he scarcely remembers that he has prayed."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":["trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0006:p-0004:annotation-001","trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0006:p-0004:annotation-002"],"chapter_id":"ch-6","html_id":"p-en-0006-0004","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0006:p-0004","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":6,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0006","sequence":4,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-6","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0006-0004"},"text":"Meanwhile the sacristan pulls the bell, the altar is prepared for sacrifice [unclear], the priest is awaited by the people in the church. The priest hurries up with his hands washed in the child’s urine, puts on the sacred vestments with as much haste as he can, and completes the sacrifice of God with a distracted mind. O conscience, where do you meanwhile remain, where do you lie despised? O wretched man, you who handle the Son of God with polluted hands, how long will you wound and tear your soul [unclear]? With what rashness, then, do you approach the altar, polluted in body and soul? Unless the great compassion of almighty God spared you for a time, the provoked angels would strike you at the altar with heavy indignation. Where is the vow of perpetual chastity which you promised into the hands of the bishop when he ordained you? Where is the reverence for the priesthood you have assumed? How long will you despise the long-suffering of God? Or do you not know that the patience of God"},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":["trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0007:p-0001:annotation-001"],"chapter_id":"ch-6","html_id":"p-en-0007-0001","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0007:p-0001","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":7,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0007","sequence":1,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-7","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0007-0001"},"text":"of God leads you to repentance? But according to your hardness and impenitent heart, you store up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath and of the just judgment of Jesus Christ. I suppose indeed that you are thinking of repenting in the future, but you by no means consider how very near death is, the cutter-off of repentance. For the merciful God, who promised pardon to the penitent, did not pledge tomorrow to the one who delays. Moreover, a cleric whom a woman living with him has once carried off captive she never, or rarely, releases as free, unless death intervenes. I pass over the fact that many, through the tricks and sorceries of concubines, are very often so maddened that they cannot in any way shake themselves free from their most shameful love for them. The hearing shudders at the crimes of [unclear], nor does the purity of chastity permit one to hear what things are sometimes perpetrated by the concubines of priests. They make a stew for their lords from menstrual blood; and while they desire to entice them to their love, they turn them into colic and madness. By dreadful sorceries and superstitions they entangle priests in their lusts, until, their strength gradually exhausted, they render them utterly useless. Blessed is the man whom God has kept safe from an evil and lustful woman. There is no wickedness above the malice of a woman who enjoys evil loves. Whatever she devises, she attempts; whatever she can do, she dares. No one believes what efforts, ways, and inventions she uses, so that the man whom she plans to deceive she may lay low for her pleasures with an indissoluble bond. She joins herself to her lord according to her wishes, not because she loves him, but because she desires him. For the crowd of concubines follows the prey, not the priest. So long as he is rich, she abounds in everything and does not leave her lord’s side. But if he has begun to lack bread, the concubine turns herself to another. Sometimes, however, on account of the children, the priest and the concubine are so glued together that they cannot by any means be separated from one another, except by death."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-6","html_id":"p-en-0007-0002","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0007:p-0002","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":7,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0007","sequence":2,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-7","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0007-0002"},"text":"It also often happens that some prefer to give up their prebends rather than their concubines. You are not ignorant of what happened to your first teacher. He, most miserably led astray by the savage love of that harlot whom you know, since because of fear of her husband he did not dare live with her openly, despising his homeland, his relatives, and the benefices he had, in order that he might freely enjoy her, departed, fleeing secretly with her. And to this present day no one knows where he went. I know a certain priest from among the concubinary priests; when, for his sin, I rebuked him privately, I finally brought him to this point, that he was willing thereafter to promise perpetual continence into my hands. And when I pressed him to cast out his concubine at once, he answered, “I cannot.” “Why?” I asked. “If I cast her off,” he said, “who would take care of my little children?” For he already had two boys by her. “I am poor,” he said; “I cannot put them out for hire. Therefore I will not cast out their mother until the little children grow up, lest I become guilty of blood. Yet I shall be chaste with her as chaste, nor henceforth shall I be joined to her in any mingling.” “And what will you do,” I asked, “if, before those children have grown up, others arise in their place?” He swore that he wished to take care that this should not happen. “You will not amend the fault,” I said, “unless you cast out the concubine. It is difficult to leave accustomed things, and to abstain from former vices while the occasion is present. No one will cherish a serpent in his bosom unharmed.” The man went away to his house, and has pursued his domestic crimes down to this day."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":["trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0007:p-0003:annotation-001"],"chapter_id":"ch-6","html_id":"p-en-0007-0003","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0007:p-0003","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":7,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0007","sequence":3,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-7","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0007-0003"},"text":"I considered the works of God, since what he has despised no one can amend. So difficult is it for a priest once fallen into fornication to be able to rise again to true chastity that out of all of them you can scarcely find one. For according to Scripture: “He who commits sin is the slave of sin”; and he who is subjected to shameful love is scarcely ever wholly freed. For fornication is more easily fled than amended. Therefore, I warn and entreat you to flee the company of women, lest you lose the reputation of a good name. For once a priest has been made infamous for fornication, he will never recover the honor he has lost. Avoid conversations with women, decline frequent greetings in the marketplace, because through light words one comes to the worst deeds. For incautious speech with women has deceived many. Be watchful at all times, and never [unclear] yourself"},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":["trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0008:p-0001:annotation-001"],"chapter_id":"ch-6","html_id":"p-en-0008-0001","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0008:p-0001","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":8,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0008","sequence":1,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-8","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0008-0001"},"text":"in whom you have thought one should put trust, so long as you live in the flesh. For we have known very many who slipped in old age, who seemed secure to themselves because of their past victory. For temptation is never lacking to a man so long as he lives in this life. But if you undertake domestic care without the service of a maidservant, take on one who is respectable, from whose living with you no suspicion can arise among the people. Nevertheless, above all take care of this: that you not take a married woman as your maidservant. For what God has joined together, let man not separate. The cohabitation of another man’s wife is not free from suspicion of evil. I wish you, so far as can be, to have a good testimony from all. Let the dangers of others make you cautious, and where you see that many have fallen, do not wish to walk incautiously. Remember that the strongest and wisest men, from the beginning of the world down to this day, have perished through the company of women. A woman deceived Adam, the first-formed, and, once he had been overthrown, slew us all. From the beginning of the created world, through women the sons of God sinned, and by their crimes brought the flood upon the whole world. Women of the foreigners also laid low in the desert the children of Israel as they came out of Egypt. Why do we recount these things, when a lowly little harlot, having captured Samson, the strongest of all men, with her charms, handed him over to death and disgrace? Let no one presume on his strength; let no one trust in his former chastity, since he who often today [unclear] seems to fall into fornication. The very wise Solomon could not guard against the deceits of women; who now will be safe? The strong and wise man falls by the sword of women, and do we, frail and foolish, presume upon security? For he who fell says: The wickedness of a man is better than a woman doing good. It is safer to live with a wicked man than with a good woman. For the adversary of chastity, the devil, never ceases to set snares for the chaste man. If he can find material for deceiving him, since he is cunning, he knows how to dissemble for a time, until at last in one hour he can overturn all the labor and reward of past continence. He inserts himself little by little among those who love, and under the appearance of Christian charity sows sweet words about virtues and vices, until he draws the incautious into the snare of crime. Then they begin thereafter to speak more familiarly; each opens his more secret matters to the other; little by little they grow accustomed to touching one another with their hands. Finally, through mutual laughter, future marriages are prepared: while from habit they live familiarly, they suddenly fall into the pit of the devil. But after they have once fallen into mutual guilt, they seem to themselves to abhor the deed somewhat, but they cannot easily withdraw from what they have begun. Therefore they proceed on the path on which they had begun, and although in the beginning conscience abhors the crime, nevertheless from habit it gradually bears it more lightly. And at first, indeed, they begin to act wantonly with a certain bashful fear, but afterward, blinded by depraved habit, they are no longer ashamed. Meanwhile the belly, conscious of the secret, begins to swell, and to disclose publicly the crime that had been hidden. At last a little child is born; for a brief time the father and mother are ashamed, and immediately they return to their accustomed crimes. Then thereafter all shame is cast far away, the eye of conscience is blinded, the fear of God and of hell is utterly driven from memory. Now they live freely in sins, joined by a diabolical glue; they live defamed before men; they live alienated from God. Soon the inveterate crime is turned into despair; the remedy of repentance is mocked; the long-suffering of God’s patience is despised. Meanwhile the priest is made a slave to lust to such a degree that he seems unable to live without a concubine. He can indeed amend his sin, but he refuses, because he feels himself delightfully entangled in the bonds of luxury. He promises himself that he will undertake a resolution of repentance in the future; he promises to amend his life. But while amid so many crimes he postpones the will to repent, he loses both time and ability alike. Hence it comes about that healthy priests who keep concubines rarely come to the remedies of saving repentance, because they hope that life will still be prolonged for a long time. For to such an extent some"},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-6","html_id":"p-en-0009-0001","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0009:p-0001","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":9,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0009","sequence":1,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-9","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0009-0001"},"text":"some are driven mad by diabolical enticements, so that they can think of nothing other than carnal things and care nothing for the recompense to come. They love a wicked concubine more than eternal blessedness. What repentance do you suppose these men perform at the end, when they are pressed not by will but by necessity? Those who have spent the whole time of their life in lust rarely attain true repentance in the final moments of their life. For even if the late repentance of such men, by God's mercy, sometimes becomes true, nevertheless they will not be able to reach the kingdom of heaven without the most grievous torments of purgatory. Finally, if revelations are to be believed, a very great multitude of clerics among those below suffers, because of the vice of incontinence, immeasurable punishments that will last for eternity. You see whither incautious familiarity with women drags a cleric: it condemns him to the eternal torments of hell."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-6","html_id":"p-en-0009-0002","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0009:p-0002","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":9,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0009","sequence":2,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-9","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0009-0002"},"text":"Therefore one must resist the beginnings of temptations, because lust is never better conquered than if it is avoided by flight. For if once it has entangled you through habit, it never lets you go free without the special grace of God. If you hesitate to put faith in our words, read the examples of the elders. But there is no need to seek examples in books, since you can find proofs before your eyes. Behold, today we know many aged priests whose life we know to be incontinent. We see age growing old in them, and the vices of youth by no means ceasing. And when they come to extreme old age, they do not give up their depraved ways, but as they have always been from the beginning, so too they go to death. You would see among them priests already decrepit who have drunk in the poison of lust to such a degree that, when because of old age they can no longer be wanton in deed, they burn for their accustomed things in thought, word, and gestures. Of such men the Lord says through the Prophet: If the Ethiopian can change his skin, and the leopard his spots, then you also will be able to do good, when you have learned evil. In old men, however, intercourse with women may cease, but the desire for the act remains as before. Therefore, such as you desire to be as an old man, live as such now also while young. For it is difficult for an old man to correct his ways and to think new things in an old mind. Indeed, old age has its ways; it does not receive them. He who wantons with a woman as a young man raves as an old man. Therefore it is good for a man when he has borne the yoke of the Lord from his youth, because if anyone has been evil in youth, rarely will he be good in old age."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-6","html_id":"p-en-0009-0003","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0009:p-0003","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":9,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0009","sequence":3,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-9","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0009-0003"},"text":"On the Remedy against Lust. Chapter Three."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":["trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0009:p-0004:annotation-001"],"chapter_id":"ch-6","html_id":"p-en-0009-0004","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0009:p-0004","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":9,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0009","sequence":4,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-9","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0009-0004"},"text":"Physicians are accustomed first to show the seriously ill the gravity of the disease by subtle disputation, and only then to apply the aid of a remedy; for once the seriousness of the illness is known, the bitterness of the potion terrifies less. Intending to do this with you, I first disclosed to you by manifold demonstration the danger of living together with a woman, and, as far as was permitted, I declared what the end of this disease is. It follows, therefore, that we now consider the remedy. For the flesh always lusts against the spirit, and unless it is restrained by a salutary exercise, [unclear] and casts itself headlong into that abyss of damnation. Hence the poet aptly warns, saying:"},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-6","html_id":"p-en-0009-0005","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0009:p-0005","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":9,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0009","sequence":5,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-9","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0009-0005"},"text":"If you take away idleness, the bows of desire have perished, and the torches, scorned, lie without light."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-6","html_id":"p-en-0009-0006","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0009:p-0006","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":9,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0009","sequence":6,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-9","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0009-0006"},"text":"For Holy Scripture bears witness that every idle person is in his desires. Therefore he who desires to extinguish the vice of lust must continually exercise himself in some holy work. Idleness, indeed, is the enemy of the soul. Hence blessed Jerome admonishes someone, saying: Always do some good thing, so that the devil may find you occupied. The best remedy against evil thoughts is the occupation of some holy work. Indeed, while the mind is delightfully intent upon some good exercise, it does not think of anything else. Access will not lie open to the devil if the mind has been occupied in some exercise. Take an example in holy David, who, occupied with matters of war, subdued lust; remaining idle at home, he committed adultery. While the hand"},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":["trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0010:p-0001:annotation-001"],"chapter_id":"ch-10","html_id":"p-en-0010-0001","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0010:p-0001","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":10,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0010","sequence":1,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-10","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0010-0001"},"text":"the hand is free from work, the mind languishes in thought. If therefore you desire to overcome lust, flee idleness. But to what exercises you ought to devote your time, receive in a few words, if you please. In the morning accustom yourself to rise from sleep before daylight, and to spend a little time in both the canonical and the votive prayers. And when the assigned task of service [unclear], you will thereafter devote yourself to sacred things, until you understand that you have been called by duty to celebrate Mass. After Mass one must again devote oneself to prayers, and apply oneself as devoutly as possible to holy meditations. Then one must work with the hands, attend to the affairs of the house, and, if anything must be arranged out of necessity, let it be disposed with the fear of God. The manual work of a priest is to write, to bind books copied by himself or by others, or printed ones, and to apply himself to other honorable labors according to his condition or necessity."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-10","html_id":"p-en-0010-0002","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0010:p-0002","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":10,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0010","sequence":2,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-10","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0010-0002"},"text":"Then, after food has been taken, thanks must be rendered to God, who feeds us here on earth, and again one must pray that after this life he may feed us without end in heaven. When these things have been duly completed, one must not immediately go off to stories, but must again devote oneself to sacred letters. Then one must work with the hands until evening, which should not extend beyond the fourth hour in manual work. But when, with the day now declining, one must sleep, first let recourse be had to most devout prayers. When these have been completed, crying out before [him] that you are guilty of your acts, you should demand pardon and indulgence; for if you have judged yourself, you will be absolved by God. And unless you have constantly kept yourself in the fear of the Lord, the house of your conscience will quickly be overturned. But if you have been overtaken in any fault, immediately have recourse to the lamentation of penitence, and choose, if it can be done, such a confessor as both knowledge of the Scriptures proves suitable and conduct commends. For he who lives in blameworthy conduct rarely opens in truth the way of salvation to those who confess."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-10","html_id":"p-en-0010-0003","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0010:p-0003","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":10,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0010","sequence":3,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-10","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0010-0003"},"text":"But if, when the enemy suggests them, you feel temptations of the flesh in your soul, drive them out as quickly as possible by prayers and holy exercises. Slippery is the serpent of lust, and unless it is crushed in the head, it is not easily destroyed. While the adversary is still weak, he is easily overcome. Nor, if you have sometimes conquered, should you think yourself secure, because the victory is not complete where battle is waged daily. Therefore, as long as you can be subjected, do not believe that you have conquered. Do not trust in your own strength, do not arrogate victory to yourself, but know that your hope consists in the aid of God alone. For no one is chaste by his own powers. For good will, aided by the grace of God, conquers the flesh. One must, however, pray without interruption to the Lord against temptations of the flesh, and say: Pierce my flesh with thy fear, for I have feared thy judgments. Do not love the delights of this world, which will soon make you vanish away and easily kindle you with the heat of lust. In your food let excess be avoided, and let not variety of dishes move appetite, but hunger. Let not incentives to lusts be set before you, but things that nourish the body, not inflame it. Let wine, in which there is luxury, always be suspect to you, lest you be inflamed by a double heat, that is, of drink and of youth. He fosters the fire of luxury in his bosom who makes constant use of wine. The exposure of Noah's shameful parts and the incest of Lot should warn you always to fear wine. For drunkenness is the burial of a living man: it destroys the senses, extinguishes reason, binds the mind, wounds the conscience, diminishes the health of the body, kills the soul. Drunkenness, a spring of evils, excites the flesh to luxury, pollutes the heart with the worst thoughts, and loosens the tongue into the most shameful words. It is the saying of the most holy Jerome: A full belly easily foams into lust. Therefore let refreshment be moderate for the chaste man, let drink be sparing and thin, let speech be modest. Let him beware familiarity with women; let him direct his senses with every guard, lest he fall into the pit of lust. As often as a base thought begins to knock at the mind, let the memory of the Lord's Passion come upon him; let him set his thought in the wounds of Jesus Christ. For it is written: Blessed is he who shall hold and dash his little ones against the rock. But the rock, says the Apostle, was Christ. For the recollection of the Lord's Passion, of all"},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-10","html_id":"p-en-0011-0001","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0011:p-0001","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":11,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0011","sequence":1,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-11","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0011-0001"},"text":"is the most effective remedy against all temptations. Indeed, the man whom the passion of Christ does not soften, no exercise will cure. Therefore, as soon as the lust of the flesh begins to attack the spirit, let the cultivator of chastity lift his hands to heaven and say: Lord Jesus Christ, lover of chaste counsel, you know that my strength to resist is slight; help my infirmity, through your bitter passion. I believe in the Lord that, if he perseveres in prayer with devotion, he will easily obtain victory against the flesh."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-10","html_id":"p-en-0011-0002","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0011:p-0002","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":11,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0011","sequence":2,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-11","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0011-0002"},"text":"But I wish you, most beloved brother, to avoid not only shameful deeds but also shameful words. For evil conversations corrupt good morals. Nor should you wish to imitate those who, giving themselves to filthy talk, think themselves chaste in heart. For it is an indication of the abundance of the heart. What each person is like hidden within himself, his speech when uttered proves."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-10","html_id":"p-en-0011-0003","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0011:p-0003","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":11,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0011","sequence":3,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-11","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0011-0003"},"text":"There are some, and indeed many priests, who by their wanton conduct violate the purity of their consciences, although they do not bodily proceed to the act of lust. They sit with women, speaking shameful things; they mix itching touches and kisses; amid these things they boast that they are chaste. And where remains the saying of the Lord: Whoever has looked at a woman to desire her has already committed adultery with her in his heart? If it is not lawful for a chaste man to look at a woman in order to desire her, how much less to touch her immodestly, to kiss her, to handle her with his hands."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-10","html_id":"p-en-0011-0004","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0011:p-0004","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":11,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0011","sequence":4,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-11","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0011-0004"},"text":"For the Apostle says: Abstain from every appearance of evil, as befits saints. Does it not seem to you an appearance of evil for men who are chaste to sit among others and to be maddened by the kisses and touches of young women? I would be lying if I had not seen priests, prelates of higher rank, spend the whole day on ships in obscene touches and kisses of women, and have no reverence for their dignity. It is an indication of inward lust when someone is accustomed to speak shameful words and to join touches to them. Amid these things, will chastity of mind remain uninjured?"},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-10","html_id":"p-en-0011-0005","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0011:p-0005","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":11,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0011","sequence":5,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-11","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0011-0005"},"text":"But you, dearest Nicolaus, if you desire to show yourself a minister worthy of God, if you wish to escape the most harsh yoke of lust, abstain not only from shameful deeds but also from shameful words and from the touch of women. It is impossible for the mind not to be wounded when, acting wantonly with kiss and hand, you touch a woman. Remember your last things, the wise man warns, and you will not sin forever. For nothing restrains so much as the intent remembrance of death."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-10","html_id":"p-en-0011-0006","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0011:p-0006","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":11,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0011","sequence":6,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-11","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0011-0006"},"text":"On Reading and the Study of the Scriptures. Chapter Four."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-10","html_id":"p-en-0011-0007","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0011:p-0007","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":11,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0011","sequence":7,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-11","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0011-0007"},"text":"I know and have experienced that the most effective remedy against all temptations is study and the reading of the Scriptures. For blessed Jerome says: Love knowledge of the Scriptures, and you will not love the vices of the flesh. For Scripture alone is what promises us a heavenly remedy in tribulation. What will we be able to know or believe about the heavenly homeland if we do not have the Scriptures? For the Apostle says: All Scripture is divinely inspired, so that through patience and the consolation of the Scriptures we may have hope."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-10","html_id":"p-en-0011-0008","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0011:p-0008","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":11,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0011","sequence":8,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-11","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0011-0008"},"text":"Therefore I advise you to take up the study of the holy Scriptures as a solace in this pilgrimage, since if you are assiduous in reading them, you will easily despise the world with all its vanities. For nothing so raises the mind from vain solicitude to heavenly things, nothing so calms the fires of the flesh, as diligence in sacred reading. Finally, study is especially fitting to your office, as Malachi says: The lips of the priest keep knowledge, and they will seek the law from his mouth, because he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts. For, as we said a little before, it is necessary for the priest of Christ to be learned in the divine law, both that he may know and that he may have a source from which to bring forth his sermon. For he who has undertaken to rule souls, for whom he is to render account to God the supreme judge, must necessarily read and understand many things. Indeed, as that great Gregory Nazianzen said, and after him the Roman pope: The art of arts"},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-10","html_id":"p-en-0012-0001","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0012:p-0001","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":12,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0012","sequence":1,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-12","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0012-0001"},"text":"... of arts is the governance of souls. But one who has learned nothing in the holy Scriptures, what will he teach others? Or what benefit will a priest be able to bring to his hearers in preaching, if he does not know the Scriptures? Woe now to our times, in which, as is the people, so is the priest. Our priests cast aside the study of the Scriptures, neglect learning, and in place of books of Scripture they rear birds and dogs. Let the bishops see to it, who promote such idiots and ignorant men to the dignity of the priesthood, who entrust the care of Christ’s sheep to unskilled shepherds. Withdraw from the company of those who cast aside knowledge, who neglect the reading of the Scriptures, who despise study. They savor nothing but the worldly, love nothing but vanity, understand nothing unless it is carnal. They will quickly overthrow you if you often pass into their gathering."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-10","html_id":"p-en-0012-0002","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0012:p-0002","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":12,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0012","sequence":2,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-12","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0012-0002"},"text":"They sit in ambush, with drinkers in taverns; they devote themselves to games and feasts. There is no fear of God before their eyes. They grow angry if anyone begins to speak of the Scriptures in their presence; they disdain to hear a reading, but turn instead to tales. What have you to do with them? Are not priests asses in their manner of life? They understand absolutely nothing of the Scriptures; they despise learning. They do not know how to write or speak the Roman language; they have scarcely learned to explain the Gospels in the vernacular. How many errors, tales, and heresies they proclaim to the people in the Church by preaching, who could believe unless he had experienced it? In place of books they get children for themselves; in place of study they love concubines. These are the blind and leaders of the blind, who do not instruct the people of God in righteousness, but rather lead them astray. O how many poor Christians live in the countryside who, because of the ignorance of their priests, do not know what befits a Christian."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-10","html_id":"p-en-0012-0003","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0012:p-0003","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":12,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0012","sequence":3,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-12","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0012-0003"},"text":"Amid these things there is no one who takes notice, no one who grieves over the danger to souls, no one who applies a remedy. All seek the things that are earthly, all seek their own interests, all run after profits. But what are these matters to us? Each one stands or falls before his own Lord. And although it does not belong to me to correct these things, nevertheless I cannot help grieving, seeing every evil in the Church proceed from the ignorance of priests. For who would not grieve that those who have been appointed to instruct others do not know the commandments? See, no knowledge is sought in the ordaining of priests; those who are not called are allowed to approach; the life of the man to be ordained is never examined, as it ought first of all to have been. For this reason the Christian people is led away captive with the cords of sins; the harmony of brotherly love is violated. Our priests overflow with worldly desires; they do not dare to correct the vicious, because they know that they themselves have sinned in greater matters. For there are few who now shine in the Church by holy morals, few who duly instruct the flock entrusted to them by word and example. Nor is it strange if lesser men are free from the study of the Scriptures, when among the prelates you find few who adhere to the examples of the ancients. For very often those who are not more learned are chosen. They have either no codices of Scripture or few, since they pursue knowledge with hatred. Nothing so diminishes ecclesiastical dignity and renders it contemptible as the ignorance of prelates. When once bishops, abbots, and the other prelate priests turned their minds to the Scriptures, access was not so easy for crimes and sins."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-10","html_id":"p-en-0012-0004","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0012:p-0004","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":12,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0012","sequence":4,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-12","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0012-0004"},"text":"For love and knowledge of the Scriptures teach one to despise the world, to flee vices, and to love the most holy virtues. As long as the Israelite people remained in the law of the Lord, no power of the enemy prevailed against them. But after it cast aside knowledge of the law, it was subjected to many adversities. For Scripture says: Because they did not have wisdom, they perished through their own folly. Today also priests and rectors of churches are in great number, but few of them attend to knowledge of the law and Scripture. And because, as the Lord speaks through the Prophet, the priests have cast aside knowledge of the law, for that reason they have been made contemptible among the people. They do indeed cry to the Lord in tribulation, but he does not hear them, because whoever turns his ears away so as not to hear the law, his prayer will be abominable."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":["trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0013:p-0001:annotation-001"],"chapter_id":"ch-10","html_id":"p-en-0013-0001","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0013:p-0001","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":13,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0013","sequence":1,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-13","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0013-0001"},"text":"[unclear]. Therefore priests should not wonder that laymen despise them, since they themselves spurn the commandments of Christ. But I greatly fear that, before long, more serious things will happen against the clergy. But enough of these matters. You, however, consider not what others are doing, but what must be done by you. For many are called to the priesthood in the Church of God, but few are chosen. Therefore we must take the greatest care that we who are admitted into the Lord’s portion may also be chosen. What does it profit to exercise the priesthood here for a very short time, if one should happen to be separated from the sight of God? Therefore nothing is better than to fix one’s desire on heavenly things, to persist in the study of sacred reading, to despise present things for the love of God, and to think on the things to come. Hence Peter says in the Aurora: Nothing is better for man than if, by reading divine things, he fixes his mind there whence life comes to him. And so continual study must be devoted to the reading of the Scriptures, because reading nourishes the mind and supplies fuel for the virtues."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":["trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0013:p-0002:annotation-001"],"chapter_id":"ch-10","html_id":"p-en-0013-0002","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0013:p-0002","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":13,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0013","sequence":2,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-13","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0013-0002"},"text":"Therefore, so that you may not lose the value of time, read the sacred Scriptures, write books, devote yourself to devout prayers, and at the proper times labor also with your hands. Do not blush to learn what you do not know, because then you will be able usefully to instruct others, if you always seek to be informed by those more learned. Do not be ashamed to take on the name of disciple, if you desire to attain the honor of mastership. For the Holy Spirit, who teaches man knowledge, is a lover of humility. When you sit at table to take food, remember that first the sacred letters must resound, so that [unclear] may not be defrauded. For in the Council of Toledo it is read thus: Out of reverence for God, the universal synod established this for priests, that since idle tales are often accustomed to be introduced at tables, in every priestly banquet a reading of the divine Scriptures should be mingled in. For by this both souls are built up toward the good, and tales are not necessarily forbidden. For the word of God is food of the spirit, because man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God. The ancient fathers and priests bestowed the greatest diligence on the holy Scriptures, so that they might both healthfully feed the mind and provide useful things for the instruction of posterity. Let us adhere to their footsteps, that we may deserve to be found worthy ministers before God."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-10","html_id":"p-en-0013-0003","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0013:p-0003","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":13,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0013","sequence":3,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-13","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0013-0003"},"text":"On Avarice and Cupidity, Which Must Be Fled. Chapter Five."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-10","html_id":"p-en-0013-0004","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0013:p-0004","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":13,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0013","sequence":4,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-13","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0013-0004"},"text":"Although at the beginning of our discourse we argued against avarice and cupidity, nevertheless we are led by a certain reason to speak again in this place about this very matter. For action is never taken sufficiently against this vice unless it is utterly rooted out. But our Savior, knowing how difficult it is for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God, said to those following him: Unless someone has renounced all that he possesses, he cannot be my disciple. Hence the Psalmist admonishes us, saying: If riches abound, do not set your heart upon them. And the Apostle says: Having food and clothing, let us be content with these. What more do we seek, who are ministers of God? Cupidity is disgraceful in a priest of God, avarice is disgraceful, and the continual hunger for gold is damnable. You, therefore, most beloved brother, if you desire to live in freedom of spirit, do not seek perishable monies; do not love riches. Cast your thought upon the Lord, and he himself will nourish you, he himself will guard you. Nor do I want you utterly to cast aside domestic providence, but not to go beyond measure through avarice. Cupidity is the root of all evils, and it does not allow a man to live for God in freedom of spirit, but always torments the mind with bitter cares, and does not permit him to think of anything other than riches. Moderation, however, is the safest thing, which is neither oppressed by poverty nor lifted up into pride by abundance."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":["trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0013:p-0005:annotation-001"],"chapter_id":"ch-10","html_id":"p-en-0013-0005","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0013:p-0005","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":13,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0013","sequence":5,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-13","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0013-0005"},"text":"We see among the priests of God worshipers of idols, who are always watchful in gathering monies, who devote themselves to avarice, who think nothing or little of eternal life. They live as though they had been born for gain; they cast far away piety toward the poor; they desire nothing other than to seek and find gold. You would see among them certain wretched, rich misers, who have the greatest supply and abundance of temporal things, but lack the capacity to use what they have acquired. All the days in which they dwell on earth they live miserably; they do not presume to eat and drink according to the necessity of the body; they always desire to add something to the heap of money. They are watchful for profits; they have absolutely no care for the salvation of souls. They grieve more over a lost denarius than if ten souls from those committed to them should perish. But it is no wonder if he neglects another’s soul who condemns his own. For whoever [unclear] his own heart"},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-10","html_id":"p-en-0014-0001","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0014:p-0001","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":14,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0014","sequence":1,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-14","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0014-0001"},"text":"has once submitted his own [self] to the desire of avarice, he will never, or rarely, be free. He is always feverish for greater profits of money; he always pants for an increase of gold; and the desire to possess grows in proportion as his cash happens to have grown. Thereafter one benefice, however fat, is not enough; the avaricious priest runs about even to obtain others, and strives, by right and wrong, to acquire what he improperly covets. Meanwhile he runs to the Apostolic See, states the grounds of his petition, which, if it is examined according to the truth, is at once found false. Then one man obtains many prebends, hires out the care of the sheep to mercenaries, receives wool and milk from the sheep, but scorns to feed the flock. “Woe,” says the Prophet, “to the shepherds who feed themselves.” They think themselves free from fault who, by dispensation of the Supreme Pontiff, hold many benefices; but they do not weigh what is required for that obtaining."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-10","html_id":"p-en-0014-0002","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0014:p-0002","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":14,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0014","sequence":2,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-14","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0014-0002"},"text":"But you, stand firm, and do not transgress the ancient bounds which your fathers set, but set a limit to desire, lest you fall into sin. I wish you to be content with one benefice, which suffices you according to the modest measure of your state, lest, if you accept several without just necessity, you be judged more severely for it before God. Do not take as an example the multitude of those acting otherwise; do not walk on the broad road of sinners, if you wish to arrive at life. He who lives by the altar is worthy to receive support; but he who neglects to feed the sheep, with what rashness does he demand wool and milk from them? Ecclesiastical benefices were instituted for the support of those who serve them, not for their avarice. But he who flees the burden of solicitude does not receive the profit of the milk without fault. Therefore, if you refuse to feed Christ’s sheep, by no means seek wool or milk from them. For the sheep were not appointed for the shepherd, but the shepherd for the sheep. Nor is the care of souls to be sought so that food may be had; rather, food is to be sought so that due care may be applied to the sheep. But now the order is perverted by many, who seek prelacies and benefices for this reason, that they may have money in the chest, not that they may feed souls for the love of God."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-10","html_id":"p-en-0014-0003","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0014:p-0003","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":14,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0014","sequence":3,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-14","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0014-0003"},"text":"O idol shepherd, how miserably you deceive yourself. You take care only that you may eat, though you ought to have eaten so that you might be able to care for souls. Cupidity is the root of all evils, the mother of transgression, the teacher of doing harm, the charioteer of malice, the inventor of deceit, the promoter of falsehood. It commits sacrileges and thefts. It carries out plunders and burnings; it wages wars and murders. Finally, cupidity alone is what taught men to buy and sell simoniacally; it seeks and receives unjustly, trades unjustly, relies on deceits, and is fostered by falsehood and perjury. It is this that breaks faith, dissolves agreement, corrupts testimony, and violates oath. Cupidity also extinguishes charity between God and man, interrupts brotherly love, disturbs concord, makes counsel foolish, perverts the judgment of equity, destroys unity. Therefore, if you desire to show yourself a worthy minister of God, tear this root of all evils out of your heart as quickly as possible."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-10","html_id":"p-en-0014-0004","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0014:p-0004","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":14,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0014","sequence":4,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-14","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0014-0004"},"text":"Brief is every possession of earthly riches; brief is the action of mortal life; daily pressing on is the procession of the human race toward death. Why, then, do you delay, for the love of God, to despise what, overtaken by death, you will shortly be forced to leave behind, even unwillingly? For we have here no abiding city, but we seek one to come. Where your treasure is, there also will your heart be. Do not seek the perishable riches of the world; do not bind your heart with the chains of avarice. For it befits the priest of Christ to be a gentle and merciful disciple, who does not covet the things of others, but distributes his own generously among the poor."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-10","html_id":"p-en-0014-0005","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0014:p-0005","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":14,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0014","sequence":5,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-14","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0014-0005"},"text":"On the Honorable External Conduct of Priests. Chapter Six."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-10","html_id":"p-en-0014-0006","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0014:p-0006","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":14,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0014","sequence":6,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-14","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0014-0006"},"text":"Consider now what kind of conduct you ought to establish for yourself, and what kind of life you ought to live, so that you may be able to please almighty God, whose minister you are, with your whole heart. But as regards internal conduct, it is necessary that you shine clean and pure in conscience, you who minister before the Lord. For the Prophet of the Lord says to the priests: “Be sanctified, you who carry the vessels of the Lord.” And the Lord says: “Wash yourselves, be clean; remove the evil of your thoughts from before my eyes; cease to act perversely; learn to do good,” says the almighty Lord. As much"},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-15","html_id":"p-en-0015-0001","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0015:p-0001","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":15,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0015","sequence":1,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-15","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0015-0001"},"text":"But as regards the outward man, the Apostle, instructing a bishop, says: A bishop must be irreproachable, sober, chaste, kindly, adorned in conduct, hospitable, teachable."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-15","html_id":"p-en-0015-0002","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0015:p-0002","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":15,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0015","sequence":2,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-15","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0015-0002"},"text":"Whatever is enjoined upon a bishop in this passage is also commanded to the other prelates and priests. And first, when he says that he must be irreproachable, he declares him free from all vices and from the slanders of the people. For the life of a priest is set before the people as an example, and is compared to a lamp, just as light shines in the darkness. For the Lord says in the Gospel: Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your Father who is in heaven. Then, moreover, the priest walks worthily before God when he daily adorns his life with good and holy works and, for the love of Christ, mortifies his members that are upon the earth. For he is the servant of the Lord, and this above all is required of him: that in words and deeds he carry out the will of God. But no one fulfills the will of God except he who, having driven out the vices, makes his heart a dwelling-place of the virtues. Beware lest you stain the Church, the bride of Christ, through the foulness of your life; beware lest by an evil example you scandalize anyone, because however many people you lead into sin by your fault, for that many you will be tormented in punishment. Be seen rarely in public; accustom yourself to remain at home, to devote yourself to readings. Be calm in mind and body; do not run about through the streets and the houses of neighbors; do not take part in the tales of peasants. For presence diminishes reputation, and familiarity with the priest breeds contempt among the people."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-15","html_id":"p-en-0015-0003","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0015:p-0003","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":15,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0015","sequence":3,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-15","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0015-0003"},"text":"But rare going out in public will display for you among the common people a great reverence of maturity. Live in such a way that many may be edified by your example. In the midst of elders speak little, because talkativeness is often reproved where silence is praised. Indeed, among old men it is fitting for a young man to listen, not to speak. Do not desire to seem wise in the company of priests, lest before them you be confounded as foolish. Do not be wordy and arrogant; when questioned, answer with humility and goodwill; and do not, in the manner of wranglers, be clamorous in your voice when you speak. Do not love unrestrained laughter, and always and everywhere keep yourself from every dishonorable levity. Avoid useless conversations and empty words, knowing that for every idle word that you have spoken you will have to render an account to God. If your speech is moderate and sparing, let every lie be far away, and let no oath be taken in vain. Do not enter taverns with peasants, because that is not permitted to your honorability. For it is very unfitting that he who ought to rebuke sinners should wish, by his own presence, to show himself a patron of sins. For entry into taverns is forbidden to priests by the holy fathers, unless they are on a journey. It is shameful for a priest of God to enter a tavern with peasants, and for a mouth consecrated to God to be befouled with impure speech. The discourse of one who preaches is easily despised if it is poured out familiarly among peasants. From the habit of familiarity they will begin to despise you and to regard you as one of their own. For no reverence is paid to superiors if their life is narrowed among their subjects. One who presides must surpass all by a certain reverence of maturity, and wisely decline excessive familiarity with his subjects. Indeed the preeminence of authority is broken when it is indiscreetly mingled with the actions of those subject to it. Speak ill of no one, nor take up a scandal against anyone. It is disgraceful for a priest to pollute with detraction his tongue, which, placed at the altar, is to pray for all. Nor should you lend an ear to detractions, because the detractor and the willing listener are worthy of equal condemnation. For the one carries the devil on his tongue, the other in his ear. Let one who is of this sort learn not to detract readily, when he sees that you listen unwillingly. Do not be hasty in tongue, and do not stand in the company of detractors, because they are hateful to almighty God. Hedge your ears with thorns, lest you hear the words of detractors. Let no lie proceed from your mouth; let no foul speech proceed from you, but be the guardian of your tongue, lest you offend"},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":["trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0016:p-0001:annotation-001"],"chapter_id":"ch-15","html_id":"p-en-0016-0001","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0016:p-0001","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":16,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0016","sequence":1,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-16","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0016-0001"},"text":"[unclear] in speech. Do not be slothful and sluggish, nor given over to the sleep of idleness, but continually kindled in the fervor of the Holy Spirit. Do not neglect frugal hospitality; assist poor strangers mercifully with what diligence you can, knowing that this is proper to a priest: to have care for the needy. Have gold not so that you may keep it, but so that you may spend it in alms for the poor. Let the bellies of the hungry poor praise you, not the banquets of belching rich men. Let your table be with the poor and needy, because in such persons Christ is received and the heavenly court is honored. Avoid the banquets of proud rich men, especially of the powerful, in which nothing is done concerning the salvation of souls and nothing at all is discussed concerning spiritual conduct. Let your clothing be respectable, not costly. In giving alms do not seek glory from men, but expect praise and reward from God alone."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-15","html_id":"p-en-0016-0002","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0016:p-0002","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":16,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0016","sequence":2,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-16","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0016-0002"},"text":"Be a father of the poor and protector of orphans. Let no poor man depart from you without consolation. Do not be a striker or quarrelsome among the people; injure no one wrongfully, but do good to all, so far as you are able, even to enemies. Never [flatter?] sinners, but rebuke them as one who has obtained authority from God. Do not be a striker of the consciences of the people entrusted to you, nor utter the word of God indiscreetly, but with the moderation of piety. Be merciful to penitents, and do not break the bruised reed, knowing that you have undertaken the care of the weak, not of the strong. For it is better to send the penitent with kindness to purgatory than, by the austerity of the confessor, to consign him in despair to hell. Do not neglect to pray your canonical hours with reverence and devotion at the times appointed by the Church. Likewise, do not omit to read the Hours of Blessed Mary ever Virgin, the vigils of the dead, with the other things due according to the priestly order. Have care for your household in the fear of God: if you have a family, persuade them by word and example to observe modesty and honorable conduct. Indeed, it damages the reputation of a priest among the people when the people speak ill of his household. Let your speech be strengthened by the testimony of the Scriptures, because whatever is taught apart from the holy Scriptures is despised with the same ease with which it is proved. I do not want you to imitate those who preach in the Church without learning, who frequently cite fables and phantoms of dreams, and are ignorant of the mysteries of the divine Scriptures. Ranting and garrulous priests, speaking without reason, do not edify the people, but labor to draw them into admiration of themselves by empty speeches and Aesopian fables. For it is a foolish and damnable abuse, with the Scriptures and the Gospel set aside, to teach the Christian people the fables of Aesop and the invented deeds of the Romans. And do not wonder if the unlearned people hear these things more willingly than the Scriptures, since you read that the Apostle foretold this. “There will be a time,” he says, “when they will not endure sound teaching, but according to their own desires they will heap up teachers for themselves, itching in their ears; and they will indeed turn their hearing away from the truth, and will be turned to fables.”"},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":["trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0016:p-0003:annotation-001"],"chapter_id":"ch-15","html_id":"p-en-0016-0003","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0016:p-0003","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":16,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0016","sequence":3,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-16","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0016-0003"},"text":"Hence Jerome says: To roll out words and, by speed of speaking, to create admiration for oneself among the ignorant crowd is the mark of unlearned men. A worn-out brow often interprets what it does not know, and when it has [unclear] its own things with others, it also claims for itself knowledge which it does not have. Nothing is so easy as to deceive the base and unlearned little crowd by fluency of tongue; whatever it does not understand, it admires the more. But you, speak the things that befit sound teaching, and do not seek the applause of the unskilled if you wish to find a place among the learned. Do not imprudently desire the care of souls, unless you have first learned, in accordance with ecclesiastical sanction, to govern yourself and others justly. For the office of teaching the people is subject to many dangers and is troubled by daily anxieties. For the ruler of souls must be without reproach, as a steward of God, not angry, not greedy for shameful gain, sober, just, kindly, embracing the faithful word which is according to doctrine, so that he may be able both to exhort in sound teaching and to refute those who contradict. It is necessary that he who is ruler"},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-15","html_id":"p-en-0017-0001","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0017:p-0001","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":17,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0017","sequence":1,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-17","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0017-0001"},"text":"he who has been appointed ruler of souls must teach no less by example than by speech. Indeed, even a robber can accuse avarice, but no one can amend it except one who does what he teaches. He is a delicate teacher who debates fasting with a full belly. Therefore life must be sought before doctrine, because one teaches more fully by deed than by speech. For the most excellent kind of teaching is the demonstration of example. And indeed the Lord Jesus first acted, afterward taught. For in teaching he uses the greatest authority whose speech is confirmed by the attestation of his work. The word of a ruler is easily carried out by subjects if it is supported by uprightness of conduct. But he who teaches well and lives badly destroys himself by the sentence of his own mouth, and does not turn his subjects away from bad instruction."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-15","html_id":"p-en-0017-0002","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0017:p-0002","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":17,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0017","sequence":2,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-17","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0017-0002"},"text":"At the same time consider how dangerous the care of souls is, especially in these times, when iniquity abounds everywhere and the charity of many has grown cold. For the days are evil, and men are slow to justice, and the whole world is set in wickedness, and faith is rare on earth. Amid these things the word of God is despised by the people, the discipline of the Christian religion is neglected, priestly authority is scorned. Lay life, liable to many sins and crimes, neglects the remedies of penance, gives itself to deceits and frauds, and scorns the admonitions of priests. And unless the ruler of souls diligently announces to the people committed to him their crimes and the punishments owed to sinners, before God he too will be guilty of their blood. And after these things God will bring all things into judgment, where the shepherd of souls is compelled to render account for each one; if he has been negligent in this world, he is condemned more heavily. Therefore it is safer humbly to flee the care and rule of souls than arrogantly to usurp it."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-15","html_id":"p-en-0017-0003","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0017:p-0003","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":17,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0017","sequence":3,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-17","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0017-0003"},"text":"For if each person scarcely suffices to render account of his own life in that dreadful judgment, how will he answer for so many thousands committed to him? O how well he lives who lives for himself. It seems good and pleasant among men for a bishop, abbot, pastor, or any prelate to live in this age; but who will be able to think how terrible is the end of the negligent man? For judgment most severe will be made upon those who preside, and the powerful will powerfully suffer torments. He passes well who lives simply, to whom no earthly honor is entrusted. For pastoral care is never without danger so long as one lives in this world. The greatest danger of all is when, the soul separated from the body by death, the earthly shepherd must be presented before the supreme Shepherd, God, to render account. Here now the moment of final condemnation is imminent, when an account of badly administered stewardship is demanded, and the blood of many sheep is required from the hand of one shepherd. What then will the unskilled shepherd be able to answer to the charges, he who was negligent in the care of the sheep? He must fall silent, because he has nothing to answer."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-15","html_id":"p-en-0017-0004","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0017:p-0004","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":17,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0017","sequence":4,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-17","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0017-0004"},"text":"Therefore, brother, if you consider yourself fit for the care of souls, if you are preparing to rule the church of Mernice, know that you are to be brought into judgment for these things, and that according to the merit of your life you will receive glory or torment. But believe me: he dies secure who, putting aside care for others, lives for himself alone in the fear of God. For to whom much is entrusted, much also will be required of him. The priest, especially one having the care of souls, is God’s herald, so that he may announce to the people the will of the Almighty, and may heal those who sin against the law of the Lord by words of rebuke. Therefore he must be learned and most steadfast, lest either through ignorance he fail, or through inconstancy he fear the hatred of the perverse. For it is shameful, because of fear of the people, to keep silent the words of God. The priest must use a little wine, lest, if he gives himself to drinking-bouts, he become a reproach among the people. For the Apostle condemns drunken priests, and the old law forbids them access to the altar. In the Council of Agde too it is read thus: Before all things drunkenness is to be avoided by clerics, since it is the tinder and nurse of all vices. Therefore anyone who is proven to have been drunk, as his order permits, is either to be removed from communion for the space of thirty days, or subjected to corporal punishment. For wine is a luxurious thing, and drunkenness is insulting; everyone who is mixed up with these—"},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-15","html_id":"p-en-0018-0001","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0018:p-0001","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":18,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0018","sequence":1,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-18","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0018-0001"},"text":"in these matters, he will not be wise. He who burns without wine with the heat of youth, and is inflamed by the warmth of the blood, if he is strong in body, should flee wine as poison, lest, suffocated by a manifold fire, he fall into the mire of lust. A stomach heated with wine stirs up lust, dulls perception, and weakens the head and the whole body. It is also said in a proverb: A fat belly begets a thin understanding."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-15","html_id":"p-en-0018-0002","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0018:p-0002","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":18,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0018","sequence":2,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-18","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0018-0002"},"text":"Therefore, when you are invited and come to banquets of priests, do not forget clerical propriety, but be modest; beware lest either your tongue or your ears itch, that is, lest you either disparage others yourself or lend a hearing to those who disparage them. Know that all the things you say about others must be turned back upon yourself; perhaps you will be reproved in the very same matters that you were censuring in others. But perhaps you will say: I cannot do wrong to those who report it, because whoever plans to stop the mouths of everyone strives in vain; what, then, is another person's disparagement to me? Surely I cannot prevent people from speaking? But, as we said above, so present yourself before the disparager that he may learn to disparage no one, when he sees that you do not willingly listen to what he says. Do not associate with disparagers, says Solomon, because their destruction will come suddenly; and who knows the ruin of each? Namely, both of him who disparages and of him who lends his ear to the disparager. Be prudent in conduct, discreet in silence and taciturnity. Be diligent in examining the mysteries of the Scriptures, and if any matter of doubt occurs to you as you read, know that it must be referred to the interpretations of the elders. Nearby you have the school of the very ancient city of Trier, in which there is an abundance of learned men, to whom you will be able to have recourse in the uncertainty of questions. Let gold not be dearer to you than knowledge, because the fruit of wisdom is eternal, while the use of riches is brief and momentary. Let there be no one who prevents salutary study, not mother, not kinsman, not sister: do the work of an evangelist, learn what you are to teach, lest you prove to be an idol shepherd. You are one and have no second; for whom, then, would you heap up riches? Live temperately; marriages strip the mind of virtues and render the purse empty of coins. Buy for yourself, from the alms offered, codices of divine Scripture; taught by assiduous reading of them, you may worthily instruct the people committed to you and raise yourself by contemplation to heavenly things. Love the knowledge of the Scriptures, and it will exalt you before God and men. Do not consent to the pleasures of the flesh, restrain the impulse of fury, and never forget death."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-15","html_id":"p-en-0018-0003","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0018:p-0003","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":18,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0018","sequence":3,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-18","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0018-0003"},"text":"What Sort of Person a Priest Ought to Be in His Inner Conduct"},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-15","html_id":"p-en-0018-0004","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0018:p-0004","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":18,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0018","sequence":4,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-18","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0018-0004"},"text":"Chapter Seven"},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":["trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0018:p-0005:annotation-001"],"chapter_id":"ch-15","html_id":"p-en-0018-0005","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0018:p-0005","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":18,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0018","sequence":5,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-18","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0018-0005"},"text":"Since, however, it is not enough for a minister of Christ to lead an honorable life before men, unless he strives to appear before God clean from every crime, I exhort you to direct your heart in the fear of the Almighty and never admit any thoughts against God. For it is necessary [unclear]"},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-15","html_id":"p-en-0018-0006","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0018:p-0006","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":18,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0018","sequence":6,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-18","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0018-0006"},"text":"for a priest of God to be holy in mind and body, and clean in thought. Hence the Lord says: Be holy, for I am holy, the Lord your God, who sanctify you. And Peter the arch-apostle says: You are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people of acquisition, that you may proclaim the virtues of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. Let charity hold first place in your heart, for it is the fullness of the law and the completion of the prophets. For the greatest of all virtues is charity, which consists in love of God and neighbor. God must be loved for his own sake with the whole heart, and one's neighbor for God's sake. But no one truly loves God if he hates his neighbor in the faith. For Christ is God and man. Therefore he does not love the whole Christ who hates man. No good work"},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-19","html_id":"p-en-0019-0001","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0019:p-0001","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":19,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0019","sequence":1,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-19","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0019-0001"},"text":"God accepts [nothing] as good except what the flame of charity has kindled on the altar of the heart; for charity holds the primacy among all the virtues. Humility follows it, which is called the guardian of the virtues. Yet such is the eminence of this virtue that every other virtue quickly perishes unless it is strengthened by the foundation of humility. For the holy Pope Gregory says: “He who gathers virtues without humility carries dust into the wind. For by the very thing from which he is seen to carry something, he is the more grievously blinded.” Therefore the greatest adornment of a priest is charity, and the most precious pearl in his garment is humility. You too, brother, show forth these twin virtues in yourself, and you will be a fruitful preacher in the Church of God. Whatever you say, you will easily persuade your hearers, if you have charity in your heart and diligently show it in deed."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":["trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0019:p-0002:annotation-001","trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0019:p-0002:annotation-002"],"chapter_id":"ch-19","html_id":"p-en-0019-0002","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0019:p-0002","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":19,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0019","sequence":2,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-19","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0019-0002"},"text":"Let cursed ambition have no place in your heart; it so blinds the mind which it has once invaded that it brings forgetfulness of God and of one’s own salvation. Be a Christian lover of men and an enemy of vices. Keep the commandments of God, and do not neglect ecclesiastical sanctions. Honor all men for God’s sake; never consider anyone worthy of contempt. What you do not wish to be done to you, do not do to another. Let not the sun go down upon your anger. Flee the flatteries of the rich; never at any time stroke sinners. Deny yourself to your desires, so that you may become a disciple of Christ. Chastise your body, bringing it into servitude according to the Apostle; despise delicacies; love chaste fasting. Be compassionate toward the poor: feed the hungry, clothe the naked, visit the sick, free the captive, console the sorrowful, bury the dead. Do not love the world; do not seek riches; do not run after vanity. For no one serving as a soldier for God entangles himself in secular affairs. Do injury to no one, but learn patiently to bear injury inflicted on you, after the example of your Lord, who, hanging on the cross, prayed for his persecutors, that they might not perish. Have peace with all men, but concord and unanimity only with the devout. Do not be proud and arrogant, not given to wine and much eating, not a backbiter nor one who rashly judges anyone. Guard your actions at every hour, and let the memory of things to come always dwell in your thought. For Scripture says: “Son, remember your last things, and you will not sin forever.” Therefore always think that you are going to die; fear the day of judgment; dread the torments of hell. If you do these things, you will easily overcome all temptations of the flesh. Despise the pleasures of the world, so that you may be able to enter rejoicing into the joys of heavenly happiness. Do not deceive your soul: no one can rejoice here with the world and afterward reign with Christ. For through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God. Therefore, despising present things, let us hasten with every desire toward eternal joys. Guard your heart with every watchfulness, because life proceeds from it. If you have been overtaken by some fault, do not delay in seeking the remedies of penitence and cleansing yourself in confession through true contrition. Strive to enter into life by the narrow way, that is, not to fulfill the desires of the flesh, to hate the world, to live by the spirit. For serving God [unclear] against victory to rest, do not cease from the battle, because no one will be crowned unless he is victorious. But in this life there is no certain victory, but continual battle. He who has persevered to the end will be saved. A man will be proved at his end. The life of man upon earth is warfare. For you are a soldier of the highest King; it is not permitted you to abandon his contest. A good soldier follows his king wherever he goes. Where then is your King? In heaven. Why do you not follow him? What are you doing on earth, if you are a soldier of the heavenly King above? Why do you not follow your Lord? For he says: “If anyone ministers to me, let him follow me; and where I am, there also my minister shall be.” Let him follow, he says, not with steps of the feet, but with the paces of affections. The Apostle also says: “No one serving as a soldier for God entangles himself in secular affairs, that he may please the one to whom he has proved himself.” Therefore, just as those who serve an earthly king obey all his commands and, wherever they are sent, are ready and prompt, and no [unclear] of wife or"},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":["trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0020:p-0001:annotation-001"],"chapter_id":"ch-19","html_id":"p-en-0020-0001","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0020:p-0001","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":20,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0020","sequence":1,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-20","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0020-0001"},"text":"excusing themselves on the ground of children, so the soldier of Christ must obey his commands in all things, and in absolutely nothing excuse himself. You, therefore, who await the unfading crown of victory, labor like a good soldier of Jesus Christ; let no pleasure of the flesh touch your mind with its enticement. For nothing is happier than the soldier of Christ, to whom the kingdoms of heaven are promised; nothing more laborious, since daily he is in danger of his life; nothing stronger, which is overcome by the flesh. Let no house call you away, let no kinship hinder you, let no flesh constrain you. I want you to be without anxiety, so that you may freely think on the things that are God’s. Naked and unencumbered, fly to heaven, for naked your mother bore you, and naked the earth will receive you. Love that which [unclear]; seek that by which you may rejoice happily forever. Live so that you do not fear to die. A good conscience does not fear death, because it knows that through death it will come to the joys of the eternal heavenly homeland. You now have, most beloved brother, what you asked from me; you have some sort of rule of good conduct, to which you may conform yourself; you have a standard of holy exhortation, to which you may diligently have recourse. I have done what I could. For the rest, live according to the Gospel and the constitutions of the holy fathers, in which the whole form of Christian perfection is seen. Farewell, mindful of us."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-19","html_id":"p-en-0020-0002","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0020:p-0002","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":20,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0020","sequence":2,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-20","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0020-0002"},"text":"From Spanheim, on the Kalends of April, in the year 1486."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-19","html_id":"p-en-0020-0003","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0020:p-0003","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":20,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0020","sequence":3,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-20","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0020-0003"},"text":"Poem to the Clergy, exhorting them to purity of life."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-19","html_id":"p-en-0020-0004","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0020:p-0004","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":20,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0020","sequence":4,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-20","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0020-0004"},"text":"1 Corinthians, chapter 3."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-19","html_id":"p-en-0020-0005","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0020:p-0005","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":20,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0020","sequence":5,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-20","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0020-0005"},"text":"Do you not know that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? But if anyone violates the temple of God, God will destroy him."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-19","html_id":"p-en-0020-0006","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0020:p-0006","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":20,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0020","sequence":6,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-20","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0020-0006"},"text":"1 Corinthians, chapter 6."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-19","html_id":"p-en-0020-0007","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0020:p-0007","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":20,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0020","sequence":7,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-20","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0020-0007"},"text":"Taking the members of Christ, then, shall I make them the members of a prostitute? God forbid."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-19","html_id":"p-en-0020-0008","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0020:p-0008","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":20,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0020","sequence":8,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-20","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0020-0008"},"text":"Hear, sacred house of Melchizedek, order of priests, clergy sacred to God, company of the key-bearer of the starry pole. God has established you like a great radiance, and has given you to the peoples as a shining globe: that, irradiating the world with a bright lamp, you may dispel the darkness of the lands with light; that, pure, you may sacrifice to the terrible God, and give the sacraments with reverence to the nations purchased by crimson blood. You hold the seat of the Lord, you hold his throne, so that you may express the light of faith, which cannot deceive, and the law, in speech and conduct: as the sun makes the year fruitful with its rays, so may you make the world fertile with light. You hold exalted the royal glory of magnificent Jove, so that you may remember, by fruitful governance, to feed the nations, and bravely rescue those whom the adamantine bonds of the tempter hold entangled. God has anointed you with sacrificial oil, rendering you bright with every kind of gift. Since, therefore, you shine with manifold good, if perhaps you displease others, you do not displease me. But I would have you carefully warned, that you look into yourself and ponder well how much many things defile the sacred seat of the pontiffs and of the heavenly ones, and especially the foul filth of lusts. How displeasing it is, and how hateful, to the holy lover of virginal bloom, he cannot fail to know who unrolls the sacred Bible with vigilant care. Now therefore attend to my sad song. Since the purity of the flesh and the brightness of the mind, unstained, and chaste joys, ought to belong to the high servants of the prince and of God, why do I everywhere see so many little prostitutes now ruling over the clergy and priests? Why do I see men otherwise learned and celebrated, illustrious in riches and wisdom, so utterly losing their senses that they do everything at the whim of whores, and do not refuse to be ruled by a vile little woman? O royal seat of the Lord, you cherish very many in your gentle bosom, as a mother does, who allow themselves to be drawn by feminine enticements, like brute animals, to whatever impiety, disgrace, or crime. How vile a snare, how evil a servitude, when a wise man allows himself to be ruled by women’s counsels, at the whim of a harlot; and, shamefully forgetful of God and of himself, closes the way to fruitful admonitions. How blind, foolish, and miserable are all those who, bound in heart by tenacious snares, raise at home, with no small effort and expense, a pestilential serpent, indeed a perpetual evil more harmful than death. Unhappy clergy, open your eyes, so that at last you may see how grave a crime it is if you defile the temples of your flesh, consecrated to God, with the meretricious filth of the flesh, or if the mind burns with illicit fires. At least let some shame rebuke you, initiates"},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-19","html_id":"p-en-0021-0001","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0021:p-0001","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":21,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0021","sequence":1,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-21","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0021-0001"},"text":"O initiates of the illustrious heavenly prince, let it not hereafter please you to submit your free neck to the services, command, and yoke of both a vile maidservant and a little prostitute."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-19","html_id":"p-en-0021-0002","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0021:p-0002","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":21,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0021","sequence":2,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-21","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0021-0002"},"text":"If you count for nothing the laws of men, judgments, and threats, if finally you esteem reputation as worthless, let at least fear of perpetual fire draw you away from the foul fever of ancient lust."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-19","html_id":"p-en-0021-0003","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0021:p-0003","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":21,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0021","sequence":3,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-21","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0021-0003"},"text":"“If anyone,” cries the Apostle, “has violated the temple of the Lord by forbidden intercourse,” if he has befouled the temples of his own flesh with the stains of prostitutes, the Lord God will destroy this sacrilegious man with grievous destruction."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-19","html_id":"p-en-0021-0004","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0021:p-0004","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":21,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0021","sequence":4,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-21","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0021-0004"},"text":"Whom do the terrible threats not move, which the sacred volumes everywhere resound against the lovers of foul flesh? Or who would not call them foolish and stupid? Why, wretched man, do you weave snares for yourself, while you blindly love the present danger and do not fear the stern judgment of God?"},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-19","html_id":"p-en-0021-0005","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0021:p-0005","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":21,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0021","sequence":5,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-21","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0021-0005"},"text":"Hardly ever will you set a limit to your crimes unless you flee far from the serpent’s breath. Who carries coals in his tunic and keeps it whole, or stands unharmed in the midst of fires? You cannot avoid the death-bearing plague unless, cutting away the root of the old evil, you drive out idleness, cups, and leisure."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-19","html_id":"p-en-0021-0006","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0021:p-0006","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":21,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0021","sequence":6,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-21","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0021-0006"},"text":"What was stronger than fearsome Samson, who alone, with immense strength, was able to lay low a thousand men with a single jawbone? Yet a vile woman destroyed him, worn down, alas, by continual complaints. Therefore do not trust the tears of a wicked woman; let her prayers, together with her threats, be suspect to you. By its pestilential breath the flame of lust silently breaks into the inmost parts of the heart."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-19","html_id":"p-en-0021-0007","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0021:p-0007","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":21,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0021","sequence":7,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-21","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0021-0007"},"text":"You should rightly shudder, recalling the crime of adultery in David, than whom scarcely anyone could be found more religious, not to mention his son, who in wisdom shone far beyond all other men. Yet both prudent Solomon and his excellent father were captured by women’s enticements; and by falling grievously do they not silently warn us to shun fierce dangers from afar?"},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":["trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0021:p-0008:annotation-001"],"chapter_id":"ch-19","html_id":"p-en-0021-0008","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0021:p-0008","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":21,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0021","sequence":8,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-21","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0021-0008"},"text":"You, therefore, who cast off all delays and shake out the death-bearing serpent, men, lest the Dragon hold you captive any longer: if the pestilential plague is unwilling to go out with gentle steps, drive it out of the house. Though, when driven out, she may cry out, murmur, [unclear], tearing reputation to pieces, pour forth insults against the house from every side, weep, and wail, let none of these things move manly hearts; they perish like the briefest smoke."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":["trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0021:p-0009:annotation-001"],"chapter_id":"ch-19","html_id":"p-en-0021-0009","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0021:p-0009","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":21,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0021","sequence":9,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-21","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0021-0009"},"text":"Rather, let terror, care, fear, and shame press your hearts with just dread and torment them, lest excessive [unclear] and the greatest punishment [come upon] you, when the spirit, filthy with many crimes, shall be set before the judgment of its Lord. Let not the cries, tears, reproaches, threats, and fury of a vile prostitute move you; but let the avenger of crimes, just and upright, terrify you, full of shameful deeds, and black Cocytian Orcus, and Acherontian Styx. Lest at some time, forgotten amid innumerable filths by the vows and goads of wicked Cypris, the avenging devouring flame of wickedness burn you, plunged utterly into the terrible lake, which always crackles with sulphur and fires."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-19","html_id":"p-en-0021-0010","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0021:p-0010","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":21,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0021","sequence":10,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-21","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0021-0010"},"text":"Another Poem on the Dignity of Priests"},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-19","html_id":"p-en-0021-0011","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0021:p-0011","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":21,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0021","sequence":11,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-21","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0021-0011"},"text":"Venerable men, priests of God, heralds of the Most High, lamps of the day, shining with the ray of charity and hope, receive with your ears the words of my mouth."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-19","html_id":"p-en-0021-0012","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0021:p-0012","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":21,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0021","sequence":12,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-21","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0021-0012"},"text":"You serve in the sanctuary of God; beware lest you be barren or empty, if you wish to live with the true stock."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-19","html_id":"p-en-0021-0013","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0021:p-0013","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":21,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0021","sequence":13,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-21","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0021-0013"},"text":"You are the protectors of the catholic law, the salt of the earth, the light of men, the shepherds of sheep, the walls of the House of Israel, correctors of morals, judges of the Church, teachers of the nations."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-19","html_id":"p-en-0021-0014","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0021:p-0014","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":21,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0021","sequence":14,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-21","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0021-0014"},"text":"If the protection of the law falls, the law is abolished; if the salt has lost its savor, with what shall it be salted? Unless the light appears, the way will not be known; unless the shepherd keeps watch, the sheepfold will be broken into."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-19","html_id":"p-en-0021-0015","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0021:p-0015","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":21,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0021","sequence":15,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-21","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0021-0015"},"text":"You have begun to tend the vineyard of God, which you ought to water with the streams of doctrine, to root out thorns and thistles far away, so that the roots of faith may be able to sprout."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-19","html_id":"p-en-0021-0016","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0021:p-0016","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":21,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0021","sequence":16,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-21","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0021-0016"},"text":"You are oxen threshing on the threshing floor, prudently separating the grain from the chaff, the laypeople, who are frail and inconstant. Whatever laypeople see to displease you, they say without doubt is not permitted to them; whatever they see you fulfill in action, they believe is permitted and free from fault."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-19","html_id":"p-en-0021-0017","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0021:p-0017","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":21,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0021","sequence":17,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-21","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0021-0017"},"text":"Since you have been established as shepherds of sheep, do not be idle like mute dogs. Sharp barkings are not lacking to you; the rapacious wolf envies the safety of the sheep. The flock"},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-19","html_id":"p-en-0022-0001","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0022:p-0001","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":22,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0022","sequence":1,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-22","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0022-0001"},"text":"The faithful flock is sustained by threefold food: the Lord’s body, by which salvation is increased; the compendium of the word, which is to be given discreetly; worldly food, lest it fall into peril."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-19","html_id":"p-en-0022-0002","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0022:p-0002","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":22,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0022","sequence":2,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-22","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0022-0002"},"text":"You are bound to preach the truth to them; but what, to whom, how, where, and when you must carefully reconsider, why, lest anyone say that you err in your office."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-19","html_id":"p-en-0022-0003","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0022:p-0003","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":22,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0022","sequence":3,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-22","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0022-0003"},"text":"It belongs to the office of your dignity to give freely the gifts of grace to those who seek them; but if ever you sell the gifts of faith, know that you will incur the leprosy of Gehazi."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-19","html_id":"p-en-0022-0004","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0022:p-0004","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":22,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0022","sequence":4,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-22","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0022-0004"},"text":"Administer the Eucharist freely to the people; hear confessions freely, baptize freely; according to the Apostle, give all things to all; preserve only that which is your own."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-19","html_id":"p-en-0022-0005","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0022:p-0005","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":22,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0022","sequence":5,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-22","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0022-0005"},"text":"Let your conduct be religious, your conscience clean, your life virtuous, your habit regular, and your mind gracious; let no criminal stain defile you."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":["trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0022:p-0006:annotation-001"],"chapter_id":"ch-19","html_id":"p-en-0022-0006","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0022:p-0006","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":22,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0022","sequence":6,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-22","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0022-0006"},"text":"Let no pride oppress the sign of [unclear] mind; let your gaze be grave, let your habit be a witness; let nothing entangle you in dishonorable cares, you to whom the keys of the heavenly kingdom have been entrusted."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-19","html_id":"p-en-0022-0007","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0022:p-0007","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":22,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0022","sequence":7,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-22","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0022-0007"},"text":"Be brief in speech, lest loquacity, nurse of vanities, draw you into guilt; let the word you set forth be shortened, for in much speaking sin is not lacking."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-19","html_id":"p-en-0022-0008","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0022:p-0008","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":22,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0022","sequence":8,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-22","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0022-0008"},"text":"Be kindly, sober, prudent, just, chaste, simple, pious, patient, hospitable, humble, teaching your subjects, consoling the wretched, correcting the wicked."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-19","html_id":"p-en-0022-0009","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0022:p-0009","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":22,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0022","sequence":9,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-22","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0022-0009"},"text":"Would that you could so bear the pastoral care and lead the spiritual life that, when you have put off the fleshly cloak, the Lord may clothe you with the eternal stole."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-19","html_id":"p-en-0022-0010","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0022:p-0010","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":22,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0022","sequence":10,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-22","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0022-0010"},"text":"May he who sits on the throne of highest majesty purge you of vice, cleanse you from sins, come to your aid in your piety, so that at last you may sit in Abraham’s bosom. Amen."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-19","html_id":"p-en-0022-0011","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0022:p-0011","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":22,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0022","sequence":11,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-22","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0022-0011"},"text":"Another."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-19","html_id":"p-en-0022-0012","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0022:p-0012","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":22,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0022","sequence":12,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-22","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0022-0012"},"text":"A Poem on the Eyes."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-19","html_id":"p-en-0022-0013","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0022:p-0013","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":22,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0022","sequence":13,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-22","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0022-0013"},"text":"From Lamentations, chapter 3."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-19","html_id":"p-en-0022-0014","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0022:p-0014","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":22,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0022","sequence":14,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-22","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0022-0014"},"text":"“My eye has plundered my 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love."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-19","html_id":"p-en-0022-0018","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0022:p-0018","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":22,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0022","sequence":18,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-22","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0022-0018"},"text":"For Love, fearsome with his hidden bow, first striking the slippery little eyes, creeps into the veins and passes into the very ark of the 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wickedly."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-19","html_id":"p-en-0022-0023","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0022:p-0023","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":22,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0022","sequence":23,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-22","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0022-0023"},"text":"Turning slippery images over in your mind, wretched man, you are burned within by a blind fire, cherishing a silent wound in your veins, by which you will perish."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-19","html_id":"p-en-0022-0024","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0022:p-0024","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":22,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0022","sequence":24,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-22","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0022-0024"},"text":"Indeed, already you have perished before the Lord, burning violently with putrid heat, while in your madness you wickedly desire the crime and love the wound."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-19","html_id":"p-en-0022-0025","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0022:p-0025","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":22,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0022","sequence":25,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-22","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0022-0025"},"text":"Why do you look with wandering eyes through all the streets at whatever comes in your way, when youthful heat burns even one unwilling more than enough?"},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-19","html_id":"p-en-0022-0026","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0022:p-0026","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":22,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0022","sequence":26,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-22","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0022-0026"},"text":"The venom of the basilisk is less to be feared than deceptive beauty and an adorned woman: by sight the former kills the body, the latter the mind with everlasting death."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-19","html_id":"p-en-0022-0027","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0022:p-0027","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":22,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0022","sequence":27,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-22","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0022-0027"},"text":"The prophet of the holy Lord is witness, the royal psalmist, who, seeing a woman’s naked body, suddenly fell into grave sin."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-19","html_id":"p-en-0022-0028","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0022:p-0028","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":22,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0022","sequence":28,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-22","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0022-0028"},"text":"Who after this, I ask, will not fear for himself, when he sees that such a man fell? Whom will that pious David, made an adulterer, not terrify?"},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-19","html_id":"p-en-0022-0029","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0022:p-0029","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":22,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0022","sequence":29,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-22","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0022-0029"},"text":"The End."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":["trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0022:p-0030:annotation-001"],"chapter_id":"ch-19","html_id":"p-en-0022-0030","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0022:p-0030","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":22,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0022","sequence":30,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-22","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0022-0030"},"text":"From what I have suffered I am warned to bear evils fittingly. He who profits others endures sharp goads here; thence [unclear]"},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":["trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0022:p-0031:annotation-001"],"chapter_id":"ch-19","html_id":"p-en-0022-0031","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0022:p-0031","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":22,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0022","sequence":31,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-22","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0022-0031"},"text":"The Vanity of All [unclear]"},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-19","html_id":"p-en-0022-0032","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0022:p-0032","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":22,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0022","sequence":32,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-22","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0022-0032"},"text":"Donatus Faetius was printing at Brixen. In the year of the Lord 1577."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-19","html_id":"p-en-0022-0033","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0022:p-0033","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":22,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0022","sequence":33,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-22","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0022-0033"},"text":"H Heinrich"},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-19","html_id":"p-en-0023-0001","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0023:p-0001","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":23,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0023","sequence":1,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-23","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0023-0001"},"text":"Who after this, I ask, will not fear for himself, When he sees that such a man has fallen? Whom would not that pious David, Having become an adulterer, terrify?"},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-19","html_id":"p-en-0023-0002","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0023:p-0002","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":23,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0023","sequence":2,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-23","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0023-0002"},"text":"Who after this, I ask, will not fear for himself, When he sees that such a man has fallen? Whom would not that pious David, Having become an adulterer, terrify?"},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-19","html_id":"p-en-0023-0003","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0023:p-0003","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":23,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0023","sequence":3,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-23","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0023-0003"},"text":"END."},{"alignment_precision":"segment","annotations":[],"chapter_id":"ch-19","html_id":"p-en-0023-0004","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0023:p-0004","kind":"paragraph","language":"en","segment":23,"segment_id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0023","sequence":4,"targets":{"parallel":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus_parallel.html#seg-23","reading":"works/prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus.html#p-en-0023-0004"},"text":"From the evils I have suffered I am admonished to bear misfortunes with composure. 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Verum quoniam uix\nest vt à nobis aliquid ita nouum ac\ninauditum excogitari dicìue possit,\nquin antea vel saepius dictum, audi-\ntum est aliquot alios celeberrimi\nnominis Theologos tractasse infici-\nari nec possumus, nec volumus. Et.\nenim quo ille vixit tẽpore, iam ante\nannos centum, aut eadem vigebant,\nquae hodie flagitia, aut hanc nostram\ntempestatem tot sceleribus conta-\nminatum iri uaticinus est, ita ple- rorum\n\nrorumque mores et vitam depingit;\natque adeò quid nobis agendum, qđ\nfugiendum egregiè ob oculos pro-\nponit. Quae potifsima ratio fuit, cur\nvobis pijssimum eius libellum prae\ncaeteris cõmendãdum censuerimus.\nAccedit huc quod audiamus Vrba\nnum praedecefforem nostrum, cuius et amp; memoriam colimus, &amp; veftigia li-\nbenter sequimur, hunc eundem tra-\nctatum vobis laudare folitum. Cum\nigitur nostrum fit vobis praereire, vos\nvocare, vos excitare, persuasum ha-\nbetote, illud nos eò libentius ac fae-\npius facere, quòd videamus cohor-\ntationes nostras apud vos inanes nō\neffe; quarum fructus haud exiguos et amp; ipfi iam sentimus, &amp; vniuerfus\ngrex nofter propediem longè vberi-\nores percipiet, fi, quod uestra fpõte\nfacitis","segment":1,"source":{"mapping_precision":"exact","pages":[{"label":"1","number":1},{"label":"2","number":2},{"label":"3","number":3},{"label":"4","number":4},{"label":"5","number":5},{"label":"6","number":6},{"label":"7","number":7},{"label":"8","number":8},{"label":"9","number":9},{"label":"10","number":10},{"label":"11","number":11},{"label":"12","number":12},{"label":"13","number":13},{"label":"14","number":14}]}},{"duplicate_of":null,"english_available":true,"html_id":"seg-2","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0002","latin":"facitis, nostris precibus alacrius ad\nvenerandi patris Trithemij praescri-\npta uitã informaueritis. Neminem\nuestrùm ignorare arbitramur, quāti\nsint apud imperitam multitudinem\nPastorum exempla, à quibus si quid\nliberius fiat, id sibi non tantum lice-\nre existimat, sed plerunque uidemus\nmulta addere &; afferre de suo. Qua-\nre tales exemplo &; oratione uos prę\nstate, quales eos esse decet, qui salu-\ntis suae omnes propè rationes à uo.\nbis suspensas habent. Valete officij\nmunerisq́; uestri memores.\nDatum Strasburgi ex\narce nostra Epis-\ncopali Cal.\nFebrua.\nAnno à salute reparata\nM.D.LXXVII.\n\nHEXASTICHON\nAD LECTOREM.\nHOCCE pium castis euoluet\nmoribus alter,\nPectore at impuro perleget alter\nopus:\nGaudeat ille parem monitis se du-\ncere uitam;\nSperet et aeternae praemia grata\ndomus.\nHic timeat, recto melior nisi dog-\nmate fiat,\nSentiat vltorẽ ne sua uita Deum.\n[Decorative fleuron]\n\nIOANNIS TRI-\nTEMII ABBATIS,\nad Nicolaum Mernicensem Presby\nterum de Sacerdotum Vita\ninstituenda libellus.\nCaput primum.\n\nETIS à me NICOLAE\nfrater amantissime, &amp; cre\nbris Epistolis instas vt tibi\nformam in sacerdotio lau-\ndabiliter viuẽdi stilo cõmendem. Supra\nvires ingenij me laborare compellis, mor\nsibus q́; aemulorum lacerandum exponis,\nqui me ex hoc p̃sumptuosum iudicabunt,\ndidici, tibi velim demõstrare. Et quanꝗ̈\nse res B\nB 10234567890-+*()_!~:;.?/`|&lt;&gt;\n&lt;&gt;==&lt;-&gt;=&lt;-&gt;&lt;-&gt;-&lt;-&gt;-&lt;--&lt;-&gt;\n&lt;-&gt;-&lt;-&lt;-&gt;-&gt;-&lt;-&amp;-&lt;-&gt;\n&lt;-&gt;-&lt;&gt;-&lt;-&gt;E\n&lt;-&gt;-&lt;/Gap>\n&lt;-&gt;-&lt;\n\nse res ita habeat, malo tamen aemulatio-\nnis subire iudicium, quàm charitatis in te\nmeae ferre detrimentum. Tanta enim di-\nlectione te semper colui, vt negare tibi\nquippiam postulanti nunꝗ̈ consueuerim.\nCupiens itaq́; satisfacere precibus tuis,\nnormam viuendi ex scriptis sanctorum\ntibi commendare volui: non quod statui\ntuo prorfus ex omni parte sufficiat, sed\npro qualicunq́; principio ad honestam con-\nuerfationem te, si velis, inducat. Inpri\nmis itaq́; te moneo, ex diffinitione nomi-\nnis, statũ pensare indictę conuerfationis.\nEtenim dicimur Clerici, quotquot in\nfortem Domini fumus specialiter electi.\nInterpretemur itaq́; uocabulum nominis,\n&amp; intelligemus qualitatem praeceptę ho-\nnestatis. Cleros etenim Grecè, fors in-\nterpͣtur latinè. A cleros ergo clerici,\nin domini fortēm dicuntur electi. Si nos igitur\n\nigitur in Dei sortem uocatos agnoscimus,\ncur adhuc mundo militamus? Ad quid\nin terra morientium hęreditatem queri-\nmus, qui Deum se nobis pollicentem here\nditatem expectamus? In veteri namq́;\ntestamento legimus dominum sacerdoti-\nbus et leuitis praecepisse, ne inter filios\nIsrael fratres suos acciperent haeredata.\ntem, eò quod ipse hereditas esset eorum.\nNunc ergo si esse te clericum existimas,\ndebes à caeteris hominibus excellẽtia con\nuersationis honestior incedere, & mundi\nhuius perituras diuitias minimè amare.\nQuia si animum tuum saeculi hereditati\nsubmiseris, extra sortem Domini cum in-\nsipiẽtibus collocaberis. Non enim digna-\nbitur te Dominus inter electos suos reci-\npere, si post aurum abiens, mundum de-\ncreueris amare. Turpissima est in sacerdo\nte Christi, auaritia, que seruum Dei mi-\nnistrum\n\nnistrum facit idolorum. Haec si animum\ntuum semel ceperit, nunꝗ̈ sui compotem\namplius dimittit. Nemo enim potest duo\nbus dominis seruire dissentibus. Non\npotestis, inquit, Deo seruire et Maño-\nnae. Non poteris bonus esse clericus, si\nfueris auarus. Scio autem, & longa ex-\nperientia tecum conuersando didici, quo-\nriam natura parcum te genuit, caue ne\ndonum gratiae ad fomenta conuertas auda\nritiae. Enimuerò qui volunt diuites fieri\nin hoc seculo, frequenter in tentationes\nincidũt diaboli. Oportet autem ministri Dei\nsegregatum esse à sollicitudine mũdi,\nqͣa non potest ad Deum ire mens libera,\nsi terrenis curis fuerit implicata. Hinc\ncoronas rasas portamus in capite, quatenus\nabiectis superfluatibus, libere ad\nDeum ascensum paremus in cogitatione.\nCrines namꝗ̈; capitis, superfluentes ter-\nrena","segment":2,"source":{"mapping_precision":"exact","pages":[{"label":"15","number":15},{"label":"16","number":16},{"label":"17","number":17},{"label":"18","number":18},{"label":"19","number":19},{"label":"20","number":20}]}},{"duplicate_of":null,"english_available":true,"html_id":"seg-3","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0003","latin":"renę designant actionis. Et sicut ex suꝑ-\nfluitate humoris crines capitis ꝓueniūt,\nsic ex amore pecuniae solicitudes mundi\ncrescunt. Cum ergo crines capitis in mo-\ndum coronae abradimus, omnes mundi\ncuras contemnamus. Sicut autem caput\npars est eminētior corporis, ita mens uis\nsuprema rationis. Idcirco autem corona̓\ngestamus in capite, vt terrenis curis ab-\nsoluti, ad Dei contemplationem liberius\neleuemur in mēte. Vnde et nos claustra\nles q Monachi dicimur, coronis amplissi-\nmis ornati, crines pauciores in capite re-\nlinquimus, vt nos actiuę vitę mortuos\nin contemplatione coelestiū vacare perā-\nplius ostendamus. Attende nunc diffini-\ntionem nominis, & cura condignis vitę\nmeritis sorti respondere superni condito-\nris. Omni custodia serua cor tuum, ne te\nB 3 in pro-\n\nin profundum auaritię demergat cupidi-\ntas, ne libidinis ardor animũ tuum cum\npeccatoribus in coenũ luxuriae detrahat,\nne superbiae fastus te ad inferos sine fine\ncruciandum secum trahat. Caue ne per\nhuius mundi curas à sorte Dei decidas,\ncaue ne famã boni nominis perdas, caue\nne in via contemptorũ Dei pergas. Ru-\ninas multorum in circuitu sacerdotũ con\nsidera, & de tuo semper periculo simili\nformida. Nusꝗ̈ inter mortales securius\nviuitur, quam si periculum semper time\natur. Vnde scriptum est: Beatus homo\nqui semper est pauidus, qui autem men-\ntis est durae, corruet in malũ. Enimuerò\npericulum qui timet, cauet, qui negligit,\nincidit. Oportet ministrum Christi, sacer\ndotem Dei, virum esse, non puerum, vt\nsciat, & intelligat quale onus susceperit,\nꝓ cuius administratione in districto Dei\niudicio\n\niudicio fit redditurus rationem. Sit ergo prudens, sobrius, castus, & quietus, sit pudicus, benignus, mansuetus, vt qui plebis indoctę p̃ceptor constituitur, nul- lum de sua conuersatione contemptum pa tiatur. Sacerdotis est, interrogatum re- spondere de lege, vitia subditorum per verba sanctae praedicationis constanter arguere, & nulla ꝓveritatis amore ad uersa formidare. Oportet eum qui sacer dotio in populo Dei fungitur, virum do ctumesse in lege diuina, vt sciat in tem- pore noua ꝓferre et uetera, ne inter ca- nes mutos non valentes latrare officij sui perdat dignitatem. Tuum nunc est ò Nicolae, aliorum vitia sedula monitione ar guere, & te vitijs alienum exhibere, ne si vitiosus crimina arguas, temetipsum damnãdũ reddas. Nemo enim in alio confidenter potest reprehendere, quod se con scientia B 4\n\nscientia teste meminerit com̃isisse. Opor-\ntet ergo illum esse irreprehensibilem, qui\naliorum peccata sedet iudicare: quia qui\nin se committit quod in alijs arguit, non\nemendat, sed prouocat. Sacerdotes hypo\ncritis similes inueniuntur, qui delinquen\ntibus fratribus in leuioribus irascuntur,\n&amp; sibi ingrauioribus nolunt à quoquam\nindignari. Misera humanae fragilitatis\nconditio, peccatorem peccator cõdemnat,\n&amp; disparẽ fert in pari crimine sententiã.\nMentiar si non multotiẽs proximũ suũ\nde fornicatione arguit adulter, pauca in\nalio vitia cõdemnati judeʒ in multis vi-\ntiosus, &amp; vt suam prauitatem occultare\nvaleat, omniũ delicta manifestat. Con-\ntra quem à Domino dicitur, Hypocrita\neijce primum quã gestas trabem in oculo\nproprio, &amp; sic festucam uideas in alieno.\nQuid furem reprehedit sacrilegus? Vi\ntiosum\n\ntiosum sceleratus cur arguit? Infructu-\nosa prorfus erit correctio, quā vitae com\nmaculat aequalis turpitudo. Vt igitur ca\nreas hypocritarū opprobrio,caue alterius\ncorrector in simili delinq̃re peccato. Nun\nquam fiet vtilis correctio in subditis,\ndum is q̄praeest, publicis submittit colla\npeccatis. Enīuerò ius correctionis amit-\ntitur quādo correctoris cōuersatio subdi-\ntorum vtijs inquinatur. Sacerdotij vi-\nlescit autoritas, si honestatem conuerfati\nonis publica corrumpit iniquitas. Omnis\nigitur correctio in suo autore sumat exor\ndium, & sic demum secura procedat in\npublicū. Suspendat correctionis ad tem-\npus sententiam, quem in crimine simili\ncomscientia propria remordet. Corruptus\niam est vt plurimum status credentium,\n& est sicut populus, sic etiam Sacerdos.\nOmnes auaritiae student, à maiore vfq́;\nad infimū","segment":3,"source":{"mapping_precision":"exact","pages":[{"label":"21","number":21},{"label":"22","number":22},{"label":"23","number":23},{"label":"24","number":24},{"label":"25","number":25}]}},{"duplicate_of":null,"english_available":true,"html_id":"seg-4","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0004","latin":"ad infimū. Vę genti peccatrici, quae sem-\nper ad grauiora prolabitur, dum pari de\nlicto obnoxios suos iudices intuetur. Ad\ntantam nunc miseriam deuenit autoritas\nEcclesiastica, vt Sacerdotũ verba iube-\namur amplecti, non facta. Dicunt enim\nde semetipsis infoelices presbyteri, inqui-\nnationis suae testimonium perhibentes:\nEruditionis nostrę verba vos, O Chri-\nfideles, attendite, exẽpla cauete. Over\nba confusione sempiterna dignissima, que\nquantum ex doctrina erudire populum\nDei debuerant, tantum ex operibus per-\nuersis scandalizãt. Indocti, rudes, iam\nsine discretione meriti ad sacerdotiũ ve-\nniunt, qui moribus suis pessimis Christi\noues infoeliciter occidunt. Nulla iam in\nordinandis clericis vitae sanctitas requi\nritur, literarũ eruditio nulla postulatur,\nconscientię puritas nõ attẽditur. Sufficit apud\n\napud eos, si currẽtem Soritem, possit construere, si cuius partis orationis fit Dñs, respondere, si ita, & non, intelligere. Vaenostrę tempestatis Episcopis, qui secula-ribus negotijs intenti, ordinationes cleri corum non cõsiderant, sed curam examinandi imperitis locant. Quam districtã sunt subituri sententiam, qui se totius in Ecclesia mali exhibet causam. Enimuerò cum oporteat sacerdotem fidelium doctũ esse et sanctum, qua temeritate imperiti ad sacerdotium veniunt, qui nec se nec alios erudire possunt? Neq́; enim sine doctrina, bona in clerico vita sufficit, neq́; doctrina sine populum salubriter erudit. Nam doctorem perimit, vita sine doctrina inutilem facit. Latratu siquidem canum et baculo Pastoris, rabies luporum fuganda est. Pastor itaq́; ecclesiasticus per vitam\n\nvitam bonam ouibus suis exemplum iustitiae praebeat , per salutarem doctrinam mentes auditorum pascat : ne si vnum sine altero faciat, vel se negligat vel gre gis curam infructuosè agat. Heu quid di cam de sacerdotibus nostris indoctis, & vitiosis, auaris, luxuriosis et pessimis? Pudet me loqui, & filere non ualeo. Pro spice tibi Nicolae charissime ne imitator eorum fias, qui contẽptis codicibus scrip turarũ, ludis et potationibus diem totũ vacant, qui se mulierum com̃ixtionibus maculant, qꝫ prauis suis moribus multos in lege Dei scandalizant. Esto in populo Dei honestatis exemplar, in oĩbus, quã- tum fieri potest, vt omne malę suspicionis occasionem tollas. Oportet enim testimo nium habere, etiam ab his qui foris sunt, ꝗa praedicãtis sermo facilè contemnitur, cuius\n\ncuius vita malis suspicionibus in populo\nnotatur. Teipsum itaque bonorum operũ\ncultorem exhibeas, quatenus populũ Dei\nnon minus exemplo, quàm sermone infor\nmare queas. Quod vt salubriter possis\nperficere, consortia indisciplinatorũ cura\ndeclinare: quia vix sine reprehensione\nviuere sufficit, qui malorũ consortia non\nfugit. Dicit enim scriptura: Cum sancto\nsanctus eris, & cū peruerso peruerteris.\nEt iterũ: Qui tangit picem, inquinabi-\ntur ab ea. Vnusquisq́; propositi sui dele-\nctatur habere consortium. Nam si pedem\ntucum à conuentu malignantum non pro\nhibueris, subditorum detractionibus oñi\ntempore subiacebis. Facile decipitur iuue\nnilis animus consortio peruersorum. Ju-\nuenis es, &c) in vtranq́; partẽ flexibilis.\nJdcirco summa tibi diligentia inuigilan-\ndum est, ne indisciplinatorum consortio\ndepra-\n\ndepraueris. Nihil enim sic iuuenibus no-\ncet, quemadmodum praua exempla se-\nniorũ. Quanto verò iuniores, tanto tibi\nmaiori solicitudine curandum est, vt vi\ntam tuam in sinceritate timoris Domini\ncustodias. Scriptum est enim: Adolesce̓s\niuxta viam suam, etiam cum senuerit,\nnon recedet ab ea. Quod\niuuenis didiceris, in\nsenectute pra-\ncticabis.\nDE FUGIEN-\n\nDE FUGIENDO\nconsortio mulierum.\nCaput secundum.\nDE foeminarum autem fa-\nmiliaritate (quae sacerdoti-\nbus Dei ꝑniciosissima est)\nquid dicam, cum decretae\nSanctorum patrum hanc districta\nSatis prohibitione interdicant? Si tibi\nbeatissimi patris Hieronymi monita prę-\nscripsero, illico exclamabis, domum gu-\nbernare sine ministerio famulę nõ ualeo,\ncibos mihimetipsi parare nõ sufficio, mun\ndare uestes sordidas nolo. Quid,inquis,\nmihi precepta Hieronymi allegas, quae\nnon ligant nisi voluntatem? Quis Hie-\nronymum legislatorem meum constituit?\nSacrosancta inquã Ecclesia vniuersalis\ndicta illius approbat, inter Canones pre-\ncepta","segment":4,"source":{"mapping_precision":"exact","pages":[{"label":"26","number":26},{"label":"27","number":27},{"label":"28","number":28},{"label":"29","number":29},{"label":"30","number":30},{"label":"31","number":31}]}},{"duplicate_of":null,"english_available":true,"html_id":"seg-5","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0005","latin":"cepta eius de hac materia lata locat, & tu cõtra tantam autoritatem prę sumis? Sed dieres: Legem hanc abrogauit consuetudo contraria, quae pro iure ex multo tempore est habenda. Sed mentitur iniquitas sibi, & stulta cõsideratione in semetipsa decipitur. Consuetudo bonis moribus cõtraria, nunꝗ legem aut tollere, aut constituere potest. Et quid tam contrariũ honestati sacerdotali, quã adolescentularum cõtubernio delectari? Periclitatur castitas, vbi inter mulierculas, sacerdotum transit societas. Prima enim fortiffima clericorum tentamenta, ex frequenti acceffu mulierum proueniũt. Multos prostrauit stulta pręsumptio, qui manibus (vt ita dixerim) instrumenta victoriae hostibus tradide-runt. Difficillimè vitatur periculum, si occafio non vitetur. Enimuerò dum foemina\n\nmina moratur cum clerico , solaq́; residet\ncum solo , cibos comedenti praeparat , le-\nctulumq́; dormiẽti componit, alloquitur,\narridet , fomenta libidinis adminirat.\nQuantumlibet cta t foemina, mper\nclerico e timenda. Nam cut cintille de\ncarbonibus proliunt,ita virus concupi-\nc̃tiae ex mulierum aidua familiaritate\ndiffunditur. Janua diaboli , porta infer-\nni, via iniquitatis, orpionisq́; dira per\ncuio , &amp; nociuum genus fallendi , viro\ncao familiaris e foemina. Cum proxi-\nmat , imulat : cum loquitur , incendit:\n cũ tãgit , uehemẽter exurit. Non damna-\nmus xum, ed catitatis denunciamus\npericulum. Legimus S. Augu . tãtopere\nfugisse foeminas , ut domum am Epico-\npalem, nec rem propriã ingredi per-\nmitteret. Nouimus et amp; nos complures a-\ncer dotes, qui et amp; domum et amp; plebem bi\nC commiß.\n\ncommissam, sine ministerio famulę, mul-\ntis annis innocuè gubernarũt. Neq́; enim\ntibi difficile erit imitari, quod alios con-\nspicis actitasse. Caue itaq́;, &) consortio\nadolescentularum ne appropies, cum etia̓\ninter anus difficile fit caste viuere. Me-\nmento cum quo loquaris in Altari, & os\ndiuinis ministerijs consecratum, ne effun\ndas in oscula metricum. Turpissimum\nest enim, manibus sanctae vnetionis oleo\nconsecratis, quibus Dei filius tenetur et immolatur, tactibus pollutis contingere\nmulierẽ. Ne dederis maculã gloriae tuae,\n&amp;) nomen tuum cunctis in opprobrium.\nTe cuncti in publico, te in agro rustici\naratores, & vinitores quotidie fortiter\nlacerabunt, si cum foeminis (maximè iu-\nnioribus) iuuenis ipse habitare pręsum-\npseris. Eris in ꝓuerbiũ et derisum omni\npopulo, si iuuenciarũ domicilia frequẽ-\nter\n\nter fueris ingressus: Contra hostem tuū\ninuisibilem, qui latus tuum semper insi-\ndiando circũuolat, omni tempore vigila,\n& iuxta Nasonem, malorum principijs\nobsta, quando adhuc infirmiora sunt ten-\ntamẽta. Nam (sicut uidemus) posteaquã\nclericus semel corpus suum amplexibus\nmeretricum exhibuerit, raro vel nunꝗ̈\nad perfectam emendationẽ redit. Omnes\nenim qui peruerso amore uexuriae iacuerint, tan\ntò difficilius ad sanitatem mentis reuer-\ntuntur. Figit in corde humano radices\nvitium fortiter inueteratum. O quot ho-\ndie sacerdotes in Dei Ecclesia sunt, qui in\nprofundum luxuriae submersi, longanimi\ntatem Dei contemnũt, sicut scriptum est:\nImpius cùm venerit in profunda malorũ,\ncontemnit. Multi sunt, non est dubium,\ninter clericos libidine sordidati, qui cúm à prin-\n\nà principio suę promotionis castè viuere\n\nproposuerunt, ex negligenti sensuum cu¬\n\nsodia decepti, nũc sine omni timore Dei,\n\nquasi licenter ex consuetudine meretrici¬\n\nbus commiscentur. Nihil peccati consue¬\n\ntudine deterius, qua fit, vt crimina gra¬\n\nuissima velut minima aestimentur. For¬\n\ntissimum peccati vinculum, est consuetu¬\n\ndo peccãdi, quę tempore crescit, & mora\n\nvirium sumit incrementa. Optime igitur\n\naduerfus incẽdia carnis consuluit, qui in\n\ncarmine dixit:\n\nPrincipiis obsta, ferò medicina paratur,\n\nCum mala per longas conualuere moras.\n\nSed propera, nec te uenturas differ in horas:\n\nQui non est hodie, cras minus aptus erit.\n\nNon tardes conuerti ad Dñm, ait Scri¬\n\nptura, nec differas de die in diem, quoniã\n\nquantò poenitentiam diutius distuleris,\n\ntantò minus aptus ad poenendum eris.\n\nAscende nunc mentis tuae speculam, & vide","segment":5,"source":{"mapping_precision":"exact","pages":[{"label":"32","number":32},{"label":"33","number":33},{"label":"34","number":34},{"label":"35","number":35},{"label":"36","number":36}]}},{"duplicate_of":null,"english_available":true,"html_id":"seg-6","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0006","latin":"wide stultorum infaniam Sacerdotum, q̃\nà vilibus concubinis ducuntur captiui,\nvt non quęcunq́; uolunt illa faciant, sed\nquae sibi à scortis praecipiuntur. Videres\ninterea stolidũ clericũ assidere concubinę\nsuę, & aperto ore illam intuentem, quae\nsi arriserit ei, ridet: Si fuerit indignata,\nblanditur ei, donec recõcilietur in grãm.\nCaptiuus ducitur per foeminam infaelix\nSacerdos, & qui alios regere debuerat,\nancillę suę dominio superatur. O quis\ncrederet, quãtos inter hęc miser gemitus\nemittat, quotiẽs hoc durissimum archidi-\naboli iugũ abijcere cogitet, quales in cor-\nde suo dolores portet. Interdum deniq́;\ntanta contra bestiã suam displicentia tan-\ngitur, vt eam à se repellere crastino me-\nditetur. Interea dat verba contumeliosa et amp; recipit, demumq́; post verba uenitur\nad verbera, percutit et amp; percutitur, ma- ledicit\n\nledicit et blasphematur. O stupendum\nspectaculum, caput Sacerdotis, quod con-\ntingere non licet Principi, manus mere-\ntricis lacerant, percutiũt contundũt.\nDemum post maledicta verbera, ad\nfletum se foemina uertit, lacrymas diabo-\nlo infundente emittit, quousque tandẽ ad\nmisericordia captiuum infaelicẽ reuocet,\nsibiꝙ placabilem reddat. Cerneres nunc\nmutatum subito clericum, lacrymis\nAbrae sue adeo commotum, vt qui iniu-\nriam susceperat, prior veniam deprecẽt.\nMensa debinc apponitur, conuiuium in-\nstauratnr, verbis miscentur suspiria, no-\nuarum commertia tractantur nuptiarũ.\nSedet inter haec solidus Sacerdos, de pa-\ntientia mansuetudine disputans, se in\namicam deliquisse suspirat, ad eius gr̃am\nrecuperandã totis uiribus laborat. Quid\npost renouatam geratur amicitiam, tibi\ncogita-\n\ncogitare potius licebit, quàm mihi loquit.\nNon est timor Dei ante oculos Sacerdotis\nvinculis concubinae ligati, de poenis in-\nferni pauor nullus, nulla sacerdotalis co-\ngitatio dignitatis, nulla memoria publicę\nhonestatis. Adeo vitium hoc incontinen-\ntiae in clero iam praeualuit, vt quasi coe-\nperit esse licitũ, quia publicum est. Mise-\nranda generis humani cõditio: qui alio-\nrum scelera debuerãt emẽdare, grauiora\ncommittunt. Sedent proh pudor in villis et amp; vrbibus publicè Sacerdotes, concubi-\nnarum suarum commixtione diffamati,\nvt si Praesul aliquis in sua dioecesi tales\nvoluerit corrigere, sola multitudine vi-\nctus, à proposito terretur. Si cuiuspiam\nex talibus domum ingredereris, suum infan-\ntulum, fornicationis paternę testem bra-\nchijs\n\nchijs baiulantem, & inter legendum ho-\nras Canonicas, plorantẽ consolari verbis\ncantibus, videres quoq́; surgẽtem de\nlecto patrem infaustum, natum excipere\ngenibus, osculisq́; porrectis illum in dex\ntro genu locatũ, in sinistro Breuiarium.\nInter orandũ ridenti infantulo arridet,\nploranti blanditur, crebris tacentẽ ver-\nbis affatur, & nutibus. Interea blanda\nmater occurret, de manu patris dulce pi-\ngnus codicem rapit, folia tractat, lacerat,\nfluẽtibusq́; ex ore saliuis genitoris per-\nmißu com̃aculat. Nulla inter haec oranti\ndeuotio, nulla verbis adhibetur intentio,\nsed omnis sollicitudo in consolatione plo-\nrantis cõsumitur. Cadunt verba ex ore\norantis confusa, crebrisq́; infantuli oscu-\nlis interrupta, adeò vt oratione cõpleta,\nvix se meminerit orasse. Interea nolam\ntrahit Aedituus, ad sacrificandũ altare com-\n\ncomponitur, à populo in Ecclesia hieros expectatur. Accurrit lotis manibus in lotio pueri Sacerdos, vestes sacratas quanta potest festinatione induit, sacrificium DEI districta mente consumit. O conscientia, vbi interim manes, vbi contempta iaces? O tu miser ꝗ Dei filiũ pollutis manibus cõtractas, quousq́; animam tuam vulneras, laceras, et interim? Qua deniq́; temeritate accedis ad altare, corpore animo pollutus? Nisi magna omnipotẽtis Dei miseratio ad tempus tibi parceret, te in altari, Angeli provocati, indignatione graui percutent. Vbi est votum castitatis perpetuae, quod in manus Episcopi (cúm te ordinaret) promisisti? Vbi est sacerdotij tui assumpti reuerentia? Quousq́; longanimitatẽ Dei comtemnis? An ignoras quòd patientia Dei","segment":6,"source":{"mapping_precision":"exact","pages":[{"label":"37","number":37},{"label":"38","number":38},{"label":"39","number":39},{"label":"40","number":40},{"label":"41","number":41}]}},{"duplicate_of":null,"english_available":true,"html_id":"seg-7","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0007","latin":"Dei ad poenitẽtiam te adducit? Tu autẽ secundùm duritiam tuam , & cor impae- nitens , thesaurizas tibi iram in die irae, & iusti iudicij Iesu Christi. Puto quidem in futurũ poenitere cogitas , sed quàm fit proxima , poenitentiae amputatrix mors minimè pensas. Enimuerò misericors DEVS, qui veniam poenitenti pro-misit , differenti diem crastinum non spo- pondit. Clericum autem, quem foemina cohabitans semel captiuum abduxerit, nunꝗ̈ aut rarò liberum, nisi morte inter-ueniente, dimittit. Transeo quòd multi concubinarũ dolis et maleficijs vsque adeò plerunq́; dementantur, vt se ab illarum turpissimo amore nequaquam possint excutere.Horret auditus facinora metricum, nec pudicitie synceritas au-dire patitur, qualia per Sacerdotum con-cubinas quandoq́; perpetrãtur.Ex Ka-tamenio\n\ni4\ntamenio pulmentum dñis suis conficiũt et amp; dum eos ad amorem suum cupiunt al-\nlicere,in cholicã et amp; infaniam conuertunt.\nHorrẽdis maleficijs et amp; superstitionibus,\nsuis concupiscentijs Sacerdotes implicãt,\ndonec exhaustis paulatim viribus,eos\npenitus inutiles reddant. Beatus homo\nquem Deus à muliere mala et amp; luxuriosa\ncustodiuit. Non est iniquitas super mali-\ntia mulieris, quae malis amoribus frui-\ntur. Quicquid excogitat,tentat, quic-\nquid potest,audet. Nemo credit quibus\nstudijs,vij,s,&amp;adinuẽtionibus utitur,\nvt eum quem decipere cogitat, suis vo-\nluptatibus indissolubili vinculo proster-\nnat.Ad vota se Dño suo coniungit,non\nquia diligit,sed quia cupit.Concubinarũ\netenim turba prędam sequitur,nõ Sacer\ndotem.Quousq́; diues est,omnibus abũ\ndat,latus domini non dèserit.Si autem pane\n\npane indigere ceperit, concubina ad aliũ se conuertit. Interdum verò gnatorum intuitu, Sacerdos et cõcubina usq́; adeò conglutinati funt, ut separari ab inuicem (nisi per mortem) nulla ratione possint.\nFieri etiam folet, vt praebendas fuas nō nulli malint dimittere, quàm cõcubinas.\nQuid primo Pręceptori tuo cõtigerit, nō ignoras? Is foeuo meretricis illius amore (quam nouisti) miserrimè feductus, cúm propter metum viri cohabitare ei publicè non auderet, patriam, cognatos, ac quę habebat beneficia contemnẽs, vt illa frui liberè posset, cum ea clam fugiẽs discessit. Et nemo, quò abierit, in hodien num diem nouit. Scio quendam ex con cubinarijs Sacerdotem, quem cúm pro suo peccato, inter me ipsum, increpa rem, ad hoc finaliter induxi, vt continentiam deinceps perpetuam in manus meas\n\nmeas vellet promittere. Cumq́; urgerẽ,\nvt mox concubiuam eijceret, responde-\nbat, Non possum. Quare, inquã? Si eam\n(inquit) abijcerem, quis infantulorum\nmeorum curam gereret? Habebat enim\nex ea iam duos pueros. Pauper (aiebat)\nsum, pro mercede locare illos non valeo.\nMatrem itaque, donec infantuli crescant,\nnon eijciam, ne reus sanguinis fiam. Ca-\nstus tamen ero cum casta, nec vlla dein-\nceps comixtione illi sociabor. Et quid fa-\ncies (inquam) si prius q̃ isti creuerint, alij\nin locum eorum surrexerint? Jurauit se\nid velle cauere, ne fieret. Non emēdabis\n(inquio) culpam, nisi eieceris concubinā.\nDifficile est assueta relinquere, & à pri\nstinis vitijs (pręsente occasione) abstine-\nre. Nemo serpentẽ fouebit in sinu illaesus.\nAbijthomo in domum suam, & dome-\nstica scelera vsque in hunc diem dese-\nruit.\n\nvuit.Consideraui opera Dei, quoniã que\nille despexerit, nemo potest emendare.\nAdeò difficile est Sacerdotẽ semel in for-\nnicationem lapsum, ad castitatem verã\nposse resurgere, vt ex oĩbus vnum vix\nqueas inuenire. Nam iuxta scripturam:\nQui facit peccatum, seruus peccati est:\netur pi amori qui subijcitur, vix\nvnquã ex toto liberatur. Facilius enim\nfornicatio fugitur, quàm emẽdetur. Id-\ncirco mones te obtestor, vt consortia\nmulierum fugias, ne famã boni nominis\nperdas. Semel quippe infamatus de for-\nnicate Presbyter, amissum nunquam\nrecuperabit honorem: sed colloquia\nfoeminarũ deuita, crebas in foro saluta-\ntiones declina, quia per leuia verba ve-\nnitur ad pessima facta. Multos enim de-\ncepit incauta foeminarũ allocutio. Omni\ntempore vigilans esto, nec tibimetipsi vn\nquam","segment":7,"source":{"mapping_precision":"exact","pages":[{"label":"42","number":42},{"label":"43","number":43},{"label":"44","number":44},{"label":"45","number":45},{"label":"46","number":46}]}},{"duplicate_of":null,"english_available":true,"html_id":"seg-8","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0008","latin":"quã confidẽdum duxeris, quãdiu in carne viuis. Complures enim in senectute lapsos agnouimus, qui sibi de victoria praeterita securi videbantur. Nunquam etenim deest homini tentatio, quousq́; in hac vita conuerfatur. Si verò curam do mesticam sine ministerio famulae probã assumito, de cuius cohabitatione nulla in populo suspicio oriri possit. Veruntamen hoc ante omnia caueas, ne in famulam maritatam sumas. Quod enim Deusconiunxit, homo non separet. Non caret suspicione mali, cohabitatio vxoris viri alieni. Volo te, quòad fieri potest, testimonium bonum habere ab omnibus. Reddant te aliena pericula cautum, & vbi multos cecisse conspicis, ne incautus ambulare velis. Memento quòd fortissimivirip̃ sapientissimi: Viri ab Origine Mundi vsque\n\nvsque in hunc diem, per mulierum confor\n\ntia perierunt. Adam protoplastum foe-\n\nmina decepit, & eo supplātato, nos oñes\n\ninterfecit. A principio conditi orbis, per\n\nmulieres filij Dei peccauerūt, & suis sce-\n\nleribus cataclysmum super vniuersum\n\nmundum induxerunt. Exeuntes quoq́;\n\nde Aegypto filios Jsrael, mulieres allo‐\n\nphylorum prostraverūt in deserto. Quid\n\nista recensemus, cum omnium hominum\n\nfortissimum Sampsonem, vilis meretri‐\n\ncula captum suis amoribus tradiderit in\n\nmortem, & opprobrium? Nemo de sua\n\nfortitudine pręsumat, nemo de pristina\n\ncastitate cōfidat, quoniam qui sępe hodie\n\nfornicationis cadere videitur. Sapientissi\n\nmus Salomon, dolos mulierum cauere nõ\n\npotuit, quis modò tutus erit? Cadit gla‐\n\ndio mulierum fortis et sapiens, & nos fragiles\n\nfragiles insipientesq́; de securitate prae-\nsumimus? Dicit enim qui cecidit: Me-\nlior est iniquitas viri, quàm mulier bene\nfaciens. Tutius est cohabitare viro ini-\nquo, quàm foeminę bonae. Aduersarius\nenim castitatis, diabolus, nunꝗ̈ cessat ca-\nsto viro insidias ponere: si materiam de-\ncipiendi poterit inuenire, astutus cùm fit,\nnouit ad tempus dissimulare, donec tan-\ndem in vna hora omnem laborem et prae\nmiũ transactae continẽtiae possit euertere.\nJngerit se paulatim amantibus, & sub\nspecie charitatis Christanę dulcia de vir\ntutibus uitijs uerba seminat, quousque\nin laqueũ criminis incautos trahat. Jam\nfamiliarius deinceps loqui incipiunt, se-\ncretiora sua quaeque alterutrum aperiunt,\ncõtingere se manibus paulatim assuescũt.\nDemũ per mutuos risus, futura parãtur\nconnubia: dum ex consuetudine fami\nliariter\n\nliariter viuunt, in foueam diaboli subito\ncadunt. Postea verò quàm semel in mu-\ntuos reatus ceciderunt, videntur sibi fa-\nctum aliquantulum abhorrere, sed à cae-\npto non facilè possunt recedere. Pergunt\nigitur via qua coeperant, & quãquam in\nprincipio conscientia scelus abhorreat, ta-\nmen ex consuetudine paulatim id leuius\nportat. Et primùm quidem cum quodam\nverecũdo timore lasciuire incipiunt, sed\ndeinceps praua cõsuetudine obcaecati, am-\nplius non erubescunt. Venter interea se-\ncreti conscius, incipit tumescere, & sce-\nlus quod latuerat, in publicum ꝓpalare.\nNascitur postremò infantulus, ad breue\ntẽpus pater mater erubescunt, & sta-\ntim ad consueta crimina reuertūtur. Iam\nverò deinceps omnis verecundia procul\nabijcitur, conscientiae oculus obcaecatur,\ntimor Dei inferni à memoria penitus\nrepellitur.\n\nrepellitur. Viunt iam licenter in pecca-\ntis, diabolico glutino coniuncti, viuunt\ncoram hominibus diffamati, viuunt à\nDeo alieni. In desperationem mox crimẽ\ninueteratum vertitur, poenitentię reme-\ndium deridetur, longanimitas patientiae\nDei cõtemnitur. Interea Sacerdos vsque\ncò libidini seruus efficitur, vt sine concu-\nbina viuere non posse videatur. Potest\nquidem emendare peccatum, sed renuit,\nquia se vinculis luxuriae inuolutum de-\nlectabiliter sentit. Propositum poenitẽtiae\nin futurum sibi pollicetur assumere, vitã\nsuam promittit emendare: sed dum inter\ntot crimina voluntatem poenitendi pro-\ncrastinat, & tẽpus et posse pariter amit-\ntit. Hinc fit, vt sani Sacerdotes concubi-\nnarij ad remedia poenitentiae salutaris rà\nrò veniant, quia vitam adhuc diu\nprolongari sperant. In tantum quippe\nnonnulli","segment":8,"source":{"mapping_precision":"exact","pages":[{"label":"47","number":47},{"label":"48","number":48},{"label":"49","number":49},{"label":"50","number":50},{"label":"51","number":51}]}},{"duplicate_of":null,"english_available":true,"html_id":"seg-9","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0009","latin":"nonulli diabolicis dementãtur illecebris,\nvt nihil aliud quàm carnalia cogitare ua\nleant,nihil de futura retributione curent.\nPlus diligunt sceleratam concubinam,\nquàm foelicitatẽ aeternam. Quam putas\nhi poenitentiam agunt in extremis,quan-\ndo non voluntate,sed necessitate vrgen-\ntur? Qui omne tempus uitae suę in luxu-\nria consumpserunt,in extremis vitae suę\narticulis veram poenitentiam rarò con-\nsequuntur.Nam etsi talium sera poeniten\ntia (Deo miserante) aliquando vera fit,\nnon tamen sine grauissimis purgatorij tor\nmentis,ad regnum coelorũ poterunt per-\nuenire.Denique si reuelationibus credẽ-\ndum est,maxima apud inferos clericorũ\nmultitudo,inaestimabiles propter vitium\nincontinentię poenas in aeternum duratu-\nras patitur.Vides quorsum incauta mu-\nlierum familiaritas clericum pertrahat,\nquem\n\nquem aeternis cruciatibus inferni dãnat?\nPrincipijs itaque tentationum obsistendũ\nest: quia luxuria nunꝗ̈ melius uincitur,\nquàm si ꝑ fugam declinetur. Nam si per\nconsuetudinem te semel inuoluerit, nunꝗ̃\nsine speciali gratia Dei liberum dimittit.\nSi nostris uerbis adhibere fidem dubitas,\nexempla seniorum legas. Sed nõ est opus\nin libris exempla quaerere, cùm possis ad\noculum documẽta inuenire. Ecce multos\nhodie senes Sacerdotes nouimus, quorum\nesse vitã incontinentẽ scimus. Videmus\nin eis aetatẽ senescere, & iuentutis uitia\nminimè cessare. Cumq́; ad ultimam sene-\nctutem ueniunt, mores prauos non dimit\ntunt, sed quales ab initio semper fuerũt,\ntales quoque ad mortem vadunt. Cerne-\nres inter eos Sacerdotes iam decrepitos,\nadeò luxurię venenũ imbibiffe, vt cùm\nprae senectute amplius opere lasciuire ne-\nqueant,\n\nqueant,cogitatione,verbo,ac nutibus\nad consuetainardescãt.De qualibus per\nProphetam Dominus dicit: Si Aethiops\npotest mutare pellem suam,&amp; Pardus\nvarietatem suam, &amp; vos poteritis be-\nnefacere, cùm didceritis malè.Cessare\nautem in senibus foeminarum potest con-\ncubitus, sed manet vt olim desiderium\nactionis.Qualẽ te igitur senẽ desideras,\ntalismunc quoqueiuuenis uiuas.Difficile\nnamque est senem mores corrigere,&amp;\nin ueteri mente noua cogitare.Enimuerò\nsenectus mores habet,non accipit.Qui\ncum foemina iuuenis lasciuit,senex insa-\nnit.Bonum itaque est homini,cùm porta-\nueritiugum Domini ab adolescentia sua.\nquoniamsi malus iniuentute quis\nextititerarò in senectute\nbonus erit.DE RE-\n\nDE REMEDIO CONTRALVXRIAM.\nCaput tertium.\nCOnsueuere Medici primùm\naegrotis grauitatem morbi\nsubtili disputatione ostẽde-\nre, &amp; tunc demum remedij\nopem adhibere: Cognita enim grauitate\naegritudinis, minus terret amaritudo po-\ntionis. Id ego tecum facturus, primũm\nquidem periculũ foeminae cohabitationis\ntibi multimoda demonstratione aperui,\n&amp; quis sit finis huius morbi, quantum\nlicuit, declaraui. Consequens igitur nunc\nest, vt de remedio cogitemus. Caro enim\nsemper concupiscit aduersus spiritum, &\nnisi exercitio salubri refraenetur, &amp; se\nillumin fundũ dãnationis pręcipi\ntat. Hinc probè admonet Poëta, dicens:\nD 4 Ocias\n\nOcia si tollas, periére cupidinis arcus,\nContẽptaeq́; iacent, & sine luce faces.\nSãcta etenim scriptura perhibet, quoniã\nin desiderijs est omnis ociosus. Oportet\nigitur eum, qui uitium libidinis cupit ex\ntinguere, se in aliquo sancto opere iugiter\nexercere. Ociositas quippe inimica est ani-\nmae. Hinc beatus Hieronymus quendam\nadmonet, dicens: Semper aliquid boni\nfacito, vt te diabolus inueniat occupatũ.\nOptimum quippe remedium cõtra malas\ncogitationes, est operis sancti alicuius oc-\ncupatio. Enimuerò dum animus circa ali-\nquod bonum exercitiũ delectabiliter in-\ntentus est, aliunde non cogitat. Non pate-\nbit accessus diabolo, si mens fuerit occu-\npata in aliquo exercitio. Exemplũ sume\nin sancto Dauid, qui occupatus bellicis\nrebus, luxuriã domuit: ociosus in domo\nconsistens, adulterium commisit. Dum manus","segment":9,"source":{"mapping_precision":"exact","pages":[{"label":"52","number":52},{"label":"53","number":53},{"label":"54","number":54},{"label":"55","number":55},{"label":"56","number":56}]}},{"duplicate_of":null,"english_available":true,"html_id":"seg-10","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0010","latin":"manus vacat ab opere, mens languet in cogitatione. Si ergo cupis libidinem vin- cere, ocium fuge. Quibus autem exerci- tijs tempus accõmodare debeas, paucis si placet, accipito. Mane assuescas ante lucem de somno exurgere, &; orationibus tam canonicis, quàm votiuis aliquantu- lum vacare. Cumque pensum seruitutis sacris deinceps uacabis, donec te ad Mis- sam celebrandam ex officio vocatum in- telligis. Post Missam orationibus denuò vacandum est, &; sacris meditationibus quàm deuotissimè insistendum. Denique manibus laborandum, domus curanda negotia, &; si qua pro necessitate fuerint ordinanda, cum Dei timore disponantur. Opus autem manuale Sacerdotis est, scri bere, codices à se vel ab alijs descriptos impressosuè ligare, caeterisq́; honestis la- boribus\n\nboribus pro sua conditione uel necessitate\ninsistere. Denique sumpto cibo, laudes Deo\nreferendae sunt, ꝗ nos hic pascit in terris,\niterumq́; orandum, vt post hanc vitam\nsine fine pascat in coelis. His ritè comple-\ntis, non illico ad fabulas eundum est, sed\nsacris literis denuo vacandum. Denique\nmanibus operandum erit vsꝙ; ad vespe-\nram, quę vltra quartam horam non ex-\ntendatur in opere manuali. Cùm verò\niam inclinato die dormendum est, prius\nad deuotissimas oꝛones recurratur. Qui-\nbus expletis, actuum te reum corã clamãs,\nveniã et indulgentiã expostules: Nam\nsi te ipsum iudicaueris, à Deo absolueris.\nEt nisi in timore Dñi te constanter tenu-\neris, citò subuertetur domus conscientia\ntuae. Quòd si in aliquo delicto praeoccupa-\ntus fue\n\ntus fueris, mox ad lamétum poenitentiae\nrecurras, talemq́; si fieri potest Confesso-\nrem eligito, quem et scientia scripturarũ\nidoneum comprobet, & conuersatio com-\nmendet. Rarò enim confitentibus viam\nsalutis in ueritate aperit, qui conuersati-\none reproba uiuit. Quòd si tentationes\ncarnis inimico suggerẽte in anima sentire\nꝑ oꝛones et sancta exercitia quãtocyus\nexpelle. Lubricus est serpens libidinis,\n& nisi in capite, non facilè conteritur.\nDum adhuc infirmus est aduersarius, fa-\ncilè superatur. Nec te, si uiceris aliquan-\ndo, securum existimes, quia non est com-\npleta victoria, vbi quotidiana geritur\npugna. Quamdiu ergo potes subijci, non\ncredas te vicisse. Noli in tua fortitudine\nconfidere, noli tibi victoriam arrogare,\nsed spem tuã in solius Dei adiutorio scito\nconsist-\n\ncõsistere. Nemo enim castus uiribus suis.\nGratia enim Dei adiuta, carnem vincit\nbona voluntas. Oportet autẽ contra ten-\ntationes carnis sine intermissione orare\nad dominum, & dicere: Confige timore\ntuo carnes meas, à iudicijs enim tuis ti-\nmui. Noli amare delicias huius mundi,\nquae te citò euanescere facient, & ardore\nlibidinis facilè incendunt. In victu tuo\ncaueatur superfluitas, nec ciborum vari\netas appetitum moueat, sed fames. Non\napponantur incentiua libidinum, sed quę\ncorpus alant, non incendant. Vinum in\nquo est luxuria semper sit tibi suspectũ,\nne duplici ardore incendaris, potus uide-\nlicet et iuuentutis. Ignem luxurię fouet\ningremio, qui assiduo utitur vino. Verẽ-\ndorũ Noë denudatio, & incoestus Loth,\nte vinũ semp̃ timere admoneant. Ebrie-\ntas enim, viui hominis sepultura est, que\nsensus\n\nsensus destruit, rationem extinguit, men\ntem ligat, conscientiam vulnerat, sani-\ntatem corporis minuit, animam occidit.\nScaturigo malorum ebrietas, carnem ad\nluxuriam excitat, pessimis cogitationib.\ncor inquinat, in turpissima verba linguã\nlaxat. Hieronymi sacratissimi verbũ est:\nRepletus venter facile spumat in libidi-\nnẽ. Sit igitur viro casto moderata refe-\nctio, fit potus parcus et tenuis, fit sermo\npudicus. Caueat familiaritatem mulierũ,\nsensus suos omni custodia dirigat, ne in\nfoueam libidinis cadat. Quotiescunque\ncogitatio turpis mentem pulsare caeperit,\nmemoria Dñicae passionis subeat, cogita-\ntum suum in vulnera IESV Christi po\nnat. Scriptum namque est: Beatus qui te-\nnebit, & allidet paruulos suos ad petrã.\nPetra autẽ (inquit Apostolus) erat Chr̃s.\nRecordatio etenim Dominicae passionis,\nomniũ","segment":10,"source":{"mapping_precision":"exact","pages":[{"label":"57","number":57},{"label":"58","number":58},{"label":"59","number":59},{"label":"60","number":60},{"label":"61","number":61}]}},{"duplicate_of":null,"english_available":true,"html_id":"seg-11","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0011","latin":"omnium tentationũ efficacissimum reme-\ndium est. Enimuerò quem Christi passio\nnon emollit, nulla exercitatio curabit.\nMox ergo vt carnis libido spiritum op-\npugnare caeperit, leuet manus suas ad coe\nlum cultor castitatis, & dicat: Domine\nIesu Christe, amator casti consilij, tu scis\nvires meas ad resistendum exiguas, ad-\niuua infirmitate meam, per amarã passio-\nnem tuam. Credo in Domino, quoniam\nsi orans cum deuotione perstiterit, victo-\nriam aduersus carnem facilè impetrabit.\nVolo autem te (frater amantissime) non\nsolúm facta, sed verba turpia decli-\nnare. Corrumpunt enim mores bonos col\nloquia praua. Neque illos imitari velis,\nqui turpiloquijs vacantes, casto se corde\nexistimant. Ex abundãtia etenim cordis\nindicium est. Qualis vnusquisque apud se\nlateat,\n\nlateat, prolatus sermo probat. Sunt non-\nnulli , & quidem multi Sacerdotes, qui\nlasciuis moribus suis sinceritatem consci-\nentiarum violant, quáquam ad actum\nlibidinis corporaliter non accedant. Se-\ndent cum foeminis, loquentes turpia, ta-\nctus prurientes commiscent oscula,\n inter haec se castos esse gloriantur. Et\nubi manet sermo dominicus: Qui vide-\nrit mulierem ad cõcupiscendum iam\nmoechatus est eam in corde suo? Si viro\ncasto mulierem videre ad concupiscendũ\nnon licet, quantò minus impudicè contin\ngere, osculari, contrectare manibus.\nDicit namque Apostolus : Ab omni specie\nmali abstinete vos, sicut decet Sanctos.\nAn tibi non videtur mali species, inter\nhomines sedere castos, iuuencularum\nosculis tactibus q́; insanire ? Mentiar, si\nnon vidi Sacerdotes, maioris digni-\ntatis\n\ntatis Praelatos, totum in nauibus diem obscoenis cõsumere tactibus &; osculis foeminarum, nullamq́; dignitatis suę reuentiam habuisse. Jnternae libidinis indicium est, dum verba quis turpia loqui consueuit, & iungere tactus. Jnter haec ne castitas mentis illaesa manebit? Tu autem NICOLAE charissime, si dignum te DEO ministrum exhibere deside ras, si libidinis durissimũ iugum euadere optas, non solúm à factis, sed etiã à verbis turpibus, mulierũ te tactu abstinneas. Impossibile est nõ vulnerari men-tem, dum osculo et manu lasciuiens contingis mulierem. Memento nouissima tua (monet sapiens) & in aeternum non peccabis. Nihil enim adeo cohibet à intenta memoria mortis.\nDE LE-\n\nDE LECTIONE ET\nSTVDIO SCRIPTV-\nRARVM.\nCaput quartum.\nSCIO et amp; expertus sum,\nquòd efficacissimum contra\nomnes tẽtationes remediũ,\nest studiũ, &amp; lectio scriptu\nrarum. Dicit enim beatus Hieronymus:\nAma sciẽtiam scripturarum, &amp; carnis\nvitia non amabis. Sola enim scriptura\nest, quę nobis caeleste promittit in tribu-\nlatione remedium. Quid de superna pa-\ntria scire vel credere poterimus, si scrip-\nturas non habemus? Dicit namque Apo-\nstolus: Omnis scriptura diuinitus inspi-\nrata est, vt per patientiam et amp; consolati-\nonem scripturarum spem habeamus. Id-\ncirco moneo te, vt studium sanctarum\nscrip-\n\nscripturarum assumas in huius peregri-\nnationis solatium: quoniam si in lectione\nearum fueris assiduus, facilè mundũ con-\ntemnes cum uniuersis vanitatibus eius.\nNihil enim sic mentem à solicitudine va\nna ad superna eleuat, nihil sic carnis in-\ncendia sedat, quomodo sedulitas sacrę le-\nctionis. Denique officio tuo studium maxi\nmè congruit, dicente Malachia : Labia\nSacerdotis custodiunt scientiã, & legem\nrequirent ex ore eius, quia nuncius Dñi\nexercituũ eſt. Nam, sicut paulò antè di-\nximus, oportet Sacerdotem Ch̃ri, doctũ\nessè in lege diuina, et t sciat et sit vnde\nproferat sermonem. Qui enim suscepit\nanimas regere, pro quibus summo iudici\nDeo rationẽ redditurus eſt, necesse habet\nmulta legere et intelligere. Enimuerò si-\ncut dixit Magnus ille Gregorius Nazian\nzenus, & poſt cum Papa Romanus: Ars\nartium","segment":11,"source":{"mapping_precision":"exact","pages":[{"label":"62","number":62},{"label":"63","number":63},{"label":"64","number":64},{"label":"65","number":65},{"label":"66","number":66}]}},{"duplicate_of":null,"english_available":true,"html_id":"seg-12","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0012","latin":"artium est regimen animarũ. Qui autem nihil in Scripturis sanctis didicit, quid alios docebit? Aut quam in praedicando Sacerdos vtilitatem auditoribus suis afferre poterit, q̃ scripturas nescit? Vẽ nunc temporibus nostris, in quibus est si-cut populus, sic Sacerdos. Studium scri- pturarum Sacerdotes nostri abijciũt, eru ditionem negligunt, pro libris scriptura-rum, aues et canes enutriunt. Uiderint Episcopi, qui tales idiotas et inscios ad sacerdotij dignitatem promouent, qui im-peritis pastoribus curam ouium Christi commēdant. Recede de consortio eorum, qui scientiã abijciunt, qui lectionem scri-pturarũ negligunt, qui studium contem-nunt. Nihil aliud, quam mundanum sa-piunt, nihil quam vanum diligunt, nihil nisi carnale intelligunt. Citò subuertẽt te si in conuentum eorum frequenter tran- fieris.\n\nsieris. Sedẽt in insidijs, cum potatoribus\nin tabernis, ludis et comessationibus\nvacant: Non est timor DEI ante oculos\neorum. Frascuntur si quis coram eis lo-\nqui de scripturis caeperit, audire lectionẽ\ndedignantur, ad fabulas autem conuer-\ntuntur. Quid tibi et illis? Nonne Sacer-\ndotes sunt conuersatione asini? Nihil pe-\nnitus de scripturis intelligũt, discere con-\ntemnunt. Romana lingua scribere vel lo\nqui nesciunt, vix in vulgari exponere\nEuangelia didicerunt. Quantos errores,\nfabulas et hęreses in Ecclesia prędicãdo\npopulis enuncient, quis nisi expertus cre-\ndere posset? Pro libris sibi liberos compa\nrant, pro studio concubinas amant. Isti\nsunt cęci et duces cęcorum, qui populum\nDei ad iustitiam non erudiunt, sed potius\nseducunt. O quot pauperes Christiani in\nrure habitant, qui ob ignorantiam suorũ\nSacer-\n\nSacerdotũ quid Christianũ deceat, igno-\nrant. Jnter haec nemo est, qui animaduer\ntat, nemo qui periculum animarũ doleat,\nnemo qui remedium apponat. Omnes que\nterrena sunt, omnes sua querũt,\nomnes ad lucra currunt. Sed quid ista\nad nos? Vnusquisque suo Domino stat aut\ncadit. Et quãuis ad me non pertineat ista\ncorrigere, non possum tamen dolere,\nvidens omne malum in Ecclesia ex igno-\nrantia Sacerdotũ procedere. Quis enim\nnon doleat illos mandata nescire, qui con\nstituti sunt alios instruere? Ecce nulla in\nordinandis Sacerdotibus scientia quaeri-\ntur, non vocati accedere permittuntur,\nnunꝗ̈ vita ordinandum, vt in primis\noportuerat, discutitur. Propterea popu-\nlus Christianus funibus peccatorum ca-\nptiuus abducitur, cõcordia fraternae dile\nctionis violatur. Sacerdotes nostri mun\ndanis\n\nEdanis cupiditatibus effluunt , corrigere vitiofos non pręsumũt : quia se deliquisse in maioribus agnoscunt . Pauci etenim sunt , qui moribus sanctis in Ecclesia núc fulgeant , pauci com̃issum sibi gregem verbo exemplo debitè informant . Nec mi rum si minores vacent à studio scriptura rum , cùm inter Praelatos paucos inuenias , qui veterum exemplis inhaereant . Eliguntur enim vt plurimū non doctiores . Codices scripturarum aut nullos habent , aut paucos , quippe qui odio scientiam persequútur . Nihil adeò Ecclesiasticam dignitatẽ minuit , contemptibilem reddit , sicut ignorãtia Praelatorũ . Cum olim Episcopi , Abbates , ac caeteri Praelati Sacerdotes animű scripturis intenderét , non tam facilis criminibus et peccatis\n\npeccatis aditus patebat. Amor etenim ac\nscientia scripturarum, mundum docent\ncontẽnere, vitia fugere, virtutes sacra-\ntissimas amare. Quamdiu populus Isra-\neliticus permansit in lege Domini, nulla\npraeualuit contra eos potestas inimici. At\npostquam legis scientiam abiecit, multis\naduersitatibus subditus fuit. Dicit enim\nscriptura: Quoniam non habuerunt sapi-\nentiam, perierunt propter suam insipien-\ntiam. Hodie quoque Sacerdotes, Ecclesia-\nrumq́; rectores in magno numero sunt,\nsed pauci eorum scientiam legis et scri-\npturã aduertunt. Et quia (sicut Dñs\nꝑ Prophetã loquitur) Sacerdotes notitiã\nlegis abiecerunt, propterea contẽptibiles\nin populo facti sunt. Clamant quidem in\ntribulatione ad Dominum, sed non exau\ndit eos: quoniam qui auertit aures suas\nne audiat legem, oratio eius erit execrabi\nlis.\nE 4","segment":12,"source":{"mapping_precision":"exact","pages":[{"label":"67","number":67},{"label":"68","number":68},{"label":"69","number":69},{"label":"70","number":70},{"label":"71","number":71}]}},{"duplicate_of":null,"english_available":true,"html_id":"seg-13","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0013","latin":"lis. Non ergo mirentur Sacerdotes, quòd contemnunt laici, quoniam ipsi spernunt mandata Chri. Timeo autem uehemēter, in breui contra clerum grauiora futura. Sed de his hactenus. Tu verò, non quid alij faciant, sed quid tibi fit faciendum, considera. Multi enim ad sacerdotium in Ecclesia Dei uocati funt, pauci vero electi. Summopere igitur curandum nobis eft, vt qui in fortē Domini affciscimur, etiam eligamur. Quid prodeft hic sacerdotio breuiffimo tẽpore fungi, fi separari contingat à confpectu Dei? Nihil ergo melius, quàm incoelestibus defiderium figere, facrae lectionis ftudio infiftere, prae sentia pro Dei amore spernere, futura cogitare. Hinc Petrus in aurora dicit: Nil homini melius, quàm fi diuina legendo, figat ibi mentem, quò fibi vita venit. Legendis itaque fcripturis, continuũ ftudium\n\ndium impendendum est: quia lectio alit mentẽ, & fomẽta ministrat virtutibus.\nVt ergo precium temporis non amittas,\nSacras legito scripturas, scribe libros, de-\nuotis orationibus insta, suis temporibus\netiam manibus labora. Non erubescas di\nscere quod ignoras : quia tunc alios pote-\nris vtiliter instauere , si à doctioribus\nsemp petas informari. Non te pudeat no-\nmen subire discipuli, si pertingere cupias\nad honorem magisterij. Spiritus etenim\nSanctus, qui docet hominem scientiam,\nhumilitatis amator est. Quando sedes ad\nmensam vt cibum capias, prius sacris li\nteris insonandum memineris, quatenus\nnimè defraudetur. In Toletano quippe\nConcilio ita legitur: Pro reuerentia Dei\nSacerdotũ id vniuersa constituit Sy-\nnodus, Vt qđ solent crebro mensis ociosae\nfabulae\n\nfabulae interponi, in omni sacerdotali conuiuio lectio diuinarum scripturarum misceatur. Per hoc enim et animę aedificãtur ad bonum, & fabulae non de necessitate prohibentur. Verbũ enim Dei, escaspiritus est: quia non in solo pane viuit homo, sed in omni verbo, quod proceditde ore Dei. Maximam antiqui patres et Sacerdotes diligẽtiam scripturis sanctisimpenderunt, vt et mentem salubriterpascerent, & posteritati ad eruditionem vtilia prouiderent.\nJstorum vestigijsinhaereamus,\nvt digni coram Deo\nministri inuenirimereamur.\nDE AVA-\n\nDE AVARITIA ET\nCVPIDITATE\nfugienda.\nCaput quintum.\nQVamquam in principio ser-\nmonis nostri cõtra auaritiã\ncupiditatem disputaue-\nrimus, certa nihilominus\nratione ducimur, vt etiam in hoc loco de\nhac ipsare iterum eloquamur. Nunquam\nenim satis contra hoc vitium agitur, nisi\ncùm funditus extirpatur. Sciens autem\nSaluator noster, quàm difficile fit diuitẽ\nintrare in regnum Dei, sequentibus se\ndixit: Nisi quis renunciauerit omnibus\nque possidet, non potest meus esse discipu-\nlus. Hinc Psalmista nos admonet, dicẽs:\nDiuitiae si affluant, nolite cor apponere.\nEt Apostolus dicit: Habētes victum et amicet-\n\namictum, his contenti simus. Quid am-\nplius quęrimus, qui ministri Dei sumus?\nTurpis est in Sacerdote Dei, cupiditas,\nturpis auaritia, & auri continua fames\ndamnabilis. Tu ergo (frater amantissi-\nme) si cupis in libertate spiritus viuere,\nnoli pecunias perituras quęrere, diuitias\nnoli amare. Facta cogitatum tuum in Do\nmino, & ipse te enutriet, ipse custodiet. Nec uolo vt pro-\nuidentiam domesticam penitus abijcias,\nsed ne per auaritiam excedas. Radix\nomniuũ malorũ cupiditas est, que homi-\nnem non sinit Deo in libertate spiritus vj\nuere: sed mentem semper torquet curis\namaris, nec permittit eum aliunde quàm\nde diuitijs cogitare. Mediocritas autem\nres tutissima est, que nec egestate premi-\ntur, nec abundatia in superbiã eleuatur.\nVidemus inter Sacerdotes Dei, cultores\nidolorum,\n\nidolorum, qui pecunijs congregandis sem\nper inuigilant, qui auaritiae student, qui\nde aeterna vita nihil aut parum cogitant.\nViuunt tanꝗ nati sint ad quaestum, pie-\ntatem in pauperes longè abijciunt, nihil\naliud quàm aurum quaerere &; inuenire\nconcupiscunt. Videres inter illos quosdã\nauaros miseros diuites, quibus rerum\ntemporalium copia et abundantiae maxi-\nma est, sed facultas vtendi acquisitis de-\nest. Omnibus diebus, quibus versantur\nin terra miserè viuunt, comedere et bi-\nbere pro necessitate corporis non praesu-\nmunt, augere ad aceruum pecunie semp̃\naliquid concupiscunt. Lucris inuigilant,\nde animarum salute nihil penitus curant.\nPlus dolent de amisso denario, quàm si\nlaecem ex sibi commißis anime perirent.\nSed mirum non est si alienam negligat, ꝗ́\npropriam damnat. Quisquis enim cor\nsuum","segment":13,"source":{"mapping_precision":"exact","pages":[{"label":"72","number":72},{"label":"73","number":73},{"label":"74","number":74},{"label":"75","number":75},{"label":"76","number":76},{"label":"77","number":77}]}},{"duplicate_of":null,"english_available":true,"html_id":"seg-14","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0014","latin":"suum auaritię cupiditati semel submi-\nserit, nunꝗ̈ aut rarò liber erit. Semper\nad maiora lucra pecuniarum aestuat, ad\naugmẽtum auri semper anhelat, tantoq́;\ncrescit habendi desiderium, quantò conti-\ngerit creuisse nummum. Jam deinceps\nvnum beneficium quantumlibet pingue\nnon sufficit, pro impetrandis etiam alijs\nSacerdos auarus discurrit, ꝑ fas nefasq́;\nnancisci laborat, q̃ improbè concupiscit.\nCurrit interea ad sedem Apostolicam, pe-\ntitionis suę narrat causam, quę si cum ue\nritate discutitur, falsa protinus inueni-\ntur. Prębendas deinde vnus homo mul\ntas impetrat, curam ouium mercenarys\nlocat, lanam lac de ouibus recipit, sed\ngregem pascere contemnit. Vae (inquit\nPropheta) pastoribus, qui pascunt semet\nipsos. Putant se à noxa liberos, qui per\ndispensationem summi Pontificis multabenefi-\n\nbeneficia obtinent: sed quid requiratur ad istam impetrationem, non pensant.\nTu autem sta, & noli trãsgredi terminos antiquos,\nquos posuerunt patres tui, sed pone concupiscentiae modum,\nne cadas in peccatum. Vno beneficio, quod tibi pro mediocritate tui status sufficit,\nte volo esse contentũ, ne si plura sine iusta necessitate susceperis,\ngrauius coram Deo inde iudiceris. Noli multitudinem secus agentium in exemplũ assumere,\nnoli per latã viam peccantium incedere, si ad vitam voles peruenire.\nQui altari viovat: qui autem pascere oues negligit,\nlanam et lac ab eis qua temeritate requirit?\nInstituta sunt Ecclesiastica beneficia pro sustentatione eorum,\nq̃ eis deseruiunt, non ad auaritiam illorum,\ndignus est recipere sustentationem. Qui autem\n\nautem fugit onus solicitudinis, non sine\nculpa percipit emolumentum lactis. Si\nergo Christi oues pascere renuis, lanam\nlac ab eis minimè quesieris. Nõ enim\npropter pastorem oues, sed propter oues\npastor constitutus est. Neque cura anima-\nrum appetenda est, vt habeantur alimẽ-\nta: sed alimenta potius requirenda sunt,\nvt debita ouibus adhibeatur cura. Sed à\nmultis nunc ordo peruertitur, qui praela-\naturas beneficia idcirco appetunt, vt\nin arca pecunias habeant, non vt animas\npro Dei amore pascant. O pastor idolũ,\nquàm miserè decipis temetipsum. Curas\ntantùm vt comedas, qui vt curare ani-\nmas posses comedere debueras. Cupidi-\ntas radix malorum omnium est, mater\ntransgressionis, magistra nocendi, auriga\nmalitię, inuentrix doli, promotrix men-\ndacij. Sacrilegia com̃ittit furta. prae-\ndas agit\n\ndas agit &; incẽdia, bella gerit &; homi-\ncidia. Denique sola cupiditas est, quae si-\nmoniacè homines emere, & vendere do\ncuit, iniquè petit et recipit, iniustè nego-\ntiatur, dolis innitur, mendacio et per-\niurio fouetur. Ipsa est quae fidem frangit,\ndissoluit pactũ, testimoniũ corrumpit, &\nviolat iuramentũ. Charitatẽ quoque inter\nDeum et hominem extinguit cupiditas,\nfraternam dilectionem interrumpit, con-\ncordiam turbat, infatuat consiliũ, aequi-\ntatis peruertit iudicium, destruit unita-\ntem. Si ergo te dignum Dei ministrum\nexhibere desideras, hanc omniũ malorum\nradicem de corde quantocyus euellas.\nBreuis est oĩs terrenarum opum possessio,\nbreuis vitae mortalis actio, instans quo-\ntidiè ad mortem humani generis ꝓcessio.\nCur ergo moraris pro Dei amore contem-\nnere, que morte interceptus cogéris in\nF breui\n\nbreui vel inuitus relinquere? Non enim habemus hîc manentem ciuitatem , sed futuraminq́;rimus. Vbi thesaurus tuus est , ibi et cor tuum erit. Noli peraturas mundi diuitias quęrere , noli cor tuum auaritię vinculis obligare. Decet enim Sacerdotem Christi , esse discipulũ mitem , & misericordem,\nqui aliena non cupiat,\nsed in pauperes sua largiter distri buat.\nDE HONE-\n\nDE HONESTA\nCONVERSATIONE\nSacerdotũ exteriori.\nCaput sextum.\n\nCONsidera nunc qualẽ con-\nuersationẽ tuam debeas in-\nstituere, qualemq́; te opor-\nteat viuere, vt omnipotẽti\nDeo, cuius ministeres, in toto corde va\nleas placere. Quantum verò ad internã\nconuersationẽ pertinet, oportet vt mun-\ndus et amp; purus in conscientia fulgeas, qui\ncoram Domino ministras. Dicit enim ad\nSacerdotes Propheta Domini: Sanctifi-\ncamini, qui fertis vasa Domini. Et Do\nminus dicit: Lauamini, mundi estote,\nauferte malũ cogitationũ uestrarũ ab ocu-\nlis meis, quiescite peruerse agere, discite\nbenefacere, dicit Dominus omnipotens.\n\nF 2 Quantũ","segment":14,"source":{"mapping_precision":"exact","pages":[{"label":"78","number":78},{"label":"79","number":79},{"label":"80","number":80},{"label":"81","number":81},{"label":"82","number":82},{"label":"83","number":83}]}},{"duplicate_of":null,"english_available":true,"html_id":"seg-15","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0015","latin":"Quantum verò ad exteriorem hominem pertinet, Apostolus Episcopum instruiens dicit: Oportet Episcopum irreprehensi-bilem esse, sobrium, pudicum, benignum, ornatum moribus, hospitalem, docibilem.\nQuicquid autem Episcopo in hoc loco pręcipitur, etiam cęteris Pręlatis et Presby teris mandatur. Et primùm qđem cũm dicit, eum oportere esse irreprehẽsibilem,\nab omnibus vitijs et diffamationibus populi pronunciat immunem. Vita quip-pe Sacerdotis, populo in exemplum pro- ponitur, que lucernae comparatur, vt quemadmodum lux lucet in tenebris. Dicit enim in Euangelio Dominus : Sic lux vestra coram hominibus luceat, vt videant opera vestra bona, & glorifi-cent patrẽ vestrũ qui est in coelis. Tunc autẽ Sacerdos dignè Deo ambulat, ꝙquan doo vi-\n\ndo uitam suambonis &; sanctis operibus\nquotidiè exornat, membra sua quae\nsunt super terram, pro Christi amore mor\ntificat. Seruus namque Domini est: hocq́;\npotissimum ab eo exigitur, vt volunta-\ntem Dei verbis factis operetur. Ne-\nmo autem voluntatem Dei perficit, nisi\nqui vitijs expulsis, cor suum habitaculũ\nvirtutum facit. Caue ne sponsam Christi\nEcclesiam per vitae turpitudinẽ macules,\ncaue ne per malum exemplum aliquem\nscandalizes: quia quotquot tuo vitio in\npeccatũ duxeris, pro tot in supplicio cru\nciaberis. Rarus videaris in publico, in\ndomo assuesce consistere, lectionibus\nvacare. Esto mente corpore quietus,\nnoli per vicos vicinorum domos di-\nscurrere, noli fabulis rusticorũ interesse.\nMinuit enim praesentia famam, parit\nin populo sacerdotis familiaritas contemptum.\n\nptum. Rarus autem egressus in publicũ,\nmagnam tibi in plebe reuerentiam matu-\nritatis exhibebit. Ita viue, vt tuo ex-\nemplo aedificentur multi. In medio senio-\nrum pauca loquaris: q̃ loquacitas saepe\n reprehenditur, vbi taciturnitas laudãt.\nEnimuerò inter senes, iuuenem audire\ndecet, non loqui. Non appetas in Sacerdo-\ntum collegio videri sapiens, ne coram eis\nvelut insipiẽs confundaris. Non siss ver-\nbosus et arrogans, responde cum humili-\ntate et benevolentia interrogatus, & ne\nfueris more rabularum dum loquerris in\nvoce clamosus. Risum excussum non di-\nligas, & ab omni leuitate inhoncpsta te\nsemper et vbique conserues. Jnutildes ser-\nmones et vana verba deuita, scĩeens dē\nomni verbo ocioso, ꝙ loquitus fũueris,\nDEO te rationem esse redditurum. Si\nsermo tuus moderatus et parcus, longe\ndesi\n\ndesit omne mendaciũ, & ne frustra fiat\niuramentũ. Noli tabernas cum rusticis-\ningredi: qa id tuę nõ licet honestati. Val-\nde namque incongruum est, vt is qui pec-\ncatores debet arguere, per suam praesen-\ntiam peccatis se patronũ velit exhibere.\nA sanctis enim patribus ingressus taber-\nnarum Sacerdotibus interdicitur, nisi in\nitinere constituantur. Ignominiosum est\nSacerdotem Dei cum rusticis tabernam\ningredi, & os quod Deo consecratum est,\nimpuris loquutionibus foedari. Facilè\npraedicantis sermo contemnitur, si inter\nrusticos familiariter effundatur. Incipi-\nent te ex cōsuetudine familiaritatis con-\ntemnere, & quasi ex suis vnũ ẽstimare.\nNulla enim reuerentia maioribus impen-\nditur, si inter subditos eorum vita angu\nstetur. Oportet eum qui presidet, quadã\nreuerentia maturitis omnes excellere,\nF 4 et nimi-\n\n&amp; nimiam subditorum familiaritatem\n\nsapienter declinare. Enimuerò auctorita\n\ntis praeeminentia frangitur, dum subie¬\n\nctorum actibus indiscretè commiscetur.\n\nNulli detrahas, nec aduersus aliquẽ scan\n\ndalum sumas. Turpe est sacerdoti, lin¬\n\nguam suam detractione polluere, quae in\n\naltari constituta est, pro omnibus orare.\n\nNeque aurem prebeas detractionibus: q̃a\n\ndetractor et amp; libens auditor, pari conde¬\n\nmnatione digni sunt. Alter enim diabolũ\n\nportat in lingua, alter in aure. Discat qui\n\nhuiufmodi est, non facilè detrahere, cùm\n\nte viderit inuitũ audire. Non sis citatus\n\nin lingua, &amp; in consortio detractorum ne\n\nsteteris: q̃a omnipotẽti Deo odibiles sunt.\n\nSepi aures tuas spinis, ne audias verba\n\ndetractorum. Nullum ex ore tuo menda¬\n\ncium prodeat, sermo turpis ex te nõ pro¬\n\ncedat: sed esto custos linguę tuae, ne offen¬\n\ndas im","segment":15,"source":{"mapping_precision":"exact","pages":[{"label":"84","number":84},{"label":"85","number":85},{"label":"86","number":86},{"label":"87","number":87},{"label":"88","number":88}]}},{"duplicate_of":null,"english_available":true,"html_id":"seg-16","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0016","latin":"das in sermone. Non sis acidiosus et pi-\nger, neque somno inertiae deditus, sed\nin feruore sancti Spũs iugiter accensus.\nFrugalitatem hospitalitis nõ negligas,\npauperibus peregrinis qua potes sedu\nlitate misericorditer occurras, sciens hoc\nSacerdotis esse propriũ, vt curam gerat\negenorum. Aurum habeto non ut serues,\nsed vt in eleemosynam pauperum eroges.\nLaudent te pauperũ esuriẽtium viscera,\nnon diuitum ructantium conuiua. Sit\nmensa tua cum pauperibus egenis, qđ\nin talibus Chrũs suscipitur, curia coe-\nlestis honoratur. Conuiua diuitum sup-\nborum, maximè potentiũ deuita, in qui-\nbus de animarum salute nihil agitur,\nde spirituali conuersatione nihil penitus\ntractatur. Vestitus tuus sit honestus, non\npreciosus. In faciendis eleemosynis noli\nab hominibus gloriam quaerere, sed à solo\nF5 DEO\n\nDEO laudem et mercedem expectare.\nEsto pater pauperũ, & tutor orphanorũ.\nIncõsolatus à te pauper nullus abscedat.\nNon sis percussor neque rixosus in populo,\nneminem iniuriosè laedas, sed omnibus,\nquãtum praeuales, benefacito, etiam ini-\nmicis. Ne peccatores vnquã lactaueris,\nsed increpa tamꝗ̈ auctoritatem à DEO\nconsecutus. Non sis percussor conscientia-\nrum plebis tibi commissae, neque verbum\nDei indiscretè proferas, sed cum modera\ntione pietatis. Poenitentibus esto miseri-\ncors, & calamũ quassatũ noli conterere,\nsciens quòd infirmoriũ curam susceperis,\nnon fortium. Melius est enim poenitẽte\ncum pietate ad purgatoriũ mittere, quàm\nausteritate confessoris desperate ad in-\nfernum destinare. Horas tuas canonicas\ncum reuerentia et deuotione, constitutis\nab Ecclesia temporibus, orare non negli-\ngas.\n7\n\ngas. Horas quoque beatae Mariae semper\nvirginis, vigilias defunctorũ, cum cae-\nteris ex ordine sacerdotali debitis, legere\nnon omitas. Domus tuae curam habe cum\ntimore Dei: familiam si habueris, mode-\nstiam et honestatem seruare verbo per-\nsuade et exemplo. Enimuerò Sacerdotis\nopinionem laedit in plebe, quando de do-\nmesticis eius male loquitur populus. Ser-\nmo tuus testimonio roboretur scriptura-\nrum, quia quicquid praeter scripturas\nsanctas precipitur, eadem facilitate con-\ntemnitur, qua probatur. Nolo te imitari\neos, qui sine eruditione in Ecclesia praedi-\ncant, qui fabulas et somniorum phan-\ntasmata crebro allegant, & mysteria di-\nuinarum scripturarum ignorant. Rabulę\ngarruliq́; Sacerdotes, sine ratione loqué-\ntes, populum non aedificãt, sed vanis ser-\nmonibus ac fabulis Aesopianis in admi-\nrationem\n\nratione sui trahere laborat. Stulta enim et dãnabilis abusio est, omissiones scripturis et Euãgelio, populum Christianum Aesopi fabulas docere, & gesta conficta Romanorum. Nec mireris, si populus imperitus ista libentius audit quàm scripturas; cùm hoc legas prędixisse Apostolum. Erit (inquit) tempus cum sanam doctrinam non sustinebunt, sed ad sua desideria coaceruabunt sibi magistros prurientes au-ribus, & à veritate quidẽ auditũ auertent, ad fabulas autem conuertentur.\nHinc Hieronymus ait: Volvere verba et celeritate dicendi apud imperiũ vulgus admirationem suę facere, indoctorũ hominum est. Attrita frons interp̃tatur saepè quod nescit, & cum alijs suas erit, sibi quoque usurpat scientiam, quam non habet. Nihil tàm facilè, quàm vilemple beculam et indoctam concionem linguae volubi-\n\nvolubilitate decipere, quę quicquid non intelligit, plus admiratur. Tu autem lo- quere quae decent sanam doctrinam, & imperitorum applausum noli quaerere, si locum inter doctos cupis inuenire. Curã animarũ imprudẽter noli cõcupiscere, ni- si prius te alios secundũ Ecclesiasti cam sanctione iustè didiceris gubernare. Magisteriũ etenim populi multis ꝑiculis subijcitur, quotidianis anguistijs tribulatur. Oportet enim rectorem anima rum sine crimine esse, sicut Dei dispensatorum, non iracundum, turpis lucri cupidum, sobrium, iustum, be- nignum, amplectẽtem qui secundũ doctrina est fidelem sermonem, vt potẽs sit exhortari in doctrina sana, eos q̃ contradicunt, arguere. Oportet eum qui rector","segment":16,"source":{"mapping_precision":"exact","pages":[{"label":"89","number":89},{"label":"90","number":90},{"label":"91","number":91},{"label":"92","number":92},{"label":"93","number":93}]}},{"duplicate_of":null,"english_available":true,"html_id":"seg-17","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0017","latin":"rector animarum constitutus est, non mi-\nnus exemplo docere quàm sermone. Ac-\ncusare quidem auaritiam &; latro potest,\nemendare verò non, nisi qui facit quod\ndocet. Delicatus magister est, qui pleno\nventre de ieiunio disputat. Prius ergo\nvita requirenda est, quam doctrina: ꝗa\nplenius opere docetur, quàm sermone.\nExcellentiffimum namq́; docendi genus\nest, demonstratio exempli. Et Dominus\nquidem IESVS prius fecit, postea do-\ncuit. Maxima enim auctoritate in docen-\ndo utitur, cuius sermo attestatione operis\ncomprobatur. Facilè à subditis sermo\nrectoris perficitur, si morum honestate\nfulciatur. Qui autem bene docens, male\nviuit, proprij se oris sententia perimit,\n&; à mala institutione subiectos non con-\nuertit. Simul attende, quàm periculosa\nfit cura animarũ, maximè his temporib̓.\nquãdo\n\nquãdo vbique abundat iniquitas, & cha\nritas multorũ refriguit. Dies enim mali\nsunt, et homines ad iustitiã tardi, totusque\nmũdus in maligno positus, & rara fides\nin terra. Inter haec verbũ Dei à populo\ndespicitur, Ch̃rianę religionis institutio\nnegligitur, auctoritas sacerdotalis con-\ntemnitur. Vita laicalis multis peccatis\net sceleribus obnoxia, poenitię reme-\ndia negligit, dolis fraudibus intendit,\nmonita Sacerdotum contemnit. Et nisi\nrector animarum, populo sibi commißò\nscelera eorum et debitas peccatoribus\npoenas solicitè annunciauerit, coram Deo\netiam sanguinis eorum reus erit. Et post\nhęc adducet Deus cuncta in iudiciũ, vbi\npastor animarum pro singulis rationem\nreddere cogitur, si negligens in hoc\nmundo extitit, grauius dãnatur. Tutius\nergo est curam regimen animarum hu\nmiliter\n\nmiliter fugere, quā arrogāter vsurparē.\nSi enim vnusquisque in illo tremendo iu-\ndicio rationem de sua vita reddere vix\nsufficit, quomodo ꝓ tot millibus sibi com-\nmissis respondebit? O quam bene viuit,\nqui sibi viuit. Bonum iucundumq́; vi-\ndetur apud homines, Episcopū, Abbatem,\nPastorem, vel quemlibet Prelatum, in\nhoc saeculo viuere: sed quā terribilis sit\nexitus negligentis, q̃s sufficiet cogitare?\nEtenim iudicium durissimum fiet in eos q̄\npraesunt, & potentes potenter tormenta\npatientur. Benè transit qui simpliciter\nviuit, cui nihil terreni honoris committitur,\nCura etenim pastoralis nunꝗ̈ est\nsine periculo, quādiu viuitur in hoc mun\ndo. Omnium quoque periculum maxi-\nmum est, cum separata per mortem à cor-\npore anima, sumno pastor DEO, pastor\nterrenus\n\nterrenus ad rationem ponendam fuerit\npręsentandus. Hic iam articulus vltimę\ndamnationis imminet, vbi ratio villi-\ncationis malè dispẽsatae exigitur, & san-\nguis ouium multarum de vnius Pastoris\nmanu requiritur. Quid tunc Pastor im-\nperitus respondere ad obiecta poterit, qui\nin cura ouium negligẽs fuit? Obmutescat\nnecesse est, quia quod respondeat, non\nhabet. Si ergo frater ad curam animarũ\nte idoneum existimas, si Ecclesiam Mer-\nnicẽsem regere paras, scito te pro his ad-\nducendum in iudicium, & pro vitae me-\nrito gloriam suscepturum vel tormentũ.\nSed crede mihi, securus moritur, qui\nomissis aliorum curis, sibi soli in Dei ti-\nmore cõuersatur. Cui enim multum com-\nmittitur, etiam multum ab eo exigetur.\nSacerdos maximè curam habens anima-\nrum, Dei pręco est, vt populo volunta-\ntem om-\n\ntem omnipotentis nunciet, & peccantes\nin lege Domini per increpationis verba\ncuret. Oportet ergo vt doctus et constã-\ntissimus sit, ne aut ꝑ ignorantiã defluat,\naut per inconstantiam odia peruerforum\npertimescat. Turpe est enim propter me-\ntum populi, tacere sermones Dei. Modico\nvino Sacerdoti vtendum est, ne si pota-\ntionibus vacat, opprobriũ in populo fiat.\nVinolẽtos enim Sacerdotes et Apostolus\ndamnat, & ab accessu altaris vetus lex\nprohibet. In Agathensi quoque Concilio ita\nlegitur: Ante omnia à clericis vitetur\nebrietas, quae omnium vitiorum fomes\nac nutrix est. Itaque eum, quem ebriosum\nfuisse constiterit, vt ordo patitur, aut\ntriginta dierum spacio à comunione sub-\nmoueatur, aut corporali subdatur suppli-\ncio. Luxuriosa enim res est vinum, &\ncontumeliosa ebrietas: omnis qui miscet̃ his,\nhis,","segment":17,"source":{"mapping_precision":"exact","pages":[{"label":"94","number":94},{"label":"95","number":95},{"label":"96","number":96},{"label":"97","number":97},{"label":"98","number":98}]}},{"duplicate_of":null,"english_available":true,"html_id":"seg-18","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0018","latin":"his, nō erit sapiēs. Qui absque vino ardet,\nardore adolescētiae, & inflamatur calore\nsanguinis, valido est corpore, vinū\nvt venenū fugiat: ne multiplici incēdio\nsuffocatus, in coenum luxuriae cadat.\nStomachus vino aestuans, lbidinem con\ncitat, sensum hebetat, caput totum\ncorpus debilitat. Prouerbio quoque dicit̃:\nPinguis venter gignit sensum tenuem.\nCum ergo ad conuiuia Sacerdotum uoca-\ntus accedis, non obliuiscaris honestatis\nclericalis, sed modestum caue, ne aut\nlinguam aut aures prurientes, id\nest, ne aut ipse detrahas, aut detrahenti-\nbus auditum accommodes. Scito qͥa cun-\ncta quae de alijs loqueris, in temetipsum\nretorquēda sunt, in his ipsis fortè re-\nprehendēdus eris, quę in alijs arguebas.\nSed forsitan dices: Referentibus iniuriā\nfacere\n\nfacere nō possum: quia inuanum nititur,\nquisquis omnium obstruere labia medita\ntur: quidergo aliori m detractio ad me?\nnumquid ego prohibere homines possum,\nne loquantur? Sed quēadmodū superius\ndiximus, ita te coram detractore exhi-\nbeas, vt discat nulli detrahere, cùm te\nviderit non libēter que loquitur, audire.\nCum detractoribus (ait Salomō) ne com-\nmiscearis, quoniam repente veniet per-\nditio eorum: Et ruinam viriusque quis\nnouit? Tam illius videlicet qui detrahit,\nquàm eius qui aurem accōmodat detra-\nhenti. Esto moribus et amp; prouidus, silen-\ntio et amp; taciturnitate discretus. In perscrip-\ntandis mysterijs scripturarū sedulus esto,\n&amp;) si qđ dubietatis legēti occurrerit,\nad interpretationes seniorum noueris re-\nferendum. Habes in vicino antiquissimę\nurbis\n\n43\nUrbis Treuerorum gymnasium, in quo\ncopia doctorum est, ad quos in quastionũ\nambiguitate poteris habere recursum.\nNeque aurum tibi charius sit, quàm scien-\ntia: quia sapientiae fructus aeternus est,\nvsus vero diuitiarum breuis et momen\ntaneus. Nemo sit, qui salutare studium\nprohibeat, non mater, non cognatus, non soror: tu fac opus Euange-\nliste, disce ꝙ doceas, ne pastor idolum\nexistas. Vnus es et secundũ non habes:\ncui ergo diuitias thesaurizares? Viue\ntemperatè, nuptias mentem virtu-\ntibus exuūt, bursam nummis vacuã\nreddunt. Compara tibi de oblatis eleemo\nsynis diuinae scripturae codices, quorum\nassidua lectione doctus, populum com̃ißũ\ndignè possis instruere, temetipsum per\ncontemplationẽ ad coelestia eleuare. Ama\nG 3 scientiã\n\nscientiam scripturarum, & coram DEO et amp; hominibus exaltabit te. Noli consen-\ntire voluptatibus carnis, impetum\nfuroris reprime, & mortis\nne vnquam obli-\nuiscaris.\nQVALIS DEBEAT ESSE\nSACERDOS IN CON-\nuersatione interna.\nCaput septimum.\nQVO niam verò non sufficit\nministro Christi honestam\ncoram hominibus cõuersa-\ntionem ducere, nisi coram\nDeo ab omni scelere mundus studeat ap-\nparere, exhortor te vt cor tuum in timo-\nre omnipotentis dirigas, & nullas vnꝗ̈\ncontra Deũ cogitationes admittas. Opor-\ntet enĩ\n\ntet enim Sacerdotẽ Dei sanctum esse mẽte\ncorpore, & mundum in cogitatione.\nHinc Dominus dicit: Sancti estote, quo-\nniam ego sanctus sum, Dñs Deus uester,\nqui sanctifico vos. Et Petrus Archipo-\nstolus dicit: Vos genus electum, regale\nsacerdotium, gens sancta, populus acqui-\nfitionis, vt virtutes annuncietis eius, q̃\nde tenebris vos vocauit, in admirabile\nlumen suum. Primum in corde tuo locum\ncharitas obtineat, quae plenitudo legis\nest, & conffmatio Prophetarum. Om-\nnium enim virtutũ maxima est charitas,\nquę in dilectione Dei et proximi cõsistit.\nDeus autem ex toto corde propter se dili-\ngendus est, & proximus propter Deum.\nNemo autem veraciter Deum diligit, si\nin fide ꝓximũ odit. Christus enim Deus\nhomo est. Totum ergo Christum non\ndiligit, qui hominem odit. Nullum opus\nbonum","segment":18,"source":{"mapping_precision":"exact","pages":[{"label":"99","number":99},{"label":"100","number":100},{"label":"101","number":101},{"label":"102","number":102},{"label":"103","number":103},{"label":"104","number":104}]}},{"duplicate_of":null,"english_available":true,"html_id":"seg-19","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0019","latin":"bonum Deus accipit, nisi quod flamma\ncharitatis in ara cordis accendit: Chari-\ntas enim virtutum omniũ obtinet prin-\ncipatum. Hanc humilitas sequitur, quae\nvirtutum custos memoratur. Huius ta-\nmen est eminẽtia virtutis, vt omnis alia\ncitò pereat, nisi humilitatis fundamento\nroboretur. Dicit enim sanctus Papa Gre-\ngorius: Qui sine humilitate virtutes\ncongregat, quasi puluerem in ventũ por-\ntat. Vnde enim ferre aliquid cernitur,\ninde grauius caecatur. Maximum ergo\nSacerdotis ornamentum charitas est, &\npreciosissimum in veste illius margaritũ,\nhumilitas. Tu quoque (frater) has gemi-\nnas in te virtutes exprime, & fructuo-\nsus in Ecclesia Dei prędicator eris. Quic\nquid dixeris, facilè persuadebis audito-\nribus, si charitatẽ habeas\nin corde, seduloq́; demonstres in opere.\nLocum\n\nLocum nõ habeat in corde tuo maledicta\nambitio, quae adeò mentem, quam semel\ninuaserit, excaecat, vt Dei salutis q́; pro-\npriae obliuionẽ inducat. Esto Christianus\namator hominum, & hostis vitiorum.\nSerua mandata Dei, & Ecclesiasticas\nSanctiones noli negligere. Honora omnes\nhomines propter Deum, neminẽ vnꝗ̃\nduxeris contemendum. Quod tibi fieri\nnon uis, alteri ne feceris. Sol non occidat\nSuper iracundiam tuam. Diuitum adula-\ntiones fugito, peccatores ne aliquãdo\npalpaueris. Abnega temetipsum deside-\nrijs tuis, vt discipulus Christi efficiaris.\nCastiga corpus tuum, iuxta Apostolum in\nSertutem redigens, delicias sperne, ca-\nstum ama ieiiuiũ. Piys esto in pauperes,\nesurientem ciba, nudum vesti, infirmum\nVisita, captiuum libera, consolare triste,\nSepeli mortuum. Mundum noli diligere,\ndiuitias\n\ndiuitias noli quaerere , post vanitatẽ nolĩcurrere . Nemo enim militans Deo negotijs secularibus se implicat . Nemini fece-ris iniuriã , sed disce patiẽter ferre illatã ,exemplo Dñi tui , qui pendens in cruce ,ꝓpersectoribus suis exorauit , vt non perirẽt . Pacem cum omnibus hominibus habeas , concordiam et vnanimitate mdũtaxat cum deuotis . Non sis superbus et arrogans , non vinolentus et multũ edax , non ob-loquutor et temerariè quẽquã iudicãs . Custodi actus tuos omni hora , & memo-ria futurorum in cogitatione tua semper versetur . Dicit enim scriptura : Fili memorare nouissima tua , & in aeternũ non peccabis . Semper itaque moriturum te co-gita, diem iudicij time, inferni tormenta expauiesce. Si haec feceris, omnes tentati-ones carnis facilè superabis . Sperne vo-lupta-\n\nluptates mūdi, vt ad supernę foelicitatis\ngaudia valeas introire gaudens. Noli\ndecipere animam tuam: nemo potest hic\ngaudere cum mundo, & postea regnare\ncum Christo. Per multas enim tribulati-\nones, oportet nos intrare in regnum Dei.\nSpretis itaque praesentibus, omni deside-\nrio ad aeterna gaudia festinemus. Omni\ncustodia serua cor tuum, quoniā ex ipso\nvita procedit. Si aliquo delicto pręoccu-\npatus fueris, non tardes poenitẽtiae reme-\ndia quęrere, & per veram contritionem\nte in confessione expurgare. Contēde per\nangustã viam ad vitam ingredi, hoc est,\ncarnis desideria non perficere, mundum\nodire, spiritu viuere. Ad militandũ Deo\ncontra victoriã quiescere, noli à pugna desiste-\nre:quia nemo coronabitur nisi vīctor.\nIn hac autem vita non est certa victo-\nria,\n\nria, sed continua pugna. Qui perseuera-\nuerit vsque in finem, saluus erit. In fine\nsuo comprobabitur vir. Militia est vita\nhominis super terram. Miles enim sum̃i\nRegis es, non licet tibi agonem illius de-\nserere. Bonus miles Regem suũ quocūque\nierit, sequitur. Vbi ergo est Rex tuus?\nIn caelo: Cur illum non sequeris? Quid\nfacis in terra, si miles es Regis superni\ncoelestis? Quare Dominũ tuum non se-\nqueris? Ipse enim dicit: Qui mihi mini-\nstrat, me sequatur, &amp; vbi ego sum, illic et amp; minister meus erit. Sequatur,inquit,\nnon gressibus pedum, sed passibus affecti-\nonum. Apostolus quoque dicit: Nemo mi-\nlitans Deo implicat se negotijs secularib.\nvbi placeat, cui se probauit. Sicut ergo\nqui militãt Regi terreno, omnibus iussis\neius obediunt, &amp;amp; quocunque mittuntur,\nparati et amp;amp; prompti sunt, nulla se vxoris\nvel","segment":19,"source":{"mapping_precision":"exact","pages":[{"label":"105","number":105},{"label":"106","number":106},{"label":"107","number":107},{"label":"108","number":108},{"label":"109","number":109}]}},{"duplicate_of":null,"english_available":true,"html_id":"seg-20","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0020","latin":"vel liberorum gratia excusantes, ita mi\nlitem Christi mandatis eius in omnibus\noportet obedire, &amp; in nullo penitus se\nexcusare. Tu ergo, qui coronam immar-\ncescibile victoriae expectas, labora sicut\nbonus miles Iesu Christi, nulla car-\nnis voluptas mentem illecebrâ tangat.\nNihil enim Christi milite foelicius, cui\npromittuntur regna caelorum: nihil labo\nriosius, q̃ quotidie de vita periclitatur:\nnihil fortius, qui carne superatur. Non te\ndomus auocet, non parentela impediat,\nnon caro constringat. Volo te sine sollici-\ntudine esse, vt liberè cogites quae DEI\nsunt. Nodus et amp; expeditus ad caelum\nvola, qa nudum te mater genuit, nudũ\nterra suscipiet. Ama quod non praeuales, quaere\nquo\n\nquo in aeternum foeliciter gaudeas. Jta\nviue, vt mori non timeas. Bona con-\nsciẽtia mortem non metuit: qa per illam\nse ad aeternae coelestis patriae gaudia ven\nturam esse cognoscit. Habes nunc (aman\ntissime frater) ꝙ à me postulasti, habes\naliqualem bonę cõuersationis formulam,\ncui imprimaris, habes sanctae exhortati-\nonis normã, ad quā sedulò possis habere\nrecursum. Feci quod potui. De reliquo viue secundum Euan\ngelium &; constitutiones sanctorum pa-\ntrum, in quibus omnis perfectionis\nChristianae forma conspicitur.\nvale memor nostri.\nEx Spanheim Kalendis\nAprilis.\nAnno\nM.CCCC.LXXXVI.\nCAR-\n\nCARMEN AD 48\nCLERVM,\nexhortans ad puritatem vitae.\n1.Corinth.Tertio Cap.\nNescitis quia templum Dei estis,\nSpiritus Dei habitat in vobis? Si quis autem templũ Dei violauerit,\ndisperdet illum Deus.\nI.Corinth.Sexto Cap.\nTollens ergo membra Christi, faciã membra meretricis ? absit.\nAVdi sacra domus Melchisedchia,\nOrdo Presbyterum, Clere sacer D E O,\nStellantisq́; poli clauigerum cohors.\nTanquam grande iubar te statuit Deus,\nLucentemq́; globum te populis dedit:\nVt mundũ irradians lampade lucida,\nTerrarum\n\nTerrarum tenebras lumine dissipes:\nPurus terribili sacrifices DEO,\nSacramentaq; des, cum reuerentia,\nEmitis purpureo sanguine gentibus.\nTu sedem Domini, tu solium tenes,\nVt lumen fidei fallere nescium,\nEt legem, eloquio ac moribus, exprimas:\nVta; annum radijs Sol facit vtilem,\nSic mundum facias lumine fertilem.\nTu regale decus magnifici Iouis\nExaltata tenes, vt moderamine\nGentes fructifero pascere sis memor-\nEt quos implicitos vincla adamantina\nTentatoris habent, fortiter eximas.\nUnxit sacrifico te Deus vnguine,\nReddens omnigeno munere fulgidam.\nCum sis ergo nitens multiplici bono,\nSi fortassè alijs, non mihi displices.\nVerùm sollicitè te monitam velim,\n\nTecum\n\n49\nTecum vt dispicias , & benè rumines,\nQuantum dedeant Pontificum sacram\nSedem, ac coelituũ, plęraq́; vt inquinẽt,\nPraesertim illuuies foeda libidinum.\nQuę quã displiceat, quãꝗ odiosa fit,\nSancto virginei floris amasio,\nIgnorare nequit, qui sacra Biblia\nEuoluit vigili sollicitudine.\nNunc attende igitur, triste meum melos,\nCum sumi famulos principis ac Dei,\nCarnis mundities atque animi nitor\nIntactus debeat, castaq́; gaudia,\nCur passim video tot meretriculas\nClero ac presbyteris iam dominarier?\nCur doctos alioqui ac celebres viros,\nClaros diutijs ac sapientia,\nSic prorfus video desipere, omnia\nScortorum vt faciant arbitrio, regi\nNec vili renuant à muliercula?\nO sedes Domini Regia, Tu foues\nH Permul-\n\nC.\nPermultos placido (ceu genitrix) sinu;\nQui se foemineis illecebris trahi\nPermittunt, veluti bruta animantia,\nAd quodcunque nefas, flagitium, scelus.\nQuàm vilis laqueus, quàm mala ser\nDum se faemineis consilijs regi, (uitus,\nPro sorti arbitrio vir sapiens sinit?\nOblitusq́; Dei turpiter, ac sui,\nOcludit monitis frugiferis viam.\nQuàm caeci, stolidi, quàm miserabiles\nSunt quotquot pedicis corda tenacibus\nConstricti, colubrum pestiferum domi\nNon paruo studio et amp; sumptibus educant,\nJmò iuge malum morte nocentius?\nInfoelix oculos Clere aperi tuos,\nVt tandẽ videas quàm graue scelus,\nConsecrata Deo si meretricijs\nCarnis templa tuae sordibus inquines,\nVel mens illicitis aestuet ignibus.\nSaltem vos aliquis corripiat pudor,\nMystae","segment":20,"source":{"mapping_precision":"exact","pages":[{"label":"110","number":110},{"label":"111","number":111},{"label":"112","number":112},{"label":"113","number":113},{"label":"114","number":114},{"label":"115","number":115}]}},{"duplicate_of":null,"english_available":true,"html_id":"seg-21","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0021","latin":"Mystae syderei principis inclyti,\nNe post hac libeat subdere liberam\nCeruicem obsequijs, imperio ac iugo\nCùm vilis famulae, tum meretriculae.\nSi leges hominum, iudicia &; minas,\nSi famam nihili denique penditis,\nA foeda veteris febre libidinis,\nIgnis perpetui vel metus abstrahat.\nSi templum Dñi (clamat Apostolus)\nCongressu vetito quis violauerit,\nCarnis templa suae si meretricijs\nFoedarit maculis, exitio hunc graui\nDisperdet Dñs sacrilegum DEVS.\nQuẽ non permouēt terribiles minae,\nQuas passim resonant sacra volumina,\nAduersus vapidae carnis amasios?\nAut quis non stolidos ac stupidos vocet,\nQuid nectis laqueos ipse tibi miser,\nDum\n\nDum pręsens adamas caece periculum,\nDurum nec metuis iudicium DEI?\nVix vnquam statues flagitijs modum,\nAfflatum colubri ni fugias procul.\nQuis prunas tunica deferat integra,\nIllaesus medijs vel stet in ignibus?\nDeuitare nequis mortiferam luem,\nRadicem veteris ni resecans mali,\nPellas desidiam, pocula ꝑ) ocium.\nQuid Samsone fuit fortius horrido,\nVastis qui potuit sternere viribus\nSolus mille viros mandibula vnica?\nHunc vilis mulier perdidit, attamen\nLassatum assiduis (heu) querimonijs.\nNe credas igitur fletibus improbae,\nSuspecte q́; preces sint tibi, cum minis.\nFlatu pestifero, cordis ad intima\nFrrumpit tacitè flamma libidinis.\nHorrescas meritò, crimen adulteri\nDaui-\n\nDauidis recolens, quo reperirier\nVix vllus potuit religiosior,\nUt gnatum sileam, qui sapientia\nPraefulsit reliquos longè homines supra;\nCapti foemineis illecebris tamen.\nTã prudẽs Salomõ, quàm pater optimus:\nEt lapsi grauiter non tacitè admonent,\nDeclinare procul saeua pericula?\nQui cunctas igitur proijcitis moras,\nAtque anguem excutitis laetiferum, viri,\nNe captos teneat vos Draco longius?\nSi nolit placidis passibus egredi,\nExturbate domo pestiferam luem.\nClamet pulsa licet, murmuret, infre-\nFamã dilacerãs, euomat undiq́; (mat,\n(Esto) probra domus, lacrimet, eiulet,\nNil horum moueat corda virilia,\nQuae fumi pereunt more breuissimi.\nHic iusto potius corda premat metu\nTerror, cura, metus, discruciet pudor\nNe vos\n\nNe vos immodicus , poenaq́; maxima,\nCùm sordens vario crimine spiritus\nSistetur Domini iudicio sui.\nNon vilis moueãt vos meretriculae\nClamores, lacrymae, ꝓbra, minę, furor:\nSed vindex scelerum, iustus et integer,\nPlenos flagitijs terreat, & niger\nOrcus Cocytius, Styxq́; Acherontia.\nNequãdo innumeris sordibus oblitos\nVotis et stimulis Cypridis improbae,\nUltrix nequitiae flamma vorax cremet\nDemersos penitus terribilem in lacum,\nQui semper crepitat sulphure et ignibus.\nALVD\n[Decorative line]\n\nALVD\nCARMEN DE\nDIGNITATE\nSacerdotum.\nVIRI venerabiles Sacer-\ndotes DEI,\nPraecones altissimi, lucer-\nnae diei,\nCharitatis radio fulgentes, & spei,\nAuribus percipite verba oris mei.\nVos in sanctuario Dei deseruitis,\nCauete ne steriles aut inanes sitis,\nSi cum vero stipite viuere velitis,\nVos estis catholicae legis protectores,\nSal terrae, lux hominũ, ouium pastores,\nMuri Domus Israël, morũ correctores,\nIudices Ecclesiae, gentium doctores.\nH 4 Si ca-\n\nSi cadat protectio legis, lex aboletur,\nSi sal euanuerit, in quo salietur?\nNisi lux appareat, via nescietur,\nNisi pastor vigilet, ouile frangetur.\nVos coepistis vineã Dei procurare,\nQuam doctrinae riuulis debetis rigare,\nSpinas atque tribulos procul extirpare,\nVt radices fidei possint germinare.\nVos estis in area boues triturantes,\nPrudenter à palea granum separantes,\nLaici, qui fragiles sunt, & inconstantes.\nQuicqd vidẽt laici vobis displicere,\nDicunt procul dubio sibi non licere,\nQuicqd vos in opere vidẽt adimplere,\nCredunt esse licitum, & culpa carere.\nCum pastores ouiium sitis constituti,\nNon estote desides sicut canes muti,\nVobis non deficiunt latratus acuti,\nLupus rapax inuidet ouiium saluti. Grex","segment":21,"source":{"mapping_precision":"exact","pages":[{"label":"116","number":116},{"label":"117","number":117},{"label":"118","number":118},{"label":"119","number":119},{"label":"120","number":120},{"label":"121","number":121}]}},{"duplicate_of":null,"english_available":true,"html_id":"seg-22","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0022","latin":"Grex fidelis triplici cibo sustinetur,\nCorpore Dominico, quo salus augetur,\nSermonis cõpendio, quod discrete detur,\nMundano cibario, ne periclitetur.\nQuibus tenemini verum praedicare,\nSed quid, quibus, qualiter, vbi, quãdo,\nDebetis solicitè recõsiderare, (quare)\nNe quis in officio dicat vos errare.\nSpectat ad officiũ vestrae dignitatis,\nGratiae petentibus dona dare gratis,\nSed si vnꝗ̈ fidei munera vendatis,\nIncursuros Giezi lepram vos sciatis.\nGratis Eucharistiã plebi ministrate,\nGratis confitemini, gratis baptizate,\nSecundum Apostolũ cunctis date,\nSolum id quod fuerit vestrũ conseruate.\nVestra conuersatio sit relligiosa,\nMunda conscientia, vita virtuosa,\nRegularis habitus, mensq́; gratiosa,\nNulla vos coinquinet labes criminosa.\n\nNullus fastus deprimat ur̄ę signū mētis,\nGrauis in intuitu, habitus fit testis,\nNihil vos illaqueet curis inhonestis.\nQuibus claues traditę sũt regni coelestis.\nEstote breuiloqui, ne vos ad reatum,\nPertrahat loquacitas, nutrix vanitatū,\nVerbum, ꝙ proponitis, sit abbreuiatum,\nNam in multiloquio non deest peccatum.\nEstote beneuoli, sobrij, prudentes,\nIusti, casti, simplices, pij, patientes,\nHospitales, humiles, subditos docentes,\nConsolātes miseros, prauos corrigentes.\nVtinam sic gerere curã pastoralem\nPossitis, & ducere vitam spiritalem,\nVt cum exueritis Chlamydem carnalem,\nInduat vos dominus stolam aeternalem.\nQui sedet in solio summae maiestatis,\nVos purget à vitio, mundet à peccatis,\nVobis fit auxilio vestrae pietatis,\nVt Abrahae gremio tandē sedeatis. Amen.\nALIVD.\n\n54\nCARMEN DE CVLORVM.\nThrenorum Tertio Cap.\nOculus meus depraedatus est\nanimam meam.\nI tibi robur iuuenile curae\nest,\nGrata si mentis requies\nserenae,\nAnxio serua studio petulca\nLumina vbique\nSis memor, quamuis modicos ocellos,\nMaximos hostes fragili esse menti,\nQuos opus semper (nisi vis perire)\nStringere freno.\nQuisquis huc etenim vagari\nGaudet, & visum cohibere nescit,\nSentiet grandes animae ruinas\nCaptus amore.\nNamque 1\n\nNamque Amor tecto metuendus arcu,\nLubricos primùm feriens ocellos\nSerpit in venas, mediamq́; transit\nCordis ad arcam.\nMobilis semper vigil ad fenestras\nExcubat Daemon, subitoq́; mentem\nVrit afflatu, male si quieta\nLumina cernit.\nQuis quis aeternam requiem proinde\nQuęris, ardores metuens Gehennę,\nOstium seruans, oculis tuendis\nPeruigil insta:\nQue (malum) cogit rabies videre,\nQue frui non est tibi fas, & vnde\nCordis inuolui subitis tenebris\nIntima sentis.\nDum nimis fidis tibi, nec laboras\nSedulò causas resecare morbi,\nVulgere afflictus rapido ac lubenti\nNequiter ardes.\nLubri-\n\n55.\nLubricas versans animo figuras\nVreris caeco miser intus igne,\nVulnus in venis tacitum fouendo,\nVnde peribis.\nJmò iam coram Domino peristi,\nPutrido flagrans vehementer aestu,\nDum scelus vecors male concupiscis,\nVulnus amasq́;\nQuid vagis spectas oculis per omnes\nObuiam quicquid tibi fit plateas,\nCùm vel inuitum iuuenilis ardor\nPlus satis vrat.\nReguli virus minus est timendum,\nForma quàm pellax mulierq́; compta:\nCorpus hoc visu necat, illa mentem\nMorte perenni.\nTestis est sancti Domini Propheta\nRegius Psaltes, muliebre nudum\nQui videns corpus, cecidit repentè\nIn graue crimen.\nQuis\n\nQuis sibi post haec (rogo) non timebit,\nCùm virum cernat cecidisse talem?\nTerreat quem non pius ille Dauid\nFactus adulter ?\nFINIS.\nEx passis moneor commodo ferre malis.\nQui prosunt, acres stimulos hic tollerat: inde\nVANITAS OMNium CEREBRUM\nDONATVS FAeTIVS\nBrixinae excudebat.\nANNO DOMINI\nM.D.LXXVII.\n\n2\n\nPage 17 (likely)\n\nH Heinrich","segment":22,"source":{"mapping_precision":"exact","pages":[{"label":"122","number":122},{"label":"123","number":123},{"label":"124","number":124},{"label":"125","number":125},{"label":"126","number":126},{"label":"127","number":127},{"label":"128","number":128},{"label":"129","number":129},{"label":"130","number":130},{"label":"131","number":131},{"label":"132","number":132}]}},{"duplicate_of":null,"english_available":true,"html_id":"seg-23","id":"trc:prdl-32285_de-sacerdotum-vita-instituenda-libellus:seg-0023","latin":"Quis sibi post haec (rogo) non timebit,\nCùm virum cernat cecidisse talem?\nTerreat quem non pius ille Dauid\nFactus adulter? 123456\n0 | 5 | 10 | 20 | 30 | 40 | 50mm\n| | | | | |\n| | | | | | 1\n| | | | | | 2\n| | | | | | 3\n| | | | | | 4\n| | | | | | 5\n| | | | | | 6\n| 30° BSB Bayerische StaatsBibliothek\n© 2007 digitalfoto-trainer.de\n| 1\n| | | | | |\n| | | | | | | | |\n| | | | | | | | |\n| | | | | | | | |\n| | | | | | | | |\n| | | | | | | |\n| | | | | | |\n| | | | | | |\n| | | | | | |\n| | | | | | |\n| | | | | | |\n\nQuis sibi post haec (rogo) non timebit,\nCùm virum cernat cecidisse talem?\nTerreat quem non pius ille Dauid\nFactus adulter?\n\nFINIS.\nEx passis moneor commodo ferre malis. 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