deprived of one part by force], since it could not obtain both parts;
but the authors who maintain that the use of the entire Sacrament is
justly prohibited, and who now not only prohibit, but even
excommunicate and violently persecute those using an entire Sacrament,
we do not excuse. Let them see to it how they will give an account
to God for their decisions. Neither is it to be judged immediately
that the Church determines or approves whatever the pontiffs
determine, especially since Scripture prophesies concerning the
bishops and pastors to effect this as Ezekiel says, 7, 28: The Law
shall perish from the priest [there will be priests or bishops who
will know no command or law of God].




Part 28


Article XXIII (XI): _Of the Marriage of Priests._


Despite the great infamy of their defiled celibacy, the adversaries
have the presumption not only to defend the pontifical law by the
wicked and false pretext of the divine name, but even to exhort the
Emperor and princes, to the disgrace and infamy of the Roman Empire,
not to tolerate the marriage of priests. For thus they speak.
[Although the great, unheard-of lewdness, fornication, and adultery
among priests, monks, etc., at the great abbeys, in other churches
and cloisters, has become so notorious throughout the world that
people sing and talk about it, still the adversaries who have