Apology Against the Calumnies of the Louvain Theologians

XII. Gross ignorance; they do not know how to distinguish operative goodness from essential goodness.

Divination through "as if."

XIII. Futile application.

XIIII. Impertinent and insufficient allegation.

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XVI. They take an ambiguous word in the worse sense.

XVII. Improbity scandalous to the power of the church.

XVIII. Malicious lie.

There are some good men, yet the sciences themselves will have nothing of goodness, nothing of truth, unless as much as they borrow or acquire from the inventors themselves.

As if he wanted to imply that no science has truth in itself, but only that which is borrowed from the author.

Which is against the philosopher, saying that the sciences are among the number of honorable goods.

And it is against c. Si quis artem, 37th distinction.

¶ Other propositions offensive to pious ears follow.

The canons compel priests to whore basely, having abolished honest marriages.

Wishing to imply in effect that priests could marry if the disposition of the law did not stand in the way.

When, however, from the death of Christ, it has not been heard that a priest has taken a wife.