Marriage and the Priesthood (Ouseley, Old Christianity Against Papal Novelties, 1844)

Type: a quote
Sub-type: an opinion/view
Relevance: prophecy
Text: "Neither shall he regard ... the desire of women..." Daniel 11:37... speaking of the dishonoring of marriage by the King of the North/Papacy/Roman Catholic church.

[...] Now, when the vast multitude of the clergy, secular and regular, of all degrees, were prohibited from marriage, that preservative allowed them by that infinite Wisdom who created them, and that all classes of people must come to these private confessions, and so frequently too, and open up their (even indecent) secrets, as above: and when the well-fed pastor is celibate, and when he can lay on penance, and when he can loose and absolve from the guilt confessed, what on earth, I ask,—I appeal to every breast—can be conceived more calculated to produce general pollution, and fill the world with fornications and adulteries on every hand? [...]
Ouseley, Gideon, Old Christianity Against Papal Novelties, 1st American, fr. the 5th Dublin ed., Philadelphia: Sorin and Ball, 1844, p. 322.


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