The Jesuits - James Aitken Wylie
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ites and the worship of paganism, while remaining<br />
Roman Catholics at heart, and they have taught<br />
their converts to venerate their former deities in<br />
appearance, on the strength of directing aright the<br />
intention, and the pious fraud of concealing a<br />
crucifix under their clothes.<br />
Equivocation they have carried into civil life as<br />
well as into religion. "A man may swear," says<br />
Sanchez, "that he hath not done a thing though he<br />
really have, by understanding within himself that<br />
he did it not on such and such a day, or before he<br />
was born; or by reflecting on some other<br />
circumstance of the like nature; and yet the words<br />
he shall make use of shall not have a sense<br />
implying any such thing; and this is a thing of great<br />
convenience on many occasions, and is always<br />
justifiable when it is necessary or advantageous in<br />
anything that concerns a man's health, honor, or<br />
estate."[4] Filiutius, in his Moral Questions, asks,<br />
"Is it wrong to use equivocation in swearing? I<br />
answer, first, that it is not in itself a sin to use<br />
equivocation in swearing This is the common<br />
doctrine after Suarez." Is it perjury or sin to<br />
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