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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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