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I now proceed to another Catholick Topick, which is run into prodigious Luxuriancy and Irregularity; I mean the good Art of Lying for the Church. I do not intend to debar the Ambassadors from their most righteous and antient Practice of martyring their Conscience to their Cassock, and venturing their precious Souls against the dangerous and fanatical Encroachments of their old Foe, Truth, which was never a Friend to the Trade of the Tippit.

From: A modest APOLOGY for Parson Alberoni, governor to King PHILIP, a Minor; and Universal Curate Of the whole Spanish MONARCHY: The Whole being a short, but unanswerable Defence of Priestcraft, and a new Confutarion of the Bishop of Bangor. Published 1719.

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I now proceed to another Catholick Topick, which is run into prodigious Luxuriancy and Irregularity; I mean the good Art of Lying for the Church. I do not intend to debar the Ambassadors from their most righteous and antient Practice of martyring their Conscience to their Cassock, and venturing their precious Souls against the dangerous and fanatical Encroachments of their old Foe, Truth, which was never a Friend to the Trade of the Tippit.

From: A modest APOLOGY for Parson Alberoni, governor to King PHILIP, a Minor; and Universal Curate Of the whole Spanish MONARCHY: The Whole being a short, but unanswerable Defence of Priestcraft, and a new Confutarion of the Bishop of Bangor. Published 1719.