[958] The spirit of the sectaries of Schmidt is shown by one of their doctrines—“Propter sacerdotum nequitiam, licentiavit Deus et abjecit sacerdotium evangelicum,” and by their argument for abolishing masses for the dead “nihil prosint defunctis, sed sint solatia vivorum et repleant marsupia clericorum.”—Gobelin. Person. Cosmodrom. Ætat. VI. cap. xciii.—Cf. Theod. Vrie, Hist. Concil. Constant. Lib. III. Dist. viii.
[959] See the proceedings in Baluze and Mansi, I. 288-93. As usual, the Men of Intelligence were accused of indulging in promiscuous intercourse.
[960] Even soon after Savonarola’s martyrdom, Julius II. refused to listen to those who desired a condemnation of his memory. Leo X. honored him by celebrating the Epiphany of 1515 in his convent of San Marco. Julius III. declared that he would deem heretical any one who should attack him. Paul IV. assembled a congregation for the purpose of examining and deciding upon his works, and after six months’ labor they reported that his writings were unexceptionable, though a portion which reflected too vigorously on the papal court were declared to be unfitted for general perusal.—Perrens, Jérome Savonarole, Paris 1856, pp. 296-7.
[961] See Baluze et Mansi I. 584-5 for the letters to the Emperor of Germany and King and Queen of Spain. Perrens (op. cit. p. 375) also gives the one addressed to the King of France, while those to the Kings of England and Hungary have apparently been lost.
[962] Taceo de fornicationibus et adulteriis, a quibus qui alieni sunt probro cæteris ac ludibrio esse solent, spadonesque aut sodomitæ appellantur; denique laici usque adeo persuasum habent nullos cœlibes esse, ut in plerisque parochiis non aliter velint presbyterum tolerare nisi concubinam habeat, quo vel sic suis sit consultum uxoribus, quæ nec sic quidem usquequaque sunt extra periculum.—Nic. de Clemangis de Præsul. Simoniac. (Bayle, Dict. Hist. s. v. Hall).
[963] Nic. de Clamengiis Disput. super Mater. Concil. General.
[964] Nic. de Clamengiis de Ruina Ecclesiæ cap. xxii., xxxvi.—Conf. Theobaldi Conquest. (Von der Hardt T. I. P. XIX. p. 909).
[965] P. de Alliaco Canones Reformat, cap. iv. (Von der Hardt T. I. P. VI. p. 425).
[966] Gersoni Declarat, defect, viror. ecclesiast. lxv., lxvi.
[967] Dicimus quod de duobus malis minus est incontinentes tolerare sacerdotes quam nullos habere.—Gersoni Dial. Sophiæ et Naturæ Act. IV.