Jean Daillé: The Reformers did not leave Rome owing to lapses in discipline

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... Though she very gently tolerate such as were debauched or vicious, yet she did not force any to be so. No man was for entering into her communion constrained to be a slave to any of those vices which bore sway in the midst of her. No, a man might have lived within it, and yet addicted himself to honesty and goodness: And as yet corruption had not gained so far, as that ill manners were authorized by public laws. But on the contrary during the worst of times, though her voice was weak and languishing, yet she made some noise against the impiety of the age. And oftentimes those very men that gave ill example in their lives preached against it and decried it horribly in the pulpit.

That which hath pulled us from her communion is her doctrine, and not her actions; that which she commands, and not that which she suffers; that which she requires of us all, and not that which she tolerates in some others; the articles of her faith, and not the faults of her life. For the adoration of the Eucharist, invocation of Saints, veneration of images, and those other articles which we rehearsed before, are not such things as she only tolerates as bad, or excuseth as doubtful; but beliefs which she commendeth as true, and observations which she commandeth as useful and necessary to salvation. ...

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That's a rather generous and hospitable view of the situation!
 
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