11. That the vow of celibacy made in our Church by women, who are frail and imperfect in nature, is the cause of bringing the gravest horrible sins possible to human nature, because, although the killing of abortive children before they are baptized and the destruction of nature by nature and vile sins, yet copulation with themselves or brute beasts or any creature not having life surpasses such sins in foulness to such an extent as that they should be punished with the pains of hell. The corollary is that, widows and such as take the veil and the ring, being delicately fed, we could wish that they were given in marriage, because we cannot excuse them from secret sins.
12. That the abundance of unnecessary acts practised in our realm nourishes much sin in waste, profusion and disguise. This, experience and reason prove in some measure, because nature is sufficient for a man's necessity with few arts. The corollary is that since St. Paul says, "having food and raiment, let us be therewith content, it seems to us that goldsmiths and armourers and all kinds of arts not necessary for a man, it cording to the apostle, should be destroyed for the increase of virtue; because although these two said arts were exceedingly necessary in the old law, the Old Testament abolishes them and many others.
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