An Ample Declaration of the Christian DoctrineChapter 21. Of sinnes that crie vnto Heauen

St Robert Bellarmine († 1621) · Dichiarazione più copiosa della dottrina cristiana · 1598

Chapter 21. Of sinnes that crie vnto Heauen

Scholar. How manie are they, & what bee the sinnes, which crie vnto Heauen?

Master. They are four, to wit, wilful murder: carnall sinnes against nature: oppression of the poore, and chiefly of orphans, and widowes: and to defraud workmen of their wages.

Scholar. Wherefore is it said, that they crie to Heauen?

Master. Because the iniustice of these sinnes is so maniefest, that it can not be couered or hidden by anie means.

Richard Hadock, “Printed at Roan” [in fact an English secret press, 1604?] (STC 1834; Folger Shakespeare Library copy). Digital text: Text Creation Partnership, EEBO-TCP A07972 (keyed from the copy filmed for Early English Books Online). Public domain: printed in 1604. The transcription is the Text Creation Partnership’s, dedicated to the public domain (CC0 1.0).