Previous to this time, whenever We were investigating the establishment and confirmation of legislation, and the civil law appeared to be stronger and better founded than the ecclesiastical, We gave the former the preference; and, for that reason, thinking that it would be advantageous to ratify the rule of a religious order by means of a decree issued by civil authority, We hereby, in accordance with ecclesiastical discipline, direct that every clerk who is so foolish as to abandon his religious habit, and assume a secular one, shall be compelled to resume the former, even though he may no longer be worthy of again being received in the place from which he escaped in this dishonorable way.