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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88370	Little non-such: or, Certaine new questions moved out of ancient truths. I. concerning the words, let us make man after our own image. II. Whether that was a materiall apple which Adam did eate III. Whether the forbidding of marriage be not a Popish injunction onely, and not rightly grounded from the Scripture. Newly published with intent to finde out the truth if it be not here already.		1646 (1646)	Wing L2552; Thomason E353_8; ESTC R3620	12,656	16

this very age and time wherein we live let some that are learned informe us better So then we perceive by this Tract and all the rest it is fornication uncleannesse and these forenamed works of the flesh which is forbidden but for that excellent and sacred institution of marriage from which Ordinance the blessed elect of Gods children doe proceed that holy Order we see is honourable amongst all without exception as is formerly proved Now then without all dispute that marriage is most just which is made without any ambitious or covetous end and if this liking and mutuall correspondency happen betwixt the neerest of kindred then is it also the most naturall the most lawfull and according to the primitive purity and practice nor is there now any Popish Canons to restraine it which perhaps some consciences might boggle at in regard of the precept you are to obey the Magistrate for conscience sake And indeed we would not argue any thing here against higher powers that are in true orthodox authority but onely desire that no Law or prohibition should bind the conscience in matters that the Gospell of Christ hath left free unto Christian people And if we can judge aright all these works of the flesh formerly recited from severall Texts in Seripture did never so much abound and no marvell for what fruit can be expected from bastard Plants or what match is made amongst a thousand or perhaps amongst ten thousand without ambition covetousnesse inordinate appetite or some collaterall respect pardon the plainnesse of the phrase for I have read of a Law as I now remember amongst the Spartans viz. No man should give a dower in marriage with his daughter then did the best men seeke to acquire the most vertuous women and who then they flourished more in Arts and Armes Now if the Patriarks our fore-fathers chose their kindred in obedience to a duty commanded the Heathens tooke wives for their vertues and yet we Christians will have none but for money the attribute aforesaid deserves the lesse rebuke Well then let us avoyd communities which is reported to be maintained by some late sects let us avoyd fornication with all and by all meanes with our kindred for that is the highest degree of fornication as is formerly declared But for holy wedlock where there is hope of propagation and hearts consenting as is proved to be the duty of the next kinsman so was there never more cause to shake off the Popish thraldome and to revive that Primitive custome seeing by these late and common calamities so many thousand families are forced from their habitations which they have honestly laboured for and for ought they know must starve and perish at some have already done if they cannot finde a dwelling more remote therefore we must be of opinion with such as do account mulct and punishments an Antichristian yoke where they are imposed upon the conscience but most especially when there is neither act nor intention against the service of God or prejudice to our Christian brethren and here we remember the saying 2 Cor. 13.2 of Saint Paul Be of one mind live in peace Now then to close up all by asking of a question If in such a case honest women that have no portion to bestow them thorough the causes aforesaid should require this duty from the next of kin whether upon refusall their said kinsman deserve not the reproach mentioned in the story of Boas and Ruth and as touching the * Deut. 25.5 raising of seed from one brother to another formerly recited at large in the beginning of this discourse surely they doe and must answer in their great account for the misearriage of their kinswomen if so it happen yet we are not ignorant the Civill law saith an Vnkle to his Neece is in loco parentis and that they say is a bar in marriage but setting Law and evill Custome aside we demand in reason how he can stand her in better steed then to marry her if she be willing and hath no means to be otherwaies provided We are commanded to feare God and the King and not to meddle with them that are seditious Neither are these things moved out of nicety or by way of paradox or as St Paul speaks of * 1 Tim. 6. doting questions or strife of words whereof comes envy and perverse disputings or as some cite Scripture to cloake their deceipt and hypocrisie but onely to finde out the truth which if those that are Orthodoxly learned will take paines to resolve it will be a charitable worke to satisfie the consciences of some lesse learned who are likely to seeke habitations in forrain Countreys and would in discharge of their duties doe that which they conceive to be most just viz. without ambitious or covetous ends adventure upon the first Institution Now we know the vulgar sort that lookes no further then the times they live in will bogle at this doctrine and thinke it a Navell Then here we will put you in mind of what some of you do yet remember namely a quality of two eminent men esteemed very wise especially in the lawes the one would not abide a sholder of Veale the other did not love a Duek what would you have thought these men wise to proclaime it unlawfull for any other to eate these kind of meats because they did not love them surely no you would have held them rediculons So our question is not how any mans appetite likes or dislikes we onely desire to know yea or no whether the matter in it selfe be unlawfull or where it is repugnant to Scripture when all places of this subject are compared together And if it be controverted not with Heathen fables or mens bare opinions but by Scripture proofe by one that is learned and of a refin'd wit it may satisfie but if it come from a young head not halfe codled or from one that is old and Note doting or from any that is popish or illiterate t is ten to one such judgement will be renounced or at least suspected Some other questions we intended to move as namely those at the latter end of Mr Smiths Sermon entituled The lost sheep is found which yet we have not heard any answer unto and why through Popish superstition on the one side and diversity of Schisms and Sects of the other side there is yet no certaine frame of Discipline setled to confirme the weake and wavering Christian Or seeing we have found so much fault with Turke and Pope for their bloody tenents and that the weapons of the Church are preces lacrymas prayers and teares whether that will prove a good Religion which is setled or maintained by the Sword but if these be first resolved to be as they are here conceived or otherwise convinc'd of errour by Scripture proofe we may then have encouragement to move some other things necessary for the confirmation of our selves and others LAVS DEO POSTSCRIPT 1. WE have lately seen a little Booke which saith the sinne against the holy Ghost hath hitherto been mistaken 2. We have seen another maintaine that Independency is no Schism 3. We have seen another maintaine out of Scripture that our Saviour Christ shall live 1000 yeers with his Saints upon earth 4. We have seen books writ against baptizing of Infants though the custome hath been so for 1400 yeeres 5. We see the Office of Bishops of no repute though their Function hath continued since the time of the Apostles and what Heresies were by them refuted in the first four generall Counsels 6. We know our own King Henry the 8. married his brothers wife and put her away and tooke another which we cannot approve of 7. We have heard that Martin Luther married a Nun which in the Popes opinion was a greater trespasse then if he had married his naturall sister And in feare of the president the holy Father thundered out his Excommunications but the honest Doctor to requite him said he would open a gap that all the bushes in St Peters patrimony should not stop againe and 〈◊〉 as good as his word These things considered our little Discourse that maintaines nothing positively but asketh questions under correction will not be strange to them that are judicious however it seem strange to such as will laugh at their shadow Salo. Nothing remains certain under the Sunne FINIS