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A07763	Fovvre bookes, of the institution, vse and doctrine of the holy sacrament of the Eucharist in the old Church As likevvise, hovv, vvhen, and by what degrees the masse is brought in, in place thereof. By my Lord Philip of Mornai, Lord of Plessis-Marli; councellor to the King in his councell of estate, captaine of fiftie men at armes in the Kings paie, gouernour of his towne and castle of Samur, ouerseer of his house and crowne of Nauarre.; De l'institution, usage, et doctrine du sainct sacrement de l'Eucharistie, en l'eglise ancienne. English	Mornay, Philippe de, seigneur du Plessis-Marly, 1549-1623.; R.S., l. 1600.	1600 (1600)	STC 18142; ESTC S115135	928,225	532

predecessors in the matter of Images had made their market by driuing their Emperours out of the East and out of Italie so this man preuailed by controuersie and pluckt the Empire from Germany or at the least did so loppe and clip it as that it retained not so much as the shadowe of his auncient Monarchie This controuersie notwithstanding being debated in diuerse Synodes at Millaine Lamb. Schasnaburgens Nauclerus at Mentz and at Erphord supported by the Archbishoppe of Mentz and furthered to the vttermost by the Pope was notwithstanding gainsayed both by all the Bbs. as also by all the Cleargie opposing and setting against the Pope his Canons the plaine and euident textes of scripture as the Chroniclers themselues of the same time do declare and had no other end saue that the Archbishoppe did well see and perceiue that the whole Cleargie of Germany was resolued rather to forsake their charges thē their wiues and which is more tooke vpon himselfe to become the executioner of so notorious a tyrannie in his own proper person letting passe all further conference with the Pope about the matter In the meane time in the yeare 1076. there was a Councell held at Wormes Auentinus where were present all the Bishoppes both of Germany and of France and therein Gregory the seauenth is condemned and deposed by the common consent of them all Adulberon the Bb. of Wirtzbourg and Herman the Bb. of Mets only excepted Amongst other causes this was noted for one Hee separateth husbands from their wiues he preferreth whores and strumpets to lawfull wiues fornications adulteries and incests to lawful marriages he stirreth vppe the common people against the ecclesiasticall persons and the ecclesiasticall persons against the common people Sabellie c. And this Decree was signed by the Bb. of Mentz who was chiefe President in the same as also by the Bishoppes of Treues of Vtrecht of Mets of Luques of Verdune Thoul Spire Halberstat Strasbourg Basile Constance Wirtz bourg Bamberg Ratisbona Brichsen Eichstat Munster Hildescheim Minde Osnabourg Naumbourg Padeburne Brandenbourg Lausanna and Vienna vppon Roan as also subscribed shortly after by the Bishops of Italie assembled in the Synode of Pauie Whereupon Pope Gregorie enraged more and more stirred vppe the Monkes against the Priestes the subiectes against the princes Auent p. 564. and the Princes against the Emperour Neuer was the sillie flocke of Christ sayeth Auentinus afflicted with so cruell a sedition as was this which sprung of the forbidding of the Priestes to marrie All diuine and humane thinges were turned topsie turuie euen to the pilling and spoiling of the Temples to the trampling and treading in the myre of the hostes that were consecrate by married Priestes If anie Bbs. would not admit them Priestes without the vow the people that had elected and chosen them did not let to cause them to exercise their charges to administer the sacramentes c. The Priestes on the other side did openlie preach and auouch that Hildebrand was that Antichrist set in Babilon in the Temple of God aduancing himselfe euen aboue God himselfe c. That hee did inuent fables falsified the histories of euerie yeares actions and accidentes depraued and misconstred the scriptures turning them by his expositions to what best pleased him c. al this to bring in a noueltie a pestilent thing yea a heresie In the end Auentinus saith Auent 573. How that many more delighting themselues to abuse manie women then to vse one lawful wife had giuen ouer themselues to the same madnes with the Pope About the yeare 1080. the Bbs. of Italie Germany France to meete with and remedy this mischiefe Nauclerus did assemble at Brixen in Bauaeria where Pope Hildebrand was deposed the second time as a Church-robber and heretike Nauclerus saith that one of the causes was The law of forced abstinence from mariage the diuorcements that in like maner he had violently made Auent l. 5. Auentine saith that the Councell vseth these wordes Suauis homo This sweet fellow denieth that Priestes lawfully married can hallow the host and yet receiueth for that busines whoremongers adulterers and incestuous persons The saide Hildebrand dyed an exile at Salernum whome the Germans called Hellebrand a fire-brand of hell for hauing kindled and set on fire all Germanie by his execrable life and particularlie by his diuelish magicke and incantations Who so is desirous to know further of this matter Cardin. Benno in vita Greg. 7. Ponta in his Chronologie Vrban 2. D. 32 may reade Cardinall Benno who liued at that time and therefore one of their owne Doctors liuing in this age hath well and deseruedlie written of him vir Pontificatu dignus c. And yet the spirite of error and deceipte doth not giue ouer For Vrbane the second about the yeare 1090. returned to the breathing out of his excommunications and freeing of subiectes from their alleageance to their Emperours and serueth himselfe with this Decree to trouble Christendome and more speciallie Germany whervpon Chroniclers giue him to name Turbanus And this speech is particularlie giuen out of him That he letted not straight to depriue the Clearkes of their offices benefices if they were maried Because that thē benefices had gotten the places roome of offices Again That he did ordaine that their wiues should become slaues vnto the prince or Lord whose subiectes they were These good Fathers exceeding one another in making impietie tyrannie euerie day more and more precious Paschall the second goeth on forward about the yeare 1105. for he armeth the Emperour which was Henry the fift against Henry the fourth his father not knowing how to accomplish a wicked and sacrilegious purpose otherwise then by a hainous murtherer hauing engaged him deeplie in the matter by reason of this enormous fact hee causeth him to ordaine in the Parliament and Synode helde at Northausen in the time of his fathers life That this Decree should be looked to and seene executed by the secular power of the Empire And alwaies vnder the counterfeite and sottish colour of the heresie of the Nicolaitans whereof themselues were rather guiltie and culpable And this was executed by Henrie the fift and the Princes of Germanie about the yeare 1120. in the time of Calixtus the second his successor and therefore some doe attribute this Decree to him in particular And for the working of some more credite and authoritie thereunto some alleadge him by the name of Calixtus the first Calixt 2. D. 27 This man enlarged and added more vnto it for it was not meete that hee should doe lesse then all his Predecessors That it was forbidden Bishoppes Priestes Deacons and Monkes to haue either concubines or lawfull wiues matching mariage the worke and institution of God with the keeping of Concubines the suggestion and deuise of the Deuill And that if anie were married they should be separated and put a sunder and this is

it in the Nicene Councel against those that wold forbid Church-men to marrie and this place decideth the whole controuersie by the clearnes therof notwithstanding whatsoeuer cauillations that may be brought to the contrarie insomuch as that this manner of expounding and taking of it is ratified by this famous Councell And yet the spirit of lyes doth take an exception against it saying In omnibus continere non valentibus amongst all them that haue not the gift of continency What ground can this exception find in this text which is so wouen set together as that this exception doth cut away the whole strength of the Apostle his argument which is such God wil iudge al fornicators adulterers so much the more seuerely for that he hath giuen them a remedy against the concupiscence of the flesh euen mariage which is honorable amongst al of what condition soeuer they may be namely saith Chrysostome Against the pollution of wandring pleasures the bed vndefiled Chrysost in ep Heb. in Marn 15 hom 52. 1. Cor. 7.2 1. Timoth. 3. Caretan ibid. ad Hebr. Haimo ibid. following herein the same which the Apostle saith in an other place For the auoiding of temptation let euery man haue his wife and euery woman her husband c. And this is also the verie same that Cardinall Caietanus saith In omnibus that is to say non in aliquibus sic in aliquibus non that is not in some yea and in other some no. And Haimo Bishop of Halberstat addeth That a man riseth from the mariage bed vndefiled in vsing it according to the institution of the Lord. Saint Paule presseth the matter further saying A Bishop must be vnblameable 1. Tim. 3. Titus l. 6. the husband of one onely woman The same also is deliuered of priestes and that in the same wordes Wherefore to be married is a thing for which they cannot be blamed seeing that one and the same man may be vnblameable the husband of one woman both together Againe he saith It is meete and requisite 1. Tim. 3. 5. Tit. l. 2. 3. 1. Timmoth 3.4.5.6 that hee hold the mysterie of faith and wholesome doctrine that is that he be able to teach Let him pray for himselfe and for the Church let him know to gouerne it with a holy wisedome in all the parts thereof to establish the ministerie to conuince the aduersaries to censure the offendors and to bee earnest for the reliefe of the poore that he do all this with a good conscience exercising himselfe in godlinesse and charitie in faith and in holines giuing all manner of vertuous example auoiding all contrarie vices euen so as he may make the enemies of the truth to blush with shame c. And yet notwithstanding it is meete and conuenient that he should be married that hee should haue children that he bring them vp in the feare of God that in the trayning vp and instructing of them he expresse the scantlin of that care which he hath ouer the Church Then it must needes follow that all these vertues may agree together with mariage seeing that S. Paule will that Bishops and Priestes may be maried and yet all these vertues looked for at their handes and which is more euen chastitie shamefastnesse and honestie of life This place needeth no clearing and notwithstanding against the sonues of darknes wee will not find fault with the light of the Doctors if it shine thereupon Chrysostome saith Thou demandest why S. Chrysost in ep ad Tit. 1. in 1. Timoth. 3. Paule doth here lay out vnto vs that a Bishop should bee the husband of one onely wife doest thou know wherefore It is to shut up all be●etickes monthes which giue out and teach abroad that mariage is impure thereby shewing them to the contrarie that it is so honourable and precious as that a married man may notwithstanding be admitted and aduanced to the great and honorable place of a Bishop And yet that there may bee obserued a modest and commendable measure he saith but of one onely that so they may not vnlawfully take vnto themselues libertie to inioy two together after the manner of the Iewes Theodoret. in 1. ad Tim. 3. ad Tit. 1. And Theodoret saith the same vppon these places confuting such in expresse wordes as would abuse them against the second mariages of Churchmen Chrysostome also saith the same The Apostle saith if he know not to gouerne his family c. seeing that he which is a good house keeper becommeth quickly wife and skilfull in matters concerning a common weale and he that hath attained to keep and containe within the compasse of dutie a wife children and seruants is so much the more able to gouerne all sortes of people in the Church as if mariage were an introduction and way of direction teaching him to become fit for the degree and dignitie of the gouernment of the Church so farre is it off that hee should hold it as a meanes to cause him to stumble and fall S. Ierome Hieronym in 1. Tim. 3. ad Titum 1. though sometime not very fauourable to mariage expounding this place vnto Timothie doth not find therein any argument to disproue the mariage of Ministers vpon the place to Titus he doubteth whether he should vnderstand it that a Bishop cannot haue but one wife as who say that therby their second mariages should be excluded or els that he may not haue two at one time as the ancient Patriarkes whose example the Iewes following tooke it for a dispensation for them to doe the like yet he preferreth maketh more accompt of a modest and chaste second mariage then of one sole and onely mariage wantonly lasciuiously entertained Idem aduersn-Iouinianum Being ouercome of choler as he oftentimes was against Iouinian hee cutteth off all saying that the Apostle meaneth that hee hath beene maried Idem ad Oceanum ep 83. but not that he may be But his heate being quencht and passion ouerpast writing to Oceanus he pleadeth the cause of Carterius Bishop of Spain who had had one wife before his baptisme and one afterward saying For him it is written Mariage is honourable the bed vndefiled but for thee who findest fault with him he speaketh of his aduersaries God will iudge the fornicators and adulterers Againe The Apostle was amongst the Iewes and the first Church of Christ was of the residue and remainder of Israel he knew that it was permitted by law and accustomed amongst the people by the example of the Patriarkes and of Moyses to beget and multiply children by diuers women yea and this libertie extended euen to the priestes wherefore he ordained that the priestes Sacerdotes of the Christian Church should not giue themselues such licence as that they should haue two or three wiues vno tempore at one time c. Comming againe afterward to Carterius And doest thou thinke therefore that this good

chiefe amongst the Apostles because he had begotten children And we must not say that he had had one but that after his calling he had not any for frō this example in the same place S. August concludeth thus And for this cause the Apostle sheweth that hee that hath a wife Fieri posse debere sacerdes Clem. l. 7. stro prouided that in other things hee keepe the commandementes ought and may be made a priest vsing by name the word Sacerdos In a word Clement and Eusebius witnesse that Saint Peter liued to lead his wife vnto death for the name of Christ and comforted her being ioyfull that shee was called thereto Of Saint Paule the place of the 9. to the Corinthians alleadged by Clemens Alexandrinus doth giue a sufficient and most euident note and marke howsoeuer our aduersaries by the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 would vnderstand Mulierem a woman not Vxorem a wife and as for the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is ioyned therewithall they weigh it not But yet notwithstanding Clemens Alexandrinus neere vnto the time of the Apostles vnderstood it of mariage And Tertullian alluding thereunto Tertul. in exhor ad castir c. 8. Hillar in Psal 118. sgnat ad Philadeph saith It was allowed the Apostles to marrie and to leade their wiues about with them And Saint Hillarie concludeth That virginitie and abstaining from mariage is of free will and not of necessitie These are the oldest writers But Ignatius the disciple of S. Iohn cutteth off all saying Virgines I reioyce with you because of your holines euen as I reioyce in Elias Iosua Melchisedech Elisaeus Ieremie Iohn Baptist S. Iohn Timothie Titus Euodius and Clemens all which liued vnmaried But not saith he afterward that I would detract or withdraw any thing from the rest of the Saintes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for liuing in mariage For on the contrarie I long and earnestly desire that God would make me worthie to sitte at their feete in the kingdome of heauen euen at the fecte of Abraham Isaac and Iacob Ioseph Esay and other the Prophets of Peter also and Paule and other the Apostle who ledde a maried life Note this word Leade or keepe company to signifie that they had not put away their wiues as also it is to be noted how he putteth them in the number with Abraham and Isaac who continually without ceasing kept houshold together with them Then he concludeth If therefore any man confesse God and Christ Mixtionem legitimam vz. copulam Habet 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Euseb l. 3 c 30. ex Clement Act. 21. and notwithstanding call 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the lawfull bedde vncleannes or pollution or abhorreth any kinde of meates by the same name such a one is inhabited and possessed by the Apostate Dragon that is by the Deuill Clement saith of Philip the Apostle that he was maried had children and maried his daughters The Actes make mention of Philip the Euangelist how that he had foure daughers In a word Platina maketh mention that S. Luke liued a married man hauing his wife in Bithynia till hee were fourescore and three yeares old And the Nicolaitans do take their name from Nicolas the Deacon companion to S. Stephen of whose wife there is so oftentimes mention made in the historie of the church And likewise Clement the pretended successor of S. Peter Eus●b l. 3. c. 29. in the Epistle which is attributed vnto him speaketh of wife and children in such sorte as that it is likelie that he was maried himselfe To be short Polycrates Bishop of Ephesus saith to Pope Victor that hee is the eight Bishoppe of his race being come of seuen predecessors Bishops Our aduersaries do make great account of the Canons of the Apostles though they be declared to bee Apocrypha by Isidore himselfe Notwithstanding let vs heare them If the Bishop priest or Deacon c. do abstaine from mariage flesh or wine Canon Apost 50. not for to haue his spirit raised higher and lifted vp in the exercises of pietie but as hauing them in detestation let him be deposed and reiected of the Church and let him remember himselfe that God created them male and female c. They will say that this is meant against heretickes which absolutely condemned mariage and that they are no such But listen what is said vpon the same matter Let the bishop say they Priestor Deacon Canō Apost c. 5. D. 28. Si quis docuerit D. 31. quicunque declar C. 11. in ●ecret Clem Alex. l. 2. c. 10. Paedag. 3. strom haue no cause to put away reiect their wiues vnder the colour of religion but and if they do it let them be cut off from the communion and if they perseuere continue let them be deposed Let vs go on see further of the old writers Ignatius his opinion is well enough witnessed vnto vs by the place aboue alleadged As also the opinion of Clemens Alexandrinus who teacheth that the maried vnmaried life haue both of them their diuers gifts meanes to serue God by that to liue well whether it be in the one or in the other is his gift so that he maketh thē equal Irenaeus maketh mention of a certain man named Mark an heretike who had corrupted defiled the wife of a certaine Deacon being a very faire womā wherby it apeareth that the orders of those times did not forbid them to marrie Hieronym de eccles script Tertullian was a priest as may appeare by that which Saint Ierome saith and maried as it may appeare by his bookes to his wife and yet a Martyr notwithstanding if we credite some men But the matter is that he falling to bee of Montanus his heresie did likewise embrace Montanus his opinions against mariage the steps and signes whereof are verie manifest and euident in his latter bookes but in so doing Tertul. in exhortat ad castit c. 8. he giueth some more scope vnto the word aboue alleadged Licebat Apostolis nubere vxores circumducere Licebat de euangeliis viuere c. It was lawfull for the Apostles to be maried and to lead their wiues about with them it was lawful for them to liue of the Gospell c. ioyning these two lawfull thinges together although he conclude that whatsoeuer is lawfull the same is not expedient And although hee condemne second mariages in all persons yet he teacheth vs that the Catholikes or Orthodoxes of his time did not so when he vpbraideth them with their Bishops which were not once onely Tertul. de Monogam c. 12. but twice maried saying For it seemeth that all things amongst you are lawfull for Bishops how many are there that rule ouer you haue beene twise maried which are not ashamed of themselues when they reade the wordes of the Apostle the husband of one onely wife Euseb l 4. c. 23. Dionysius Bishop of Corinth in an

flesh Now therewithall be it known that it is of the same time which we reade in the Canons That he which hath not a wife may haue a concubine not bee put from the communion for hauing of the same And this course of life they did not iudge to be to liue in the flesh or to liue reproachable and worthy of rebuke c. against the expresse cōmandement of Christ Gentilitas Grounded vpon the Gentiles and heretikes But look a little with me I pray you to the spring fountain from whence their diuinitie floweth Let vs take away saith it this reproch which the Gentiles might iustly obiect against vs that is to say because that the Gentils as we haue said ordained and decreed in many places that their priests should be vnmaried Innocent who liued not long after in his Epistle vnto Exuperius Bb. of Tholosa vttereth the same vpon the same foundation pains wheras the other hath alleadged the example of the Gentiles this fellow hath made him a shield of all the places which the Gnosticks 1. Tim. 4. Montanists Marcionites Manichies did abuse against mariage that is of the doctrine of deuils of the spirits of error aforesaid by the Apostle But this law was not receiued and imbraced all at one time The proceeding of the executing thereof as may plainly be seen by the Prouinciall Councels that insued as being troubled with the renewing and further establishing of the same from time to time with the addition of some one article or other but by little and little by large distances of time betwixt point and point and in the reuolution of diuers ages the Popes continually gaining and incroaching sometime by the example of some one Prouince set against another and sometimes by the power of great Princes standing in need of their authoritie Tertullian had rough hewed the same in Africke by his writinges Conc. Carth. 2. c. 2. Then Syricius caused a councell to be held at Carthage where he caused this decree to be propounded by Faustine Bishop of Potentia in the Marquesdome of Ancona Whereupon it was pronounced That they which did handle the sacramentes should keepe themselues chaste and abstaine from their owne wiues as though chastitie were not properly so called in regard of mariage And that it might the smoothlier passe they adde To the end that we may obserue that which the Apostles haue taught which antiquity hath obserued But Gratian was ashamed of this reason therefore to couer this lie he added this word Exemplo that which they haue taught by their example his conscience accusing him and telling him that the worde which they had taught was contray thereunto Grat. D. 84 Cum in praeter D. 82. C. Plurimos Conc l. Carthag 5. c. 3. D. 84. C. Cum de quorundam Pelag. 28. c. de Svracus ibi Gratian. And their Glosse saith vpon the word Antiquity that this antiquity cannot be deriued or fetcht frō any elder time then the time of Synecius that is that it was a very new late thing For it is granted that this second Councell of Carthage was held in his time in the fift held within a while after vnder Pope Anastasius the Canon is renewed but in more mild termes grounded vpon the former decrees or such as were meerly their owne for there are diuers readings of the matter not vpon the Apostles But Pope Pelagius about the yeare 550. doth tell vs more boldly the intent scope of this decree in the cause of a Bb. of Siracuse in Sicily as namely that The principall cause shold be to auoid the spending of the goods of ecclesiasticall persons in the maintaining aduancing of their wife children or kins folke c. Where Gratian addeth And therefore such authoritie doth not let but that a man which shal be chosen Bb. may take a wife and haue children it being pronided that he take very good heed as did this Bb. of Siracuse that hee do not lauishly spend and consame them And whereas none can be chosen but such a one as is either priest or Deacon Leo. 1. D. 31. in ep ad episc Maurit Hilar. they may lawfully take vpon them the maried estate Leo the first saith Let them not put away their wiues but let them abstain from them Again he commandeth the Bbs. of Mauritania to depriue of their charges such as haue had many wiues And Hilarius the second would haue them depriued who had maried widowes or any other then maids and yet amidst all these inhibitions we see that mariage continued In a word Sidon Apollinar in ep ad Aquil. Euag l. 1. c. 15. that great and worthy person Sidonius Apollinaris Bishop of Auernia was maried and had children after he was Bishop And Synesius Platonicus refused to be Bb. of Damascus if he might not be suffered to lie with his lawfull wife Protesting openly affirming that he would pray oftentimes vnto God to giue him children and it was granted him And at this time that is about the yeare 600. Olympiodorus writ Olympiod in Eccleslast 3. cap. There is a time when wee may keepe company with our wiues to auoid the temptations of the enemie●● and there is a time when we are not to come neere them as when we are to powre out our praiers before God Let vs peruse and ouerlooke the Prouinces and countries abroad The resistances made against the receruing of this Decree In Fraunce to see and obserue the difficulties which did euery where breake out when the execution of this writte and Decree should bee put in practise In Fraunce wee see it renewed after some importunitie vsed in procuring and furthering of the same in the councels of Agatha Aurange Aruernia Orleance Tours Mascon Auxerre c. And yet it is certaine that the first Councell of Tours did mittigate the punishment contenting it selfe not to promote to any higher degree those which were maried after they had taken orders And by the second Councell of Tours held vnder king Cherebert Concil 2. C. 13 14.2 c. c. almost 160. yeares after the decree it appeareth that the Bbs Priests Deacons were as yet maried and that their wiues were called Women bishops women priestes and women Deacons which liued with thē only they were forbidden to lie with thē and were punished when they were taken doing otherwise The same appeareth by the councel of Auxerre held after the yeare 600. Concil Altisiod c. 21.22 by which it was forbidden to sleepe in the same bed with them and to mingle themselues in sinne as also their wiues to marrie againe a hard commission to the Archpriestes to watch betwixt the husband and the wife We haue said that Sidonius Apollinaris Bishop of Auernia was married Soluian Epise Massi● l. ● de prouid Dei and had children being a Bishop But let vs heare Saluian the Bishop of