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A11054	A godlie and short discourse shewing not onely what time the inhabitants of this land first receyued the Christian faith: but also what maner of doctrine was planted in the same. Whereby may appeare, howe the reformation at this day in England is not a bringing in of a newe religion, but a reducing againe of the olde and auncient fayth.	Rosdell, Christopher, b. 1553 or 4.	1589 (1589)	STC 21320; ESTC S101597	36,383	98

that which is written to the Hebrews Where it is sayd Mariage is honourable among all Heb. 13. and the bed vndefiled But also was freely permitted to all sorts of men that were apt therunto and had néed of the same as it is written 1. Cor. 7. to auoid fornication let euery man haue his wife and let euery woman haue her husband But now the newe Catholikes of the Popes Church repute and cal mariage astate of imperfection and preferre single life be it neuer so impure before the same pretending that whereas the one replenisheth the earth the other filleth heauen Wherupō pope Ciricius in his decrées citeth that saying of the Apostle to wit they that are in the flesh cannot please God Rom. 8. against those that are lawfully maried And for this cause they haue of late dayes not regarding whether they had the gift of cōtinencie or no through coacted vowes restrained many both men and women from holy wedlocke not to the filling of heauen but rather to the stuffing vp of hel For from hence haue procéeded adulteries fornicatiōs Sodomitrie with great occasiō of murthering infants as we reade of infants heads that were taken vp in pope Gregories mote by hūdreds what time the lawful wedlock of ministers began first to be restrained Anno. 600. By which occasion the said pope Gregorie reuoked the canon he had made a little before inhibiting the lawfull mariage of ministers And Pope Pius the second said he saw many causes why ministers were to be restrained of mariage Platina in vita Pij 2. but he saw mo greater why they were to be permitted to marry Yea this is most certain that the nearer we come to the ancient time of the Church the lesse ancient shal we find the Romish doctrine in this point And to beginne with the Apostles and their owne examples canons who although they were not all maried yet diuers of them were and the rest had power and liberty to haue kéepe their wiues as witnesseth Paul saying 1. Cor. 9. haue we not power to lead about a wife being a sister as well as the rest of the Apostles Albeit Clemens Alexandrinus which was 200. yéeres after Christ denieth not but that Paul was maried beeing an Apostle as well as Peter and Philip. The Canons also which are said to be the Apostles say If any teach that a priest for religion sake ought to contemne his owne wife Can. Apost 6. Canon let him bee accursed Anno. 180. In the yeare of our Lord 180. we read of Policrates Bishop of Ephesus who dissenting from pope Victor about a certaine controuersie of Easter day alledgeth for himself how his progenitors before him seuen together one after another succéeded in that state he now the eight was placed in the same place Vsing this discent of his parents not onely as a defence of his cause but also a glory to himselfe In the Nicene councell Anno. 400. when some went about to restraine ministers from mariage Paphnutius a godly father himselfe béeing vnmaried resisted the same And likewise before this Anno. 300. Gangren Concil dist 28. the councell of Gangren which was Anno. 300. did establish the libertie of priests mariage as a thing both good and godly Moreouer procéeding yet in times and Chronicles of the Church we shall come to the sixt councel Concil Cōstant dist 35. cap. quoniam called the councel of Constantinople almost 700. yéeres after Christ The wordes of which councell be alledged in the decrées and be these in English Because in the order of the Romane Canon wee knowe it so to bee receyued that such as be Deacons and Priestes shall professe themselues to haue no more copulation with their wiues we following the ancient Canon of the diligent Apostles and constitutions of holy men enact that such lawfull marriage from hencefoorth shall stande in force in no case dissoluing their coniunction with their wiues neither depriuing them of their mutuall societie and familiaritie together in such time as they shall thinke conuenient Hitherto you haue heard the Decrée heare nowe the penaltie in the same Decree and destinction conteyned If anie therefore shall presume agaynst the Canons of the Apostles to depriue eyther Priest or Deacon from the touching and companie of his lawfull wife let him bee depriued Finally here in England till the comming of Anselme in the dayes of William Rufus Guiliel Malmsb. li. 1. de gestis pont and king Henrie the first of pope Hildebrand 1067. the restraint of ministers lawfull mariage was not publikely established for a law And as it was not yet entered in here no more was it in many other places of the world For Auentinus a faithfull writer of his time Exact syno Mediola Anno. 1070 who writing of the councell of Hildebrand saith Priests at that time had publikely wiues and did procreate children as other Christians Gebuilerus One of the Popes crew testifieth that in the time of the emperour Henrie 4. Anno. 1057. Anno. 1057 to the number of 24 Bishoppes both in Germanie Spaine France were maried with the Cleargie also of their Dioces Pope Symmachus disti 80. saith let Priests be restrained from the conuersation of all women except it be their mother sister or their owne wife Where the glose in the margent giueth this note Here he speaketh according to the ancient times Truly therefore is that verified in this later church of Rome which so many yéeres ago Paul prophecied foretold of namely that in the later times there shoulde some depart from the faith 1. Tim. 4. hearkening vnto spirits of error to the doctrines of deuils forbidding to marrie and cōmanding to abstain from meats which the Lord hath created to be taken with thankesgiuing To conclude therefore mariage in it selfe is either good or euil if it be good why do they forbid it if it be euil why do they make a sacramēt of it The xvij Chapter Of Magistrates and ciuill gouernement AS concerning Magistrates and ciuill gouernment what hath bene in old time the iudgement of the godly may manifestly appeare by that which Paul writeth to the Romanes saying Let euery soule be subiect to the higher powers Rom. 13. for there is no power but of God whosoeuer therefore resisteth the power resisteth the ordinance of God and they that resist shall receiue to thēselues iudgement Where first it is to be noted that the Apostles would that euery soule should be subiect to his lawfull magistrate Which words Chrysostome as hath beene alreadie shewed expoundeth of Priests Monkes Prophets Apostles Euangelists and what soeuer For if any pretende to bee exempted because hee is spirituall let him consider that none euer had such abundance of the spirite as Christ and yet was he subiect to the ciuill gouernement And if holinesse of life coulde discharge men from obedience to ciuill rulers who more holy then