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A17084	The gratulation of the mooste famous clerke M. Martin Bucer a man of no lesse learninge and lyterature, then godlye studie and example of lyuing, vnto the churche of Englande for the restitucion of Christes religion. And hys answere vnto the two raylinge epistles of Steue[n], Bisshoppe of Winchester, concerninge the vnmaried state of preestes and cloysterars, wherein is euidently declared, that it is against the lawes of God, and of his churche to require of all suche as be and must be admitted to preesthood, to refrain from holye matrimonie. Translated out of Latin in to Englishe.; Gratulatio ad Ecclesiam Anglicanam. English	Bucer, Martin, 1491-1551.; Hoby, Thomas, Sir, 1530-1566.	1549 (1549)	STC 3963; ESTC S106007	62,277	167

spirite the onely guyde vnto al veritie vpon them that hereby instructed to helthe by fayth they may be dayly more perfecte and apte to all good workes as Gods seruaunte accordynge to the promyse of the holye ghooste manyfested by the Apostle Paule To the whiche felicitie ye prepare awaye for them and specially in expoundynge so plainelye and substancially the nature and efficacye of the trew and Christiane fayth which first of al must be learned by y e scriptures separate it so religiously frō the dead faythe Here also ye declare a●d with most euydent testimonies of scripture confirme Fyrste into how great myserye deathe we are al caste headlōg through the synne of our former parēt Adam Afterwarde how we are delyuered from thys perdition by the onely grace of God by the merytes and resurrection of hys sonne iustifyed in Gods syght taken by adoption of hym for children and heyres Finallye what the studye workes of thē ought to be which are so iustifyed renued By thys so happye and perfect a restitutiō of Christes doctryne ye so enlarge al christes kyngdom with your mē y t there can remaine for no long season any remnant of the olde leuen in anye parte of the ceremonyes or discypline For whiche your men can be ignorant from hensforth that Gods sacramentes ought so whollye to be mynystred as Christ hym self left add gaue them vnto vs so that throughe them hys grace and helth some partakynge may be preached ●et furth signed vnto al moste plainelye and godly whiche oughte to be partakers of them so that they maye profitte greatly to the vndoubted settyng furth and reedifyenge of faythe and all godlynes Uvho also can not know that al the ceremonies of the churches al discipline as wel of the Clergye and the laytye shoulde be so repayred retayned and daylye had in practyse that the gospell and Christes sacramentes may be ministred and receaued with so moche the more dignitie and holynes The whiche happye obtaynynge of Christes gyftes and workes the old aduersary of mankynde bearynge in mynde goeth aboute with toothe and nayle as in fore tymes so nowe also to brynge to passe that men shoulde eyther not reade the scriptures at all or at the least wyse not reade them as thynges that myght teach and instructe vs suffiefficiētly for our helth or els not be vnderstanded of thēselues without the traditions and interpretatiō of the churche as they falsely name it For whome he can perswade that those which are called the traditions of the church shoulde be had in like estimatiō and honour with the verie scripture of God that there is no right interpretation of the scripture vnlesse the Romishe seat hathe approued it vnder the name of al Christes church Those can he also easely afterward make beleue and cause to receaue any of hys iuglinges cloked with the titles other of the traditions or interpretations of the churche and so withdrawen by a litle and litle from Gods liuely worde and gouernaunce addict them altogether vnto hys moste detestable doctryne and tyrannye For vnto those furthwith as we see experience he establyssheth thys hys determination of deade faythe that they thinke that who so is indued therewith that is to witte who so say and affirme that they obserue all thynges what soeuer the Romysh seate geueth furthe to be beleued whether it be of y e scriptures or theyr fayninges they are strayght furthe and must be counted notwithstanding though they denye apparantly in theyr dedes Christes trewe and lyuely faythe not onely to be of the commune sorte but also the chiefe rulers of the churche yf thei once come into that place by the permissyon and fauoure of the Romysh seate Uvherevnto immediatly he addeth another one of the chief●st snares of soules the determination of the infinite dignitie immunitie and power of hys cleargye but chiefly of the Byshop of Rome whiche he beateth into mens heades that al those whome the Bysshop of Rome once admitteth acknowlegeth in hys cleargye muste be iudged and corrected of none but onely of the Bysshoppe of Rome and he of no lyuyng creature no not of the very counsayl though he drawe with hym manye milians of soules to hell Also that heauen gates can be opē to no man whiche commeth not thyther fauored of him and purged with his ceremonies Finally that he hathe in his keapinge the keyes of heauen earth and hell so that it is in hys power to bynde and to ●oule at hys wyll and pleasure al lawes and Empires And that he is the veraye Lorde of the whole worlde and trew possessor of al the ryches therof and yet nother man nor God Yes truely a God of y e earth Uvith these snares meny entangled and kepte folowe moste communlye theyr lyfe whome they suppose are apointed guydes vnto them to the blessed and happye lyfe And albeit they treade vnder foote the Sonne of God with theyr manyfest mischeues flagitiousnes and counte hys blood prophane notwithstādyng they promyse that God wyl be mercyfull vnto thē and at lengthe after tollerable purgation obtayne the happye and blessed lyfe so that perseuerynge in the obey●aunce towardes the Romyshe seate communicatynge of the ceremonyes how soeuer they be approued by the same seate get and obtayne the i●dulgenties of the same seate and intercessyon of the sayntes by those wayes whiche the same seate hath prescrybed This is the cause y t al they y t be are the name of Christians few excepte haue ben seduced and gone headling into so muche vngodlines abomination y t we are therfor abominable euen vnto the Turkes ¶ Uve ought therfore of bounde dutye to thanke God greatly our sauyour for you whome he hath minded breaking so happilye these which were ones most strayte bondes of y e deuil and driuyng away that darkenes to bryng your selues youres vnder y e happie plesaunt yoke of our Lorde Iesus Christ into a kingdom of lyght and euerlastyng libertie for bycause ye restore prayse vnto al the readyng authoritie of holye scripture on thys maner as we se by thes hedde princyples of al christiā doctryne expound thē so godly holy Cōcerning y t trew and li●ely fayth in Christ. The perditiō of al mankynd by the former ●arthlye Adā The rest● tution and renouation of the elect by the other heauenly Adam And then duties which are so restored renued For now your men who so will thankefully receaue these so great benefittes of Christe at your hande shalbe instructed daylye more and more by these holye letters to all godlynes and helth and framed to all good worke bothe openly priuately And that not alonelye the stronge in faythe but also the weake for hereof as ye declare agreyng with S Fulgentius Christes suckelynges may sucke no lesse theyr milke reason simplicitie then the strong in faythe comprehende sounde meate

many tymes vngodly vowes are made of diuers preestes and monastical parsons whiche emonge a thousande truelye scarse one hath in mynde to kepe especyally godlye to saye to serue God therebye and to execute the ministerye of the church so moche the more holye and fru●tfully Uvhiche they all declare to grosselye who are by no externall compultyon restraynt and had rather take vpon them any labours or paynes then those that properlye pertayne to the monasticall and priestlye order To be short Uvynchester knoweth thys also with what clemencye God hym selfe and the holye fathers remitted them the vowe of chastitie that obserued it euell The holy ghooste planelye commaunded the yonger wemē to marye which had broken theyr first promyse after they were in ieopardy of vncleannes and euell reporte These seynge they are Gods wordes bothe belonge vnto all that fynde themselues in that ieopardye that is here expressed and also are greater then all the exception of mans vowe or decre Saynte Cyprian perceauynge thys writte concernynge the vyrgynes which professed chastitye and that not of hys owne opinyon onlye but also of certayn that were of the same order yea and of the whole churche to Yf they wyll not continewe or can not it is better for them to mary then to falle into the fyre by theyr deliciousnes Truely they shoulde offende nother bretherne nor systerne So Saynt Epiphanius declareth also that it is better for hym that leaueth the iournaye and vowe of chastitie to marie a wyfe openly agreable with the lawe and so to fall 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is as he him selfe interpreteth it into the iudgemente of repentaunce done for a season whiche fynysshed he maye be brought into the churche agayne then vnder the dissimulation of chastitie to be dayelye wounded with priuye dartes and so for fornication to falle 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is into condemnation wherebye suche are cleane expelled out of Christes kyngedome For thys cause also were not the maryages in Saynt Austines tyme whiche were made after the vowe of chastitye dissolued nor yet counted damnable And the great assemble at Calcedonia licensed expressedly Bysshoppes to remit the vowe of chastitie Also Galatyus the Pope left the wemen that maryed after they professed and vowed chastitie to God to theyr owne conscience ¶ Here therfore let Wynchester answere fro whens he and hys fellowes haue so moche the more seueritie and cruelnesse graunted them to make inquisition for vowes then those holye fathers had But what saye I to make inquisition for vowes To seeke I shoulde haue saide that no man after he ha●he vowed chastitie be lefullye maried For that the vowes of holye Chastitie shoulde excell that is to say that they who so haue made suche vowes shoulde cleaue so moch the more without seperation vnto God and serue the churche more fruetefullye who maketh inquisition Nother may that fayned matter concernynge the symple and solemne vowe make anye thynge agaynste thys For the religyon of all vowes made vnto GOD is equalle so that the godly shoulde obserue it yf it agre with the lawe of God and forsake it yf it disagre to the worde of God It is also euydente ynough that no greater thyng can be in suche vowes as the authoures of that fayned matter make solemne then is in the other whiche the holye fathers whose opinions I haue alledged thought best to be remitted and broken For with these vowes men haue consecrated themselues vnto God as it is the chiefest thynge requyred in euerye godly vowe Thes thinges let Uvynchesters waye and depelie consyder and yf he cā shew that it is not here made plain that the same lawe whose defense he hathe taken vpon him whiche forbiddethe al that are ons receaued or must be receaued in to the order of prestes or salitarie lyfe to marye cā not onlie be defended by no authoritie o● Christes churche or holye fathers but also is cleane cōtrarye both to Gods very lawe and also to the trewe and catholike Canons of Gods holye churche and to the wholl consent of all the holye and right opinionid fathers Herin therfor let Uvynchester do the office of a bisshop shewe yf he cā by trewe argumentes that we are in an erroure and cease to depraue by suche triflinge and vngodlie tawntes the dyuine and holie fathers sentenses and to peruerte and mistake with his rayling sophistrie owre confessiō settforthe plainelie and holilie to scrape to gether withe moche a do wynking at oure perfecte sounde argumētes here and there a worde by his scoffinges to boaste an derake hym selfe in doubtfull places wherin the cause cōsisteth not leapinge ouer to fauorablie gently the trewe foundations of oure confessyon and the moste clere testimonies of the holy scriptures For thes thinges are farr vnsemelye not onlye for a Bisshope but for an other man with that currishe and doggishe eloquence wherof he coulde in thes his writinges against me make nother measure nor ende And this I suppose be suffycyentlye spoken concerninge the seconde place of oure defense Uvherin I tooke vpō me to teache that the aucthoritie of the holye fathers is cleane contrarye both to the lawe of God and also of his church for so moche as they require and compell all that are or must be admitted to preesthod or monasticall lyfe to forsweare and to abstain from holye matrimonie Now let vs make answere to the lye whiche Uvinchester falselye and wrongefullye laythe to my charge wherof I entended to speake in some certain place Uvinchester denieth that y e same fained matter concerning the necessite wherbye y e father shold be constrained to geue his doughter in mariage by y e reason of his smale substāce came into his braine which I affirmed vnto Latomus I harde of him in oure communication together I in faith call to recorde Christe oure lord the iu●ge of the quicke and the dead and the keaper in memorie of all our dedes wordes and wishe his anger to extēde vpon me if euer I minded to faine one word against him haue not plainelie declared without anie thought of deceipt what so euer I remember I harde of him Certainlie it seme to me a verie absurde interpretation wheter he speake it in erneste or to proue or mocke be with all yet as farr as I colde gather ●e seemed to me to speake it in earneste notwithstanding he soake manie thinges with great arrogācie in thesame communication whiche were no lesse made For what maner a thing iuge ye this that he durste defende thos princes and rulars to do well whiche punishe more straitlie a sharplie their owne lawes then gods and which make it death if anie prest marie a wife but adulterie and horei●unting they leaue vnpunisshed This dare I be bolde before God the searcher of hartes to boaste of his gift that I euer tooke care for this and was verie circunspect in all strife of religon emonge my