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A14369	A stronge defence of the maryage of pryestes agaynste the Pope Eustachians, and Tatanites of our time, made dialogue wise by Iohn Veron, betwixte Robin Papyste, and the true Christian.	Véron, John, d. 1563.	1562 (1562)	STC 24687; ESTC S106223	65,756	176

greuously ¶ Robyn Papyst Obiection I praye you geue me a litell leaue to speake if nowe your wife that is wedded vnto you by the lawes of god and of the realme shuld in your life time go take another husbande would not all the worlde counte her an adulteresse What ought then to be sayd of those women that beyng wedded vnto Christe by a solemne promisse or vowe be not affrayed theyr husbande being aliue to take mortall and sinnefull men to theyr husbandes The like may be sayd of the men whether they be seculare priestes or other for as they saye they be al maried vnto our lady and vnto our mother the holy church ¶ The true Christian It is not for nought that sainct Augustine doth both write and say Aunswere that they which iudge or coumpte those persons August 27. questio 1. cap. nuptiarum whiche marye after theyr vowe to be adulterers are shamefullye deceyued by a foolishe similitude meaning the selfe same similitude that ye haue nowe aledged and brought in Ye shal then vnderstand that we are al both men and womē as many as do pertaine to the couenaunt of life maried vnto the lorde For Osee ii thus he sayeth him selfe vnto his faythful congregation church I will mary the vnto me in fayth Againe bee not these the wordes of sayncte Paule ii Cor. xi I haue coupled you speaking to the hole churche of Corinthus to one man to make you a chaste virgin to Christe In howe many places is the faythfull congregation or churche called the spouse and wise of the lambe Ye learne by this that we are al Reuela xix Ephesi v. as manye as do beleue and put our trust in the euer-liuing and eternal god the spouse of our sauiour Iesu Christe Therefore we nede not to be maried or wedded to him by suche kinde of newe forged vowes sith that we are already through faythe whereby we do apprehend and take holde vpon the couenaunte that God hathe made betwyxt him and vs so surelye maried to him Ephe. v. being in manye and sondrye places of the scriptures called the spouse wife of the lambe I meane of the onely begotten sonne of God our sauiour Iesu Chryste who hath so loued vs that he gaue him selfe for vs to sanctifye and clense vs in the fountayne of water through the word to make vs to him selfe a glorious congregation without spotte or wrinkle or any such thinge that so we mighte be holye and wythout blame To tell you the truth it is rather to be beleued that by such inuēted vowes whych we may well call doctrines of deuels we are vtterlye separated and diuorsed frō our true husbande our sauiour Iesu Chryste By popishe vowes we are separated and diuorsed frō our true husband our sauiour Iesu Christ and coupled or maried vnto Idolles I meane vnto deade creatures whych we knowe not whether they be in heauen or in hell For by them some be maried to Frauncys some to Dominike some to Augustine and some to this or that sayncte at least they call theym so and so poore Christ the only husband of the true christian church is vtterly forsaken and not once thought vpon All ye then that throughe ignoraunce and errour haue coupled your selues vnto such vnlawefull husbandes with whom ye do dayly and hourely commit spirituall whoredome whyche is the mother and nurce of al filthye and stinkyng abhomination whiche is committed in the bodye to the vtter castyng away of the soule Spirituall whoredome is mother and nurce of all filthye and stinking abhomination Rom. i. repent betimes and come agayne to youre true and lawefull husbande our sauiour Iesu Christe and stycke to his lawes whereby he hathe ordeyned and appoynted i. Cor. vii that for auoydinge of whoredome euerye man shoulde haue his wyfe and euerye woman her husbande Let it not moue you that ye haue made a promisse syth that it was made vnaduisedlye and wythoute deliberation and againe sith that it can not be fulfilled without committing great wickednesse and mischiefe For as ye learn by the canone heretofore alledged rehearced such a promisse is vngodly and ought in no wise to be kept It is not vnknowen that many vnder the pretence and coloure of keping of their vowes or because that they would not seme to breake them haue committed most shamefull and horrible murthers We do reade in a certayne epistell that a famous clerke called Huldarichus Huldaricus ad Nicolaum papam beynge then byshop of August did write vnto Pope Nicolas being firste of that name that Gregorye did on a tyme cause one of his ponds to be drawen and that there was founde in it aboue sixe thousand heades of yonge infantes which had bene murthered cast into it A notable historie by those that by theyr violent and tirannous lawes were forbidden to marye The repentaunce and sobbing of Gregory Whiche when Gregory did see being wonderfullie moued in his mind did with sighing and sobbinge praise and commende highly the sayinge of Sainct Paule 1. Cor. vii where he writeth and sayth Better it is to marry than to burne addyng vnto it yea better it is to marrye and to suffer to marry than to geue occasyon of such a shameful murther and chyldren slaughter Thys was done in Gregories time many hundreth yeares ago What thinke ye hath bene done sence among so manye thousand of Nonnes and friers whyche are spreade abrode throughe oute all the hole worlde I doe here Let passe the Sodoniticall and filthy actes that these marked mounsters of Antichriste doe perpretrate and committe amonge them selues yf they chaunce to want and lacke women And all this doe they forsothe that they maye seme vnto men to kepe the promysse vowe that they haue made But as Isidorus saieth What an vngodly promise is vngodly is that promisse that is fulfilled with such wickednes and mischiefe Therefore moste derely beloued bretherne and systers in Chryste breake such dyuelishe promysses and vowes betimes come awaye from that whorysh and bloudy generation vnto your true and lawful husbande our sauiour Iesu Chryst if ye haue not the gifte of chastitie couple your selues in honest Matrimony hauing the feare of God before youre eyes that ye may kepe your selues vndefiled members of oure Sauioure Iesu Chryste Robyn Papyst I am sory that I haue brought you so farre from the mattyer that ye were in I am affrayed that ye wyll scarcely remember where ye lefte The true Christian Take ye no thought for that I remember as wel where I lefte as yf I had made no degression at al. We were in the secōd point which I said ought to be consydered in making of a vow And in it besydes that which hathe bene sayde alredye this ought diligentlye to be obserued marked Syth that we are able to do nothing of oure selues We muste vow nothyng that maye let vs in

which as ye saye doeth continew all the dayes of theyr lyfe they shoulde drinke no wine Thys law wold in no wyse please the pryestes of our tyme. For they loue good drinke to well nor no kinde of stronge beere or ale For thus sayth the lord vnto Aeron rhou and thy sonnes shal drinke no wine nor any kind of strong drinke when ye shall come into the tabernakle of witnesse He must also forbyd them to shaue theyr heades Leui. xxi and the corners of theyr beardes For God dyd forbyd the pryestes of the old Testament the same Anye man maye see that the Pope hathe no more iuste cause to forbyd hys priestes to mary than to forbyd them the other thinges heretofore reherced and named Wherefore The ordynaunce of the pope is a ioly bayte for the deuel for to ketche the soules of men and women with all all that he doeth is nothinge elles but a playne tyrannye whereby he doeth caste awaye the soules not onely of hys pryestes but also of manye pore women and maidens and also whereby he doeth engender in the worlde a most detestable whoredom and filthy Sodomy Whe doeth he presume I beseche you to commaunde anye man that hathe not the gyfte of chastytye to liue withoute the remedie that God hathe appoynted for euerye man If a Prieste hathe the gifte of chastetie he nedeth not to commaunde him to liue chastelie yf he hathe it not why doeth he laye suche an heauye yocke vpon his necke Doth the Pope and his priests thinke to rule god as they list He may if he lyst for he is god in earthe if your holy father the pope hath such a delight to haue his priestes to be wiuelesse why doeth not he hym selfe geue them the gift of chastitye Robyn Papyst God onely geueth the gifte of chastitie as he doeth all other giftes Obiection therefore they muste aske it of him with faithfull and earnest prayers and withoute doubte they shall obteine it For oure Sauioure Iesus Christe saieth Math. vii Mar. xi Luke xi Aske and it shall be geuen vnto you Seke and ye shall finde Knocke and it shall be open vnto you The true Christian What soeuer is necessarye vnto saluation we haue a promise in the scriptures that we shall obteine it of God if we doe aske it in faithe Aunswere Agayne where haue they a promyse that god wyll geue the gyft of chastitye vnto all those that the pope doth forbyd to marye But howe shall ye be able to proue that to lyue withoute a wife is a thinge necessarye vnto saluacion Therefore if a man not hauinge the gifte of chastitie or not being called there to of the Lorde doeth wilfullye and for hys owne pleasure seperate or bannyshe hym selfe for euer frome the holye estate of Matrymonye he doeth moste paryllouslye tempte god For whosoeuer he be that wyll not vse in his necessity What it is to tempt god the same natural remedy that god hath ordeined and appoynted withoute all doubte he doeth tempte God Euen as yf a man wolde neither eate nor drinke though hunger dyd come vpon hym neuer so muche but forsak●nge all kinde of meates and drynkes that god hath ordeined for the vse of man he should desire of God that he wold take awaye hys hunger by his absolute power Should not suche a man tempte God wold ye not iudge such a man to be a despyser of the ordeynaunces of the Lord. And if he shold dye Murtherers of them selues wolde ye not iudge hym to be a murtherer of him selfe I say that it is as harde for a man whiche hathe not the gifte of chastitie to kepe him selfe from falling into sinne as it is for him to lyue withoute meate and drinke Math. iiii without the speciall gyfte of the Lorde We doe reade that oure sauiour Iesus Christ dyd fast fortye dayes .xl. nyg●ts and that al that space he did neither eate nor drynke but that he dyd hunger at lengthe and that the Aungels minystred vnto him Whereby it doeth appeare that when he was a hungerd he did both eate and drinke vsing the lawfull remedies and meanes that hys heauenly father hath appointed When the gift of chastitie is taken away from a man he must vse the remedye that God hath appointed So it hapneth many tymes that a man hath the gifte of chastitye for a time but that afterwardes it is taken awaye from hym Then muste he vse the remedye that god hath appoynted and ordeyned is it not to tempe God whan a man feelinge the fyer of concupyscence that burneth and tormenteth hym if he wyll not vse the water that GOD offreth vnto him whiche is maryage Mariage is the lawefull water for to quenche the fyer of concupiscence It is euen as if a man seinge hys house on fier wolde not vse the waters that be rounde aboute it for to quenche the burnynge but wold say let it alone God will quenche it Verelye I say vnto you that whosoeuer doeth in his necessitie despise the ordynaunce of god and hathe lieffer burne than to mary he shal neuer be chaste but his bed shal alwaies be polluted and defiled The punishement of those that despise matrimonye and as long as he shall despise the holye estate of matrimonye or refuse to vse it god will neuer geue him the gift of chastety but suffer him to burne and to be tormented in his fleshe and to fall from one sinne into another For do ye thinke that god doth loue them that do despyse his ordeynaunces in theyr necessitie Do not such persons declare them selues to be most vnthankeful vnto him In dede if a man be constrayned to be awaye from his wife for a time When we oughte to praye most earnestlye for the gifte of chastitye for to folowe his vocation that god hathe called him to it is his duetye to pray vnto god that he vouchesafe to mortifye and quenche suche fyer of concupiscence in him duringe the time that he is awaye from his wife and truly such a man oughte to beleue that god wil heare him if he doth praye wyth a faythfull heart hauinge the feare of God before his eyes ¶ Robyn Papyst This besydes they sayde in theyr sermons that when Dauid came to Abimelech and required him that he would geue him of the holy loues whych they call the shewe breade i. Samu. xxi The thyrd argument of the papistes of our time ▪ or euer Abimelech the highe prieste woulde geue him anye he dyd aske him whether both he and his companions has kept them selues clene from theyr wiues And hereupo● did they aledge sayncte Hierome who writinge vppon the epistell to Titus doth saye these wordes The shewe breade did signify and represent the bodye of oure sauioure Iesu Christe Therfore let theym Hierome vppon the epistell to Titus that will eate the bodye of our sauioure Iesu Christe abstayne from theyr