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A30358	An impartial survey and comparison of the Protestant religion as by law established, with the main doctrines of popery wherein is shewn that popery is contrary to scripture, primitive fathers and councils ... / by a true son of the Protestant Church of England as established by law.	Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.	1685 (1685)	Wing B5804; ESTC R37520	34,751	80

Id. de matrim l. 1. c. 21. denies Marriage to the Clergy but permits I suppose by way of requital to them Concubines (91) Hence did Aeneas Sylvius afterwards Pope by the name of Pius 11. mention how Vlric Bishop of Ausburg reprov'd the Pope concerning Concubines Aentas Sylvius de morib Germani e. For so doth (*) Dist 82. Can. Presbyter in Glossa Cardinal Campegius observe and Pighius teach which doth not only give great cause of scandal to Jews and Infidels but in (92) 1 Tim. 4.1 3. the Holy Apostles judgement is the Doctrine of Devils And the Reason of Concubinage may be easily inferr'd when some (93) Coster Enchiridion de caelibat prop. 9. Durandus sent l. 4. dist 33. Martinus de Magistris lib. de temp qu 2. de luxuria 3. Qu. 7. Lata Extravag de bigamis Quia circa Communiter dicitur Quod Clericus pro simplici formicatione deponi non debet dist 81. Maximianus glossa in Gratian. of their most Learned Men will scarce allow Fornication to be a Sin however preferring it in Ecclesiastics before lawful Wedlock The forbidding of Marriage is Contrary to Scripture Levit. 21.13 1 Tim. 3 2 12. Heb. 13.4 1 Cor. 7.2 9. That the Apostles were Married except St. John is Confessed by these Fathers Ignatius ad Philadelph Clemens Stromat lib. 7. Euseb Histor Eccles lib. 3. c. 30. who report that St. Paul was Married and St. Ambrose in 2 Cor. c. 11. who acknowledges that all the Apostles except St. John were Married Fathers that were Married themselves and yet were either Bishops or Priests c. Tertullian as appears by his Two Books to his Wife and yet he was a Priest as appears from St. Jerome de Eccles Script Gregory Nazianzen was the Son of a Bishop see Greg. Nazianz. in carmine de vita suâ Elias Cretensis in Orat. Greg. Nazianz. St. Hilary Bishop of Poictiers was Married as is evident from his Epistle written to his Daughter Abrae c. Fathers Voting for or acknowledging Matrimony in the Clergy Salvian de providentiâ l. 5. Ambrose Offic. l. 1. c. ult Chrysostome in Epist ad Tit. Homil. 2. Id. in Epist ad Hebraeos Homil. 7. Epiphanius contra Origenian Theodoret. in 1 Tim. 4. Isidore Reg. de vit Cleric dist 23. c. His igitur Theophylact in 1 Tim. 13. Bernard in Cant. Serm. 66. Aeneas Sylvius Epistol 308. and he lived An. Dom. 1458. Marriage of the Clergy was not absolutely forbidden by the Greeks in the last Age as appears by the Patriarch Hieremias's Letter to the Tubing Divines dated May 15. 1576. Primum Patriar Resp apud Chytrae de statu Eccles Orient p. 149. This Heretical Doctrine of forced Celibate in Ecclesiastics was first established at Rome by Pope Gregory the 7th alias Hildebrand termed Antichrist by (94) Aventinus Anual Boiorum l. 5. who tells us That Hildebrand confessed when he was dying that it was by the instigation of the Devil that he made so great a disturbance in the Christian World A fit Man then was he whom the Papists still cry up so much to introduce unchast Celibate and banish Holy Matrimony See also Cardinal Benno who knew him in vita gesta Hildebrandi Matth. Westmonast An. Dom. 1074. who saith That Hildebrand expell'd Married Priests Mark what follows contra Sanctorum Patrum sententias against the opinions of the Holy Fathers See also Sigebert ad Annum 1074. Matth. Paris ad Annum 1074. Ancient Historians about A. D. 1074. and was first put in practice to purpose by Anselm Arch-Bishop of Canterbury (95) Henry Huntington p. 378. and by Joranal Histor The Constiutions or this Synod may be seen in Archbishop Parker's Antiq. Britan. Ed. 2. p. 118 119. here in England about A. D. 1105. (96) Dr. Burnet's Abridgement of the History of the Reformation l. 8. p. 70 c. though some will have his Predecessor Lanfranc to have imposed it upon the Prebendaries and Clergy that lived in Towns but not without great reluctancy For what complaints what Tragedies what lascivious pranks this Devillish Doctrine occasioned the Historians declare at large particularly that Comical Story of the Italian Cardinal John de Crema Recorded by Ancient (97) Roger Hovedon Henry Huntington Popish Historians who after he had entertained the English Clergy with a fine Discourse against Marriage was the same night caught in Bed with a Harlot in London as if he would only commend Virginity to others and practise the contrary himself That the Reader may know what an Age this was wherein the Celibate of the Clergy was established let him hear Cardinal Bellarmin describing and characterizing it in his Chronology In these times saith he wherein the Roman Bishops did degenerate from the Piety of the Ancients mark that the secular Princes flourished in Holiness You therefore see that Priests Marriage was forbidden by impious Popes And about the beginning of this contention viz. about An. Dom. 860 the Pope got a round check from Vdalricus or Vlric (98) Vdalricus mentioned by Aeneas Sylvius de moribus Germaniae de Caelibatu Clerici Nunquid enim merito communi omnium sapientum judicio haec est violentia c. a Bishop of that time who told him That in the judgment of all wise men it was to be accounted violence when any man against Evangelical Institution mind that and the charge of the Holy Ghost is constrained to the execution of private Decrees The Lord in the old Law appointed Marriage to his Priest which he is never read afterwards to have forbidden But not to insist upon this clear testimomony for the Doctrine and Practice of our Church nor to mention the many other ill consequences of a Celibate in the Clergy which occasion in other Countries where Popish Religion is publickly professed that Satyrical Proverb to be Fils de prestre by some of the most eminent men in the Roman Church and those too of a late date it is Confessed That Priesthood doth not dissolve Marriage so Cardinal Cajetan Tom. 1. Tract 27. Nor That it is of the essence or being of a Priest to keep single so Dominicus Soto l. 7. de Jure Qu. 4. Moreover that upstart practice in the Roman Church of Auricular Confession wherein (99) Concil Trident. Sess 14. de poenitentiâ every Christian is bound under pain of Damnation to confess to a Priest all his mortal Sins which after a diligent examination he can possibly remember yea even his most secret sins his very thoughts yea and all the circumstances of them which are of any moment is a slavery as great as groundless Then not to mention its ill aspect upon Government as being made an engine of state and a Picklock of the Cabinets of Princes sealing up all things from the notice of the Magistrate but in requital of that making a liberal discovery of what is against him to others A pregnant instance of which horrid consequence