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A09914 A defence for mariage of priestes by Scripture and aunciente wryters. Made by Iohn Ponet, Doctoure of Diuinitee. Ponet, John, 1516?-1556. 1549 (1549) STC 20176; ESTC S105304 28,704 99

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virginitee hynder the one Or dyd maryage hynder thother Thou seest Helias ridyng in a carte in the ayre Thou seest Moses passyng thorough the myddes of the sea Beholde Peter also a Piller of the Church had a wyfe c. In case that ye thynke that the exāples of Moses Helias and Peter be not enough I wyl be so bolde to bring example of Chrysostome to adde vnto theym thre hollye Abraham and all the rest of Patriarkes and Prophetes of the olde testament All the Apostles of Christ in the new testament Actu 21. Philip the euāgelist who had many doughters Cheremon a bishop in Egipt of a citie called Nilopolis These shall ye haue ●in Eccl●si histo of Euseb. Philias also whiche was bothe byshop and Marter and Policrates a Byshop of the Ephesians which sayd Seuen of my fore fathers by ordre wer Byshoppes of this See and I am the eyght Spiridion and a great numbre of holly men mo whiche all were maried highly in the fauour of God Mariage was no more hinderance to Abraham and the rest of the Patriarches touching the trew seruice of God and beyng in the fauour of god then it was to Moses Mariage was no hinderance to all the rest of the Apostles neither is it this day to any other godly man so that by the meanes thereof they bee not caste oute of the fauoure of God more then was sayncte Peter And saincte Ihon Chrysostom vpon the epistle to Tite sayeth Adeo preciosa res est matrimonium ut poss●t quis cum eo ad sanctum Episcopatus solium sub●ehi So precious a thynge is Matrimonye sayeth he that a manne maye ascende with it to the holly seat of a byshop Let then this vayne quarrell that mariage shoulde hynder enny man from the seruice of God be no more alledged as though there were a great matter in it when it is sufficientely shewed that there is none in deede But this geare they thynke wyll soone bee aunswered grauntynge that the Apostles and other holly bishops and priestes had wyues as I say Mary than will they say agayn that neither the apostles neyther the reste of the forenamed Ecclesiasticall persons had any matrimoniall vse of their wyfes after the tyme of their election to their ministery but did put them away and vtterly forsooke the companye of theim after that tyme. Well yet than graunt they that the apostles and other holy byshoppes and priestes had wiues euen in the tyme of their apostleshyp and ministerye whyche thyng I take at their handes as wonne good grounde For by that haue al they granted whiche flee to this obiection ▪ that a maried man maie be a prieste his wyfe being aliue After this victory then let vs thus procede The apostles they saie put awaye their wyues after the tyme they were called to the preachynge of the Gospell If I should aske ye howe you proue that shoulde not the beste reason or auctoritee that ye coulde bryng for your purpose bee blynde reason or coniecture Well answer what ye shal thynk good whā I haue made aunswere to your former obiection Whan ye speake of puttyng away of wyues it is conuenient that ye call to remembrance the laufull causes why a man may put awaye his wyfe by goddis woorde And in serchyng ye shall fynde there that a man can not put awaye his wyfe for any other cause Mat 5. 19. but for adulterye onely Than is the preachynge of the Gospell no cause why a man shoulde put away his wyfe Muche lesse for the Apostles of Christe whose lyfe was a rule to all the reste of the Christen congregation I trust you bee not so shamelesse that ye wyll chalenge the Apostles wynes to bee euyll women for the mayntenance of your fond reason And yet yf you woulde so dooe it maye be gathered by the Scripture that they were godlye and obedient women to their husbandes to your confusion It is to be thought that suche as Christe appoynted to rule the whole Congregacion were hable to rule their wyues their chyldren and family or elles shuld not Christ haue obserued the same rule in chusyng of his apostles as Paule prescribed to Timothye in chusynge a Bysshoppe 1. Tim. 3. If they were obedient wyues to their husbandes as by that scripture it may bee gathered that they were you must nedes graunt that the Apopostles dyd not put away their wyues for if they hadde they shoulde haue offended agaynste Goddes woorde who chargeth man not to put awaye his wyfe for any cause but for adultery only Thus then I conclude Goddes woorde sayeth that no man maye put awaye his wyfe excepte for adultery ergo they dyd not put them away Yea and further it maye be thus proued by scripture that they had Matrimoniall companye with theire wyues in thys wyse The worde of God was the onely rule of the Apostles lyfe So that what soeuer Goddes woorde commaunded them so they dyd But Gods worde commaunded them saiynge Vir uxori debitum reddat 1. Cor. 17 similiter et uxor uiro Let the man render the dutye of a husbande to his wyfe and the woman to her husbande Ergo the Apostles beyng ruled by the sayde scripture obeiyng gods worde in this poynte had matrimonial company with their wiues and did acordyngly as scripture willeth them For a profe wherof the scripture doth testify that the apostles the brothers of the Lord Cephas caried their wiues about with thē to what purpose I pray you if it wer not for the auoidynge of that inconuenience agaynste the whyche matrimonie is prouyded by god for remedye If a wyfe be a trouble to theim that be prieestes as some do alledge it why lefte they not theyr wiues at one place remainyng and discharged theim selues of so cloggyng a cariage as by the scripture it shoulde seeme that Paule dyd I doubt not but that they wold haue so doone yf the infirmitee of the fleshe had not dissuaded them to the contrary Retourne not to your former fantasy sayeng as ye bee wont that ye can not be answered for if ye can defende without blushyng that scripture rightly alleged is not sufficient to confound your coniecture whyche is directly agaynst it than is your face so blyndelesse that it can not blusshe A priest may not put awei his wife vnder p̄tence of holines And because no man should pretende a religious holynesse by the meanes whereof he myghte shyfte awaye his wyfe the apostles decreed as it appeereth in their Canons Apostolorū Can. 5. that Episcopus aut presbyter vxorem propriam nequaquā sub obtentu religionis abijciat A bysshop or a prieste in no wyse maie put awaie his wife vnder the pretence of holynesse and colour of religion by the whiche Canon it maie appeere that the apostles dyd not put away their wyues And yet came there a sorte of heritikes named Eustachiani shortly after the apostles tyme who sayde that priestes
pluck tharchebishop out of his chaire by the eares handling hym as he had deserued that there might a notable testimony remayn to their posterite of his worthy deth on that sorte so that all his successours might take ensample by hym to beware how they toke away such priuileges and libertees from the clergi Tharchebishops spies made reporte vnto hym of theyr intente that went out Then sent the archebyshope somme of his frendes to them that were without for to counsell them to conceaue a good opinion of their bishop and to wyl them quietly to retourne agayn into the counsell They were contented and retourned Than the archebyshop made promise that he would do the best he coulde to change the byshop of Romes mynde wyllyng them in the meane season to returne to their cures The next yere folowyng the byshop of Magunce at the cōmandement of the byshop named Curiensis whō the bishop of Rome had sent in ambassage vnto hym bothe with his letters and cōmandement called a counsayle at Magunce In this counsayle he commaunded the clergie vnder the peyne of cursyng that they wolde immediatly in that present Synode either vtterly forsake their wyues or els their ministery for euer The Clergie pleadid theyr owne cause boldely and whan they perceyued that their answere coulde not be herde but that they should be compelled by the tyrannie of the byshop of Rome to obeye there was a sodayn tumulte wherein the ruffelynge was so violente and with suche a force that bothe the byshop of Romes ambassadour and the archebyshope were putte in ieopardie of their lyues The counsayl brake vp The archebyshop perceyuynge and fearynge the daunger of the matter woulde medle no more with the reasonyng therin but committed all togither to the byshop of Rome therein to doo what he shoulde thynke good But he would here neither Scripture neyther reason neyther any auncient wryter sence the apostles tyme. His eares were stopped agaynste all reasons whyche were contrarye to his opinyon he heaped vp his thunderboltes of cursynges and excommunications vpon all theym that woulde not obeye this sayenge of his we wyll charge and straytely commaunde you He wente foorthe on lyke hym selfe withoute all feare of God withoute all reuerence to the holly Scriptures as a horne woode beaste for the mayntenaunce of his dyuelyshe Decree pretendyng alwaies a zeale to chastitee that he myght the safelyer lyue without suspicion in his accustomed lecherous life whereof the histories doth plentuously intreate and thus by violence and tyrannie he compassed his purpose The lyke practyse to this that was vsed in Italye Fraunce and Germanye hath been vsed also in Englande by the bysshops at sundrye tymes but namely in kynge Edgars dayes thorough the suggestion of the bysshoppes Dunston Ethelwald and Oswalde thre monkes by whose procurement to Iohn the .xiii. of that name bishop of Rome The pristes who were named secular canons were banyshed out of their colleges of Wynchester and Worcetter and sundry other places of the realme bycause they hadde wyues and monkes were placed in theyr roumes The chiefe cause that was layde to theyr charge wherfore to put them oute of their lyuynges was that they were maried But why I pray you were the monkes nowe of late dayes agayne displaced If Matrimonie myght be called a faulte as God forbydde that any christen tongue shoulde abuse it selfe in so speakynge yet had it been but one fault Nowe for that one faulte as they call it what a numbre of fautes I praye you were there founde in the abbaies at the kynges maiesties visitation Dyd nor the confessions of theim selues in man●r without examination wytnes those abbays to be the store houses of al vicious lyfe and abhomination Was not there couched togither in one dunghyll superstition ydolatrie pryde malice ydelnesse ignorance abhorryng of maryage and yet a satisfyeng of their stynkynge lustes of theyr bodyes other ways and vnder the pretence of obedyence to theyr Abbotte or pryoure dysobedyence to God and theyr prynce c. These were the holly ones whome Dunstone placed in steede of the Preestes whyche lyued in Godlye marryage These were the chaste and vertuous lyuers agaynste whose lyfe it was not lawfulle to speake But yee maye see by theyr ouerthrowe how well God was pleased with theyr woorkes Ye may see how woorthily God hath caste downe theyr begun buylded Babylon and hathe scattred those blyndlynges to their vtter confusion and his moste heauenly glory Thei entred theyr houses as though God hadde geuen theim possession but thankes bee geuen to God who hath sent Christ with his whyppe challengynge theym for papystes and lyars and declarynge to all the whole worlde that they haue made his howse a Sodomyticall denne of beastelye blynde wretches and steale swat theeues The selfe same thynge was also practysed by Anselme archebyshoppe of Caunterburye in Henrye the fyrste his dayes the seconde yeare of his Reygne in a Counsaylie holden at London where he forbadde the preestes of Englande to haue wyues It was at that tyme a straunge mattier vnto theym Libro 7. For as Huntingdon●nlis dooeth wryte they were neuer forbydden vntyll that day And for a confyrmacion of Anselmes facte there was sente into Englande frome the Byshope of Rome one Ioannes Cremenses a Cardynalle who helde a Counsaylle at London where he alledged many reasones for the restraynte and prohybytyon of Preestes marriages and amongest other allegacions he sayde that it was an exceadynge great abhominacion for a preest to aryse frome a whores side for so he called preestes lawfull wyues and immediatly to goe make gods body Yet it came to passe that although he hadde the same day sayde masse which he called the makynge of Gods body he was taken with a whore the same nyght From whence came this felow I pray you came he not frome Rome was he not a Cardinal was he not sent frome the capitayne generall of Antichristes kyngdome the bysshoppe of Rome him selfe What neede we then to doubt from whence this lawe of wyuelesse lyfe came fyrst and who were the stablishers therof Some cry the Church the Church was not this Cardinall trowe you a meete membre of the Churche to make a lawe for the rulynge of the Churche Thus hathe the deuyll vnder the name of preeste byshop Cardinall Pope and Churche deceaued all the worlde Surely I am perswaded that it was doone by the hyghe prouidence of God that this Cardinall shoulde be so taken in suche a trappe at that tyme especially bicause he would haue it notified to all the whole worlde that the wyuelesse lyfe of preestes which Antichrist studied to bryng to passe was altogither the deuils doctrine and contrarye to the mynde of the holy ghoste Ye maye se that this Church of Rome is the well spring of all the poyson that hath infected thuniuersal church of Christēdome All the Greke Churche hath ben from the Apostles tyme to this day cleare from this heresy in that they neuer alowed