me hath not been ⸫ voide but I haue labored more aboundantly then all they yet not I but the grace of God with me The note In him Gods grace is not voide that worketh by his freewill according to the motion and direction of the same grace The answer As you haue drawen fréewill from philosophie so you plant grace in the roome of that which the philosophers called right reason and you giue vnto it no more then they did to right reason that is to mooue and direct the will But Paule on the contrary side so attributeth all to grace that he leaueth nothing to himselfe I haue labored saith he yet not I but the grace of God with me that is to saie which is with me 1. Cor. 15. 14. The text And if Christ be not risen againe then vaine is our preaching vaine also is your faith and we are found also ⸫ false witnesses of God c. The note So we may say if the catholike faith in all points be not true then our first apostles were false witnesses then hath our countrie beleeued in vaine all this while are all our forefathers dead in their sins perished which presupposing Christ to be God were the greatest absurditie in the worlde The answer And whie did you not say if the faith which the church of Rome at this day professeth be not in al points true for that we know you meane by the Catholike faith but you would haue your words true howsoeuer your meaning was But we denie your Romish faith to be the catholike faith By our first Apostles also you meane neither Peter nor Paul nor anie of Christes Apostles but Augustine the monke pope Gregories apostle but if his doctrine were Catholike neither yours nor ours is in all points Catholike For our forefathers which you speake of you meane those which liued of late yeeres for those of elder time knew not your faith they could not tell that the Pope could not erre they thought him subiect to the whole church they knew nothing of transubstantiation of concomitance and of a number of such toies as you of late haue coined And therefore let men vnderstand that the Catholike faith is that which Paul and Peter and the other Apostles of Christ left vnto vs taught in the scriptures and that which the first church of Christ beléeued and embraced at their hands and which the church of Rome at this day persecuteth and then your note may stand vntouched 1. Cor. 15. 42. The text For ⸫ starre differeth from starre in glorie so also the resurrection of the dead The note The glorie of the bodies of saints shall not be all alike but different in heauen according to mens merits The answer The Apostle putteth no difference here betwéene the glorified bodies of the saints but betwéene the state of our bodies afore the resurrection and after the resurrection betwixt which two states of the selfe same bodies there shalbe as great difference as betwixt the glorie of the sunne the glorie of anie other starre therefore you do but according to your accustomed order wrest this text to bring men to put confidence in their owne merits 1. Cor. 15. 44. The text It is sowen a naturall bodie it shall rise a spirituall bodie The note As to become spirituall doeth not take away the substance of the bodie glorified no more when Christes bodie is said to be in spiritual sort in the sacrament doth it import the absence of his true bodie substance The answer Hungrie dogges eate durtie puddings this stuffe must serue where better can not be had Our bodies though spiritual and configured as you call it to the bodie of his glorie yet are true bodies not in manie places at once whereof it followeth that Christes bodie being a true glorified bodie is not in manie places at once for that can not stand with the trueth of his bodie 1. Cor. 15. 5◠The text This I say brethren that flesh and blood can not possesse the kingdome of God neither shall corruption possesse incorruption The note Flesh and blood signifie not here the substance of those things but the corrupt qualitie incident to them in this life by the fall of Adam The answer If you should light on men as froward and contentious as your selues they might with as great reason contend with you for the litterall sense of flesh and blood as you do for the litterall sense of This is my bodie which spéech being of a Sacrament you will by no means admit to be of the same nature and to haue like interpretation as all other spéeches of Sacraments haue 1. Cor. 16. 2. The text In ⸫ the first of the Sabaoth let euerie one of you put a part with him selfe laying vp what shall well like him that not when I come collections be made The note That is Sunday Hierome q. 4. Hedibiae So quickelie did the Christians keepe Sunday holie day and assembled to diuine seruice on the same The answer For Sunday that it was appointed by the Apostles to bée kept for the Saboath that it was so solemnized in their times it is manifest you needed not Saint Hieroms authoritie for it sauing that you loue to vse the fathers where you least need them 1. Cor. 16 8. The text But I will tarie at Ephesus till Pentecost The note The heretikes and other new fangled striue amongst themselues whether Pentecost signifie here the terme of fiftie daies or els the Iewes holie day so called But it commeth not to their minds that it is most like to be the feast of Whit suntide kept and instituted euen then by the Apostles as appeareth by the fathers See Augustine epist 119. cap. 15. and 16. Ambrose in cap. 17. Lucae The answer In Augustine I find certaine mysteries in the number of fifty noted as well out of the new testament as out of the old and that the feast of Pentecost was in his time kept of Christians but what was meant by it in this place or whether the Apostles did institute that feast to be kept of Christians or not I find nothing there In Ambrose I find that the beginning of the eighth wéeke after Easter maketh the Pentecost and that Paul in this place promised to tarrie till that time and that they kept all the fiftie daies as Easter but whether by the apostles tradition or no that is left vncertain So we sée not by your fathers that the apostles instituted the feast of Whitsuntide But we sée that you loue to trouble your selues and others with trifles 1. Cor. 16. 2◠The text If any man loue not our Lord Iesus Christ be he Anathema ⸫ Maran-atha The note That is our Lord is come Hierom ep 173. Therefore Anathema to all that loue him not or beleeue not Theophilact vpon this place The answer In matter not in controuersie betwixt vs you make vnnecessarie shew of reading If you did either in loue or in faith
and Sinods or publike praiers is of more force than of any particular man The answer It is true that the vnitie and agréement of Gods Saints ioyned in praier and the consent of many gouernors of the Church in executing discipline is of more force than if the same be done of a very few And yet your proud prelate of Rome will haue his doings being but one stand and be of force against all consent whatsoeuer Matth. 19. 11. The text Not all ⸫ take this word but they to whom it is giuen The note 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 capiunt The answer This most plainly sheweth that the vertue of continencie is not in euery mans will but a rare gift of God and that therefore they not onely deale rashly but also directly against Gods will and pleasure that vowe perpetuall single life And I doo not doubte but that your other annotations shall shortly be answered Matth. 19. 17. The text But ⸫ if thou wilt enter into life keepe the commandements The note I see not saith Saint Augustine why Christ should say if thou wilt haue life euerlasting keepe the commandements if without obseruing of them by onely faith one might be saued Augustine de fide operi cap. 1â— The answer Augustine in that place speaketh not against those that ascribe iustification to a true and a liuely faith but against the papistical opinion of them which vnderstood by them that build vpon Christ hay and stubble such Christians as liue wickedly whom they affirmed that they should passe through purgatorie fier and so be partakers of saluation through the merite of their foundation Against these Augustine replieth that he séeth not to what purpose Christ should exact the kéeping of the commandements if such a faith that is a bare profession of Christianitie might saue What is this against that faith which worketh obedience in beléeuers as it is written By faith Abraham obeyed God who then séeth not your vanitie in applying against vs that which was spoken against the patrones of purgatorie Matt. 19. 24. The text And againe I say to you it is easier for a camel to passe thorow the eie of a needle ⸫ than for a rich man to enter into the kingdome of heauen The note Saint Marke expoundeth it thus rich men trusting in their riches cap. 10. verse 24. The answer This as farre as I now remember is the first note saue one giuen vs by conference of places of Scripture And if this kind of gathering were more in vse with you we should haue a great many fewer controuersies betwixt vs. Matt. 19 29. The text And euery one that hath left house or brethren or sisters or father or mother or ⸫ wife or children or lands for my names sake shall receiue an hundred folde and shall possesse life euerlasting The note Hereof is gathered that the Apostles amongst other things left their wiues also to followe Christ. Hierom. lib. 1. aduer Iouinianum The Answer The Apostles were neuer taught by Christ to leaue those dueties vnperfourmed which God had imposed vpon men therfore not their dueties towardes their wiues Further to leaue these things was not absolutelie to leaue either possession or vse of them but onelie so to bridle them selues as that the hauing of these things were no withdrawing of them from cleauing to Christ folowing their calling For Matthew had stil his house in which he feasted Christ. Lazarus and his sisters dwelt in their owne at Bethania Ioseph was ritch and yet a disciple and if Peters wiues mother were cared for and healed of her feuer it is not likelie that her daughter was cast off Further what say you to the canons which you say are the Apostles which forbid priestes to leaue their wiues vnder pretence of religion But you tell vs that Hierome gathereth it what then must we therefore of necessitie beléeue it He telleth vs in the same booke that the end of marriage is death and the ende of single life is life and I am sure you therein beléeue him not But this is your practise such absurd collections as you are ashamed to set downe as your owne gathering ye gladlie shroud vnder the name of some Father to abuse your followers with Matth. 20. 11. The text And receiuing it they ⸫ murmured against the good man of the house saying The note The Iewes are noted for enuying the vocation of the Gentiles and their rewarde equall with them selues The answer It is true that the Iewes enuied the calling of the Gentiles as the papistes at this day can not abide that reformed Christians take the name of Catholike christians and Church of God but that by this murmuring that enuying of equalitie of reward is meant is your bare surmise which you can not proue For the purpose of the parable is nothing els but to shew that it is frée for God to reward whom he will though they deserue it not Matth. 20. 25. The text And Iesus called them vnto him and said you knowe that the princes of the Gentiles ouer rule them and they that are the greater exercise power against them The note Superioritie is not here forbidden amongest Christians neither ecclesiasticall nor temporall but heathenish tirannie is forbidden and humilitie commended The answer Christ here distinguisheth the regiment of his church from ciuill gouernment and denieth that any of the Apostles shalbe aduaunced ouer his fellow apostles in dignitie as kings ouer their subiectes which â—latlie striketh downe your supposed primacie of Peter As for heathenish tirannie the popes of Rome haue excéeded all that euer went before them for they haue not onelie put their Cardinals into sackes and throwne them into the sea but also they haue not suffered one another to rest in their graues Matth. 21. 12. The text And Iesus entred into the temple of God and cast out all that sold and bought in the temple The note How much the abuse of the churches by marchandizing walking or other prophane occupying of them displeaseth God here we may see The answer Prophane occupying of the church displeaseth God but héere is a further thing meant namelie buying and selling vnder pretence of religion and seruice of God as héere the selling of such things as perteined to the seruice of the temple and with you the selling of masses diriges trentals and pardons such like stuffe Where couetousnesse of sacrificing priests is the expresse cause of prophaning the temple which you sâ—ilie passe ouer bicause it toucheth your selues very nighlie Matth. 21. 19. The text And seeing a certaine ⸫ figge tree by the way side he came to it and found nothing oâ— it but leaues onelie The note The Iewes hauing the word of the lawe and not the deedes were the figge tree full of leaues and voide of fruit Aug. de verb. dom serm 44. The answer In the fig trée he did set out what end and issue remaineth for hypocrites which make a
to shift of the reasons that the Arrians gathered out of this place against the diuinitie of Christ. Mark 14. 7. The text For the poore you haue alwaies with you and when you wil you may do them good But ⸫ me you haue not alwaies The note We haue not Christ here needing our almes as when he conuersed vpon the earth The answer And why haue we héere no doctors Bicause this shift to expound this text so that it should not make against the bodilie presence of Christ in the Sacrament is a late deuise It is true that if he be not here in bodie then it is not possible for him to néede reléefe But let vs see how your faith in this point agréeth with the ancient Christian Catholike faith Augustine willeth Dardanus to hold this Christian confession That Christ rose from the dead ascended into heauen sitteth at the right hande of the Father shall come from none other place but from thence to iudge the quicke and the dead and that he shall so come as the angels voice testified euen as he was séene go into heauen that is in the same forme and substance of flesh to the which he truly gaue immortalitie and tooke not away nature According to this forme he is not to be thought diffused euery where Fulgentius affirmeth that Christ according to the humane nature is comprehended in a place absent from heauen when he was vpon the earth and forsaking the earth when he ascended into heauen Uigilius writing against the heretike Eutiches saith that Christ is with vs and not with vs. For those whom he left and from whom he departed in his humanitie he did not leaue nor forsake in his diuinitie By forme of a seruant which he took from vs into heauen he is absent from c. And in another place when he hath prooued him to be euerie where according to his diuinitie and but in one place at once according to his humanitie he concludeth thus This is the faith and confession Catholike which the Apostles deliuered Martyres did confirme and the faithfull hitherto haue held And concerning these very words Me you shal not haue alwaies Augustine expoundeth them simplie to be ment of his bodily absence from the earth Now let our papists tell vs how their faith can be Christian and Catholike being directly against that which in these fathers daies was Christian and Catholike Mark 14. 23. The text And taking the chalice giuing thanks he gaue to them and they ⸫ all dranke of it The note All dranke to wit all the twelue for more were not present Wherebie it is euident that the words in Saint Matthew 26 27 Drinke ye al of this were spoken to all the apostles onely which here are said that they all did drinke And so it is no generall commandement to all men The answer And why haue we not here one doctor to say for you that Drinke yée all is not so general a commandement as Take and eate Can that be a catholike exposition which is contrarie to all expositions of catholike expositors for many hundred yéeres after Christ Take and eate stretcheth to laie men as the practise of your church doth shew And Drinke yée all that must be restreined to priests bicause no more but y e Apostles were present And if that cause be of force why shall it not restraine the other commandement also Take and eate to priests onely But the holy Ghost foreséeing what popish corruptions the diuell would bring into the Church did afore hand the more fully to preuent the diuels fraud héerein direct the pens of the Euangelists in the giuing of the cup to expresse the vniuersall signe all where in deliuerie of the bread he is content with an indefinite spéech take and eate Heere all antiquitie is vtterly against poperie Their doctrine of concomitance was not in the fathers daies hatched neither had they wit ynough to foresée the danger of spilling and hanging in lay mens beards and such other déepe considerations as the pope picked out long after out of his night cap. Mark 14. 25. The text Amen I saie to you that now I will not drinke of the fruits ⸫ of the vine vntill that daie when I shall drinke it new in the kingdome of God The note See annotations vpon Matthew chap. 26. vers 29. The answer Your annotations are not woorth the looking on yet such as they are they shall receiue answer by themselues Mark 14. 64. The text Who all ⸫ condemned him to be guiltie of death The note Here we may see that they were worthily reprobated and forsaken according to our sauiours prediction by the parable Mark. 12. The kingdome of God shall be taken from you c. The answer Their successors in impietie blasphemie and crueltie Annas and Caiphas of Rome and their adherents cannot be in better estate for they with no lesse consent and vnitie haue condemned Christ in his members and his truth for heresie and blasphemie Mark 14. 66. The text And when Peter was in the courte beneath there commeth one of the ⸫ woman seruants of the high priest The note He feareth not afterward Rome the ladie of the worlde that in the house of Caiphas was afraid of the high priests wench Leo in natiuitate Petri Pauli sermone 1. The answer In this weake fearefulnes of Peter we may sée our owne frailtie and in the change that God after made in him when he had indued him and others with vertue from aboue the power by which God can and doeth worke in weake and fraile vessels Rome was the ladie of the worlde therefore not the head of the church a place fearfull to the godlie or els Peters valure in not fearing of it had not béene commendable Marke 1◠29. The text And they that passed by blasphemed him wagging their heades and saying Vah he that destroyeth the temple and in three dayes buildeth it ⸫ saue thy selfe comming downe from the crosse The note So say heretikes of the blessed Sacrament if it be Christ let him saue him selfe from all iniuries The answer We whome it pleaseth you to call heretikes learne not from the scornefull Iewes but from good Ioash the father of Gedeon that your bread is not God bicause it can not plead for it selfe nor reuenge it selfe But you haue a god and a religion alike both of your owne creation Marke 15. 34. The text My God my God why hast thou ⸫ forsaken me The note See Matth. cap. 27. 46. the blasphemous exposition of Caluine and his followers and take heede thereof The answer Sée the exposition reape comfort thereof and learne with hart and minde to detest and abhorre the impudent and shamelesse pennes of lying papistes Marke 16. 7. The text But go tell his disciples ⸫ Peter that he goeth before you into Galilee The note Peter is named in speciall as often els where for prerogatiue The answer A poore prerogatiue it
goodlie thing This doth the mount Carmel of Helias teach Iohns desert and that mount vnto which Iesus often retired and was quietly alone with himselfe Ser. 26. de amore pauperum The answer Gregorie Nazian neuer imagined or thought of any such superstitious persons as your eremites be neither for such solitarines as they vse can any thing be soundly brought from these examples Luke 22. 20. The text ⸫ This is the chalice the new testament in my blood which shall be shed for you The note The Greeke is heere so plaine that there was very blood in the chaliceshed for vs that Beza saith it is a corruption in the Greeke See the annotations vpon this place The answere The Gréeke is so plaine that no papists of you can by any necessarie consequence prooue out of this place that very blood is in the cup. The defence of Master Beza and a more full answer to your cauill about this place I refer to the learned answer of that reuerend man master Doctor Fulke against Martinius Luke 22. 30. The text And I dispose to you as my father disposed to me a kingdome that you may eat and drinke vpon my table in my kingdome and may sit ⸫ vpon thrones iudging the twelue tribes of Israel The note Straight after the former louing checke and admonition he promiseth to them all that haue been partakers with him of his miseries in this life greater preheminence in heauen than any potentate can haue in this world and therefore that they need not be carefull of dignitie or supremacie The answer If Christ had appointed Peter in supreme authoritie ouer the rest how happened that the Apostles were stil ignorant of it and contended stil amongst themselues for superiority so that Christ is faine still to giue them new checks and new admonitions for that matter Further touching the louing promise of Christ wherewith he comforted them they had béen much to blame if they would haue doubted of it as you teach other Christians to doubt of his promises Luke 23. 45. The text And the ⸫ sunne was darkened and the veile of the temple was rent in the middes The note This eclipse was seene and woondered at as a thing aboue nature of Dionisius Areopagita at Thebes when he was yet a pagan Dionis ep ad Policarp epist ad Apollophanem The answer The iudgement of men concerning this eclipse is diuers som thinke that it was vniuersall others bicause the stories which do diligently exactly set out the notable things of those times do not mention it thinke that therfore it was but in Iewrie onely And the authoritie of Dionysius whom men know to be a counterfet doth nothing mooue them to the contrarie But whether it were vniuersall or particular all consent that at that time it must néedes be a worke aboue nature and therefore woonderfull and miraculous And if you had respected the benefit of your reader rather than the maintenance of the vaineglorious opinion of your much reading you in the margent in stéed of citing a bastard autoritie would haue giuen vs some good lesson or obseruation what that so woonderfull worke of God at that time might betoken Luke 24. 1. The text And in the ⸫ first of the sabaoth very early they came to the monument carieng the spices which they had prepared The note That is first after the sabaoth which is saith saint Hierom q. 4. ad Hedibiam dies Dominica our Lords day wherin he arose For the weeke is diuided into the sabaoth and the 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. of the sabaoth And the Apostle 1. Cor. 16. 2. commanded a collection of money to be made on the first of the sabaoth Whereby we learne both the keeping of Sunday and the churches count of daies by the 2. 3. 4. of the sabaoth to be Apostolicall which saint Siluester afterward named 2. 3. 4. feriam c. Breuiar Roman Decemb. 31. The answer That our Lords day in common spéech called sunday is meant by the first of the sabaoth and that the obseruation of that in the churches of Christians was instituted by the Apostles is cléere their reckoning of the other daies they left frée to euery countrie their maner If your church had had nothing apostolicall left in it your defection had béene without all colour plaine and grosse But now these and such like silly remnants as they serue somewhat to shadow and to hide you so are they horribly poisoned with a multitude of trash of your owne deuising and bringing in Luke 24. 46. The text And he said vnto them that so it is written and it behooued Christ to suffer and to rise againe from the dead the third day and penance to be preached in his name and remission of sinnes vnto all nations beginning from Hierusalem The note As he shalbe Anathema saith Saint Augustine which preacheth that Christ neither suffered nor rose againe bicause we learne by the Gospel that it behooued Christ to suffer and to rise againe the third day so he shall also be anathema whosoeuer preacheth the church to be else where then in the communion of all nations bicause by the selfe same Gospel we learne in the words next following and penance to be preached in his name and remission of sins through out all nations Aug. epist. 48. The answer How happened it that in so many conflicts as Augustine hath with the Donatists that he neuer doeth pronounce Anathema against them for appealing from the sentence of the Bishop of Rome And why doth he neuer vrge against them that the bishop of Rome could not in giuing sentence and iudgement erre For if he had beléeued the principles of popish diuinitie these had béene very materiall points against the Donatists But in this anathema here by you rehearsed he doth as directlie strike the Romanists as the Donatists For Rome hath rent hir selfe from the churches of the East parts also from as many of the West as do not consent to her abominations and fornications so that whosoeuer at this day do place Gods church there doeth forsake the communion of the church of all nations which was is and shall be And if Augustine were aliue againe now he would impugne the church of Rome with the same reasons that he vsed against the Donatists then IOHN Iohn 1. 15. The text This was he of whom I spake He that shall come after me ⸫ is made before me because he was before me The note He is preferred and made of more dignitie and excellencie then I bicause he was before me and all things eternall God The answer I know that diuers and sundrie good men and excellent interpreters of the scriptures do explane this as you doo yet notwithstāding I rather assent to them which do not refer it to the time or eternitie of Christes being but to the dignitie and excellencie of his person Iohn 1. 22. The text Art thou ⸫ the prophet and he answered no. The note Belike
Augustine found in this Iland better Christians then he made anie whom bicause they could not like that gallie mawfrie which he brought from Rome he caused to be most cruellie murdered in great numbers And yet this is to be noted also that a great number of our popish corruptions in his time were neither bred nor borne as for example the vniuersalitie of the popes power and transubstantiation 1. Cor. 5. 2. The text And you are puffed vp and ⸫ haue not mourned rather that he might be taken away from among you that hath done this deede The note Christian men should be sorowfull to see greeuous offences borne withall and ought zealouslie to seeke the offenders punishment by excommunication The answer This note agréeth not with the open practise of your church of Rome wherein not onlie Curtisans are maintained for money but also the sinne of Sodom both fréelie practised and also praised and commended 1. Cor. 5. 9. The text I wrote to you in ⸫ an Epistle not to keepe companie with fornicators The note Either this epistle in the words before or some other The answer I take it to be some other for that I sée no reason to lead me to thinke it to be this 1. Cor. 5. 11. The text But now I wrote to you not to keepe companie if he that is named a brother be a fornicator or a couetous person or a ⸫ seruer of idols or a railer or a drunkard or an extortioner with such a one not so much as take meate The note A notorious wilfull corruption in the Bible 1562. translating in the verse before idolaters and here worshippers of images the Apostles word being one 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 idolater The answer A marueilous iudgement of God is vpon you that contrarie to the expresse commandement of God contrarie to the whole course of scriptures you maintaine that worshipping of images is not idolatrie Your quarrell to the translation is answered by Doctor Fulke against Martinius As for your selues you bow to the wood whereof part hath serued to warme men and part to dresse their meat denie it if you can 1. Cor. 6. 2. The text Or know you not that the ⸫ saints shall iudge of the world The note The faithfull iudge and giue sentence with God at the latter daie speciallie the Apostles and the perfect Christians that haue forsaken all for Christs sake The answer The promise of iudging the world is generall to all true christians and not restrained to perfect Christians But that is intollerable that you plant the perfection of Christians in them selues that is in their owne doing whereas our perfection is the doing and perfect obedience of our Lord Sauiour Iesus Christ. 1. Cor. 6. 10. The text Do not erre neither fornicators nor ⸫ seruers of idols nor adulterers nor the effoeminate nor the liers with mankinde nor theeues nor the couetous nor drunkards nor raâ—â—ers nor extortioners shall possesse the kingdome of God The note For this the English Bible 1562. falselie translateth worshippers of images The answer A foole must be alwaies plaieng with his bable your quarell is not woorth the answering so oft An idol in Gréeke is the same that we call image in English but you can not abide that an image should be called an image but you can abide to commit as grosse and foule idolatrie as euer there was anie in the world 1. Cor. 6. 18. The text Euerie sinne whatsoeuer a man doeth is without the bodie but he that doeth fornicate sinneth ⸫ against his owne bodie The note Fornication is not onely an enimie to the soule but wasteth weakeneth corrupteth and defileth the bodie more properly and directly than any other sinnes do The answer Your note is true and yet some of your side do prefer fornication before marriage in some persons and all your priests refuse the remedie that God himself hath ordained against fornication 1. Cor. 7. 5. The text Defraud not one another except perhaps by consent for a time ⸫ that you may giue your selfe to praier and returne againe togither least sathan tempt you for your incontinencie The note If the lay man can not pray vnlesse he abstaine from his wife the priest that alwaies must offer sacrifices and alwaies pray must therefore alwaies be free from matrimonie Hierom lib. 1. c. 19. cont Iouin The answer Will you admit all Ieroms reasons in that booke to be good I know you will not Amongst other this is a very loose one Remember I pray you your owne note vpon the first to the Romans He is said to pray continually that euery day at some certaine time praieth Therefore there is no such necessitie for anie man to abstaine continually from marriage bicause married men may very well haue time for both the duties 1. Cor. 7. 8. The text ⸫ But I say to the vnmarried and to widowes it is good for them if they so abide euen as I also The note Before he treated of the continencie of such as were married now he giueth lessons for the vnmarried also The answer But you refuse to learne both the one and the other For neither you will admit euery man to haue his owne wife neither yet will you leaue the profession of virginitie to be taken or left as euery man feéeleth in himselfe strength for that to be giuen to him or not to be giuen to him of God 1. Cor. 7. 23. The text You were bought with price be not made the ⸫ bond men of men The note You must not serue men so that you obey or please them more than God The answer The pope exacteth that seruice his extollers flatterers and clawbacks bestow it vpon him and generally all papists vnder that color and pretence withdraw euen their lawfull obedience from their soueraignes and lawfull princes 1. Cor. 7. 28. The text Art thou loose from a wife seeke not a wife But if thou take a wife ⸫ thou hast not sinned The note Virginitie counselled as the better marriage not forbidden bicause it is no sinne The answer Why haue you not thrust virginitie in amongst your sacraments sith you hold it absolutely better than matrimonie You speake very nicely of marriage being one of your sacrements Uirginitie counselled marriage not forbidden The reasons bicause virginitie is the better but marriage no sinne Is that the best reason you can giue for the not forbidding of marriage or can you affoord it no better commendation Is marriage a sacrament and no where counselled nor commanded Sure that were very strange The admirers of virginitie make marriage no better than sinne For the end of it is death saith Ierom in his first booke against Iouinian But to leaue your fansies of marriage and virginitie this I say that either of them is better than other as time place persons and other circumstances do serue for the choise of the one or the other Marriage is the holie ordinance of the almightie commanded to all