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A91186	An exact chronological history and full display of popes intollerable usurpations upon the antient just rights, liberties, of the kings, kingdoms, clergy, nobility, commons of England and Ireland	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1666 (1666)	Wing P3962A; ESTC R232177	595,052	408

Wives and Children That the other Levitical Priests Levites and Church-officers under the Law were all married or permitted freely to marry without restraint being High-priests Priests Levites only by descent and succession in the self-same Tribe not by election and mere ordination God himself prescribing what Persons they should marry and what not their Wives Marriages Children no wayes disabling or hindering them from the execution of their Priestly Offices as the Scriptures abundantly evidence Yea the Prophets likewise had both Wives and children under the Law therefore all Bishops Priests Prophets Ministers under the Gospel by parity of reason may or ought to be married and to enjoy their Wives Children without any impediment to their Ministry There being no divine inhibition to the contrary as Clemens Alexandrinus Stromatum l. 3. 7. long since resolved 5ly That Christ himself under the Gospel with his Mother and Disciples honored Marriage not only with their presence at it but by Christs working his very first Miracle in turning water into Wine to adorn this Solemnity and manifest his glory thereat 6ly That Christ in the Gospel not only not repealed but approved ratified the use of Marriage according to its primitive institution at the creation which he rehearsed reducing the Jews unto it who had swarved therefrom adding this farther divine seal and codicil thereunto What God hath therefore joyned together let no man put asunder By which he justified its use lawfulness under the Gospel to be as universal extensive free from the least restriction in relation to Priests as it was at the Creation and before his incarnation and prohibits Priests divorses from their Wives by any human or Papal Roman Canons whatsoever 7ly That it is evident both by Scriptures and Fathers that the Apostle Peter himself James Philip the Evangelist all Christs Apostles except Saint John yea St. Paul himself were married and had Wives without any reprehension restraint from Christ or disability to exercise their Apostolical Episcopal or Ministerial functions Therefore all other Evangelists Bishops Elders Priests Deacons may lawfully and laudably marry without prejudice to their Spiritual functions as well as they as sundry godly Bishops Priests Deacons and several Popes too married and had Wives in the primitive Ages of the Church for many hundred years after Christ as they ever had and still have in the Greek Churches till yea after Hildebrands time when they were by force and absolute tyranny divorsed from them 8ly The Spirit of God resolves by Paul himself That Marriage is honourable to ALL whether Male or Female Popes Bishops Monks Priests Clergy-men of all sorts as well as others and the Bed undefiled Therefore to all Popes Bishops unmarried Priests Votaries unlesse they will deny themselves to be comprised under the universal word All and make themselves Beasts or Angels But Whoremongers and Adulterers as most unmarried Prelates Priests and Romish Votaries have been and still are God will judge 9ly God himself by the Truth inspired hand pen of Saint Paul gives this universal advise if not precept to every man and woman Let EVERYMAN therefore every Pope Bishop Priest Deacon as well as Layman have his own Wife and every Woman her own Husband rendring this unanswerable reason for it for it is better to marry then to burn better for every man for any man Therefore for Popes Bishops Priests Monks who burn as much if not more than any others 10ly That marriage especially of Christs Ministers under the Gospel most lively represents typifies to Christians the conjugal union love affection that is between our Lord Iesus Christ his Church and every true Believer the Church in Scripture being stiled Christ's Spouse the Lamb's wife to whom he is said to be married yea to be her Husband and to whose marriage all Christians are invited Therefore it can no ways unfit or disable Popes Bishops Priests Ministers who pretend they have nearest approaches to and union communion with Jesus Christ engrossing to themselves the Title of his Church Spouse to enjoy or execute their holy Functions in his Church as Popes decree and dictate 11ly That God himself by St. Paul the only pretended Patron Patern of Priests single unmarried lives hath in precise terms in two several Epistles to Timothy and Titus Diocesan Bishops of Ephesus and Creet as most Pontificians and Prelates assert prescribed Marriage as a necessary qualification amongst others for all Bishops Presbyters Deacons allowing them without the least inhibition or restraint to be the Husband of one Wife yea to have Wives and Children lawfully begotten on them in these positive words A Bishop then must be blameless the Husband of one Wife vigilant c. one that ruleth well his own House having his Children in subjection with all gravity Likewise must the Deacons be grave c. Let the Deacons be the Husbands of one Wife ruling their Children and their own Houses well Even so must their Wives to wit of Presbyters Bishops Deacons be grave no Slanderers sober faithfull in all things chast Keepers at home c. Which qualifications were purposely inserted into these Texts by Gods special providence to justifie the lawfulness of Bishops Priests and Deacons marriages wives and conjugal estate against all Papal subsequent Decrees Canons prohibiting them Which qualifications both Gratian and other Popish Canonists Writers concerning the Ordination qualification of Bishops Priests Deacons recite retain yet impudently endeavour to elude by these two irrational shifts diametrically repugnant to the words and sence of these unanswerable Texts The 1. evasion is That the Husband of one Wife is intended only of the time past of Bishops Priests Deacons before they are admitted in to these Orders not present or future time of such who are to be actually ordained Bishops Priests Deacons at the time of their Ordination or after admittance to these Orders To wit that no Person who hath had two Wives either together or successively or maried a Widow though both Wives be actually dead or divorced from him ought to be ordained a Bishop Priest or Deacon or admitted to claim or enjoy the benefit of Clergy in criminal cases but only single Persons or such who have formerly had but one Wife from which they must be separated either by death or divorce before they must be ordained their actual marriage and cleaving to one Wife disabling them by their Papal Constitutiors either to receive Orders or to retein or exercise these their Functions after their Ordinations I answer 1. That this Papal restriction of Paul's qualifications only to such as are to be ordained Bishops Priests Deacons before their Ordination without relating to those who are such is 1. Directly contrary to the letter of the Text which describes the qualifications of such who are actual Bishops Priests Deacons as well at and after the time of their ordinations as before

Apostles but not drawn forth by Peter or Christ against those who laid violent hands upon and crucified him How then this later sword can belong to Peter Popes or Prelates alone by divine right let Pontificians resolve the world when they are able 2ly That he asserts the King to be the Supreame Member in the body of Christ to whom St. Peters sword appertains not the Pope Bishops or Priests who have only that sheathed sword which Peter and the other Apostles did not then draw forth 3ly That so long as the Kings sword is drawn exercised in and for the Church or its Members the Spiritual sword of Excommunication ought not to be drawn or used 4ly That the Ecclesiastical Sword equally belongs to every Bishop Angel Priest of God as much as to St. Peter or the Pope who may lawfully draw it out when ever there is occasion without the Popes Commission License Permission 5ly You may hence observe how much this Text hath been perverted by Popes and their Advocates to maintain the Popes title to the Supreame Temporal and Spiritual swords of Authority Jurisdiction in over all Christian Kings Kingdoms which as I have formerly evidenced make nothing at all for these two Metaphorical Swords Jurisdictions or St. Peters or his pretended successors Title to them For if we believe St. Ambrose and others these two swords which the Apostles then had and Christ resolved to be enough were only the Old and New Testament which Saint Peter and the other Apostles were to draw forth open explain and preach to all Nations for their instruction the slaying of their sinnes errors corruptions pricking them at their hearts arming them against all the assaults of the Devil and for the edification conversion defence and salvation of their souls Which exposition of theirs is warranted by Luke 24. 25 26 27. Rom. 1. 1 2 16 17 c. 10. 6. to 21. c. 16. 25 26. Eph. 2. 17 to 22. c. 3. 5 to 12. Mat. 28. 19 20. Mark 16. 15 16. compared with Eph. 6. 17 19. Hebr. 4. 12 13. Rev. 1. 16. c. 2. 12 16. c. 19. 14 15 16 21. Ps 45. 3. Ps 149. 6. Isay 49. 2. Mat. 10. 34. Duo Gladii unus veteris alter novi Testamenti quibus adversus Diaboli armamur insidias dixit Satis est quia nihil deest ei quem utriusque Testamenti doctrina munierit Gladius Sermo Domini Servatoris ideo anceps quoniam duo contineat Testamenta is the general and genuine resolution of St. Ambrose Augustine Chrysostom Jerome Beda Cassiodor Bruno Lyra Hugo de Sancto Victore the Ordinary Glosse most Orthodox Interpreters Old and New on these Texts This is the only sword proceeding out of Christs mouth which he came to send into the world which himself brandished or made use of whilst on earth committed to his Apostles Ministers Peter or the Roman Pontiffs admitting them to be his genuine Successors after his death and resurrection not the Supream Spiritual or Temporal Coercive Sword of Jurisdiction in and over all Persons Churches Kingdoms causes whatsoever as Popes and Pontificians most blindly inferr from hence against the Letter true scope of this Text Exposition of the Fathers and their own learned Expositors 6ly These words But now he that hath no sword let him sell his garment and buy one c. And they said Lord Behold here are two swords And he said they are enough are thus interpreted by the Fathers St. Ambrose hath this Meditation on these words in St. Peters name O Domine cur emere nos jubes gladium qui ferrire me prohibes Cur habere praecipis cum vetas promi nisi fortè ut parata sit defensio non ultio necessaria videar potuisse vindicari sed noluisse Lex tamen referire me non vetat ideo fortasse Petro duos gladios offerenti sat est dicit quasi licuerit usque ad Evangelium ut sit in Lege aequitatis eruditio in Evangelio bonitatis perfectio Multis hoc iniquum videtur sed non iniquus Dominus qui cum se possit ulcisci maluit immolari St. Chrysostom hath the like Cum illi dixissent Duos se gladios habere Christus satis esse respondit Cur igitur habere permisit ut facilius crederent quod tradetur Propterea dixit eis emat gladium non ut percutiant animat sed ut proditionem per hoc declararet Propterea Petrus gladio usus comminatione quidem vehementi repraehenditur Which Beda Theophylact Hugo de Sancto Victore Lyra Erasmus Aretius Calvin Beza Marlorat Heinsius Walaeus and others on this Text recite yea second and Origen before them Tract 35. in Matth. gives the like interpretation thereof The summe scope of which words they resolve to be this 1. To give a further check to the Disciples ambitious spirit and contest for precedency or worldly grandure which he had reprehended immediately before by minding them of the persecutions and hardships they should suffer after his passion ascention and thereby advising them to provide against them 2ly To instruct them that in times of persecution they might lawfully buy a sword to defend their persons against private violence but not to resist the publike Authority of persecuting Princes or revenge themselves 3ly That the Disciples misapprehending Christs meaning imagining he commanded each of them personally to buy a sword to defend him from the band of men armed with swords staves that should apprehend and put him to death they in their simplicity thought two swords sufficient to effect it when as not twelve nor two hundred swords much lesse two would be sufficient for that purpose Whereupon he replied It is enough either by way of Ironie as some hold Dominus ironia dixit Quia duo gladii sunt omnino multi sunt sufficiunt nobis contra multitudinem quae venit super nos Or else rather by way of diversion to some other discourse as Theophylact thinks Haec enim opinor aenigmaticè propterea dicebat ut postea recordantes intelligentes utilitatē capiant quoniam tunc adeo insipientes erant ut dicunt Domine hic duo gladii at ipse quia vidit ipsos non intellexisse inquit Satis est tametsi nequaquam sufficerent si humano auxilio contra honicidas illos uti oportuisset neque omnium gladii sufficissent si autem hoc ●oluissent diviniore subsidio opus erat superstui fuissent duo Veruntamen Dominus noluit eos arguere utpote nihil intelligentes sed dixit satis est processit Sic igitur etiam nos quando cum quodam conversantes vidimus cum non intellexisse quid diximus dicimus Bene dimitte quamvis non sit bonum sed ne conturbaremus remittimus Facit hic Dominus quando videt discipulos non intelligere dictum transit eventum rerum explicare dictorum intelligentiam c. 4ly That Christ by this