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A19677
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Inuicta veritas. An answere, that by no maner of lawe, it maye be lawfull for the moste noble kinge of englande, kinge Henry the ayght to be diuorsed fro[m] the quenes grate, his lawful and very wyfe
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Abell, Thomas, d. 1540.
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1532
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STC 61; ESTC S110723
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the church say contrary Nowe here ye may se what thinge these persones wolde haue done / and after what maner NOw for to come to an ende / these deceyuers say in the preface of their boke that the vniuersites wil put for the reasons of more waight shortly to al the worlde than these persons haue shewid in theyr boke sewerly so had thuniuersities nede to do For theis persons as ye haue sene haue brought noone but suche as be abhominable / shamful false / but the vniuersites aft r due ordyr aÌ„d reason / shulde a put for the first theyr reasons than their determinacions / that specially in determininge a mater or a pointe of our faith / I suppose so they wolde haue done / yf thei had determined the trowth / but for as myche as they haue determined that thinge that is very false / to be trew therfore thei put forth no reasons with their determinacions nor thei can none fynde to put forth / why they haue thus determined wherfor I breuely conclude / that the vniuersities haue determined falsly in this case that I haue spoken of / that this proposicion is false / that yt ys against the law of God against the law of nature for a man to mary his brothers wife a widow left c ¶ Now ye haue harde parte of theis persons blasphemy / parte of their errors / parte of their shamful lies / falsnes / beside al this ye may perceyue how these vngracious persons haue geuen great occasion to destroy kyndenes amite among cristen princes / the thei sowe for loue / hatered discorde / also ye may perceyue what great myscheif these persons with their labour / counsell / opinion / boke haue begun â—ye how mych more myscheyf they wold do / yf thei might bringe their maliciouse purpose to effecte ye may lykwise ê‘ceyue in what confusion with their false opinion thei wold bring princes concerning their mariages And finally what a sisme a diuision with their opinion thei haue stered vp in cristendom / for by their opinion / thei affirme that al cristes church haith thus many yeres erred in the faith in dispensing in the firste second degre of affinite consanguinite / al this foloweth of these vngracious persons false opinion / with mych more than I reherse / wherfor let no maÌ„ iuge that in my answer I rebuke them / with yre and passion but rath r I had cause to reproue them sharpelyer for the thei haue so hiely offendid almighty god ye aÌ„d they cause many so to do / wherfor theis euil persons ar wel worthy rebuke reproue o r sauio r crist vehemently rebuked the false scribes phariseis and false teachers / bicause thei offendid god taught other so to do / also Iohn bap reproued sharply rebuked false prophetes teachers / so did Pol Iohn in theyr pistils / Hierom / Ambros / austen many oth r holy fathers for nothing offendeth God more than teachers of false doctrine / nor ther is non so incurable a pestilence / nor so hurtful to mans sowle / as is false doctrine / yf it be accept beleued / wherfor ye may perceyue that I had a iuste cause to rebuke reproue these vngracious persons that haue set forth this boke that I answer to For they teche false doctrine wold haue yt to be accepte beleued thoughe I haue not so substancially profoundly answered here in euery pointe / as other better lernyd men parauentur shal do heraft r yet for all that my conscience wold not suffer me to hold my peace / but compellid me to offer with the poor widow a farthing of my lerninge to the honour of almighty God Wherfor I will mekely beseke ye to accepte this my answere / my zele / and will / in good wurth as I trust he doith / for whose sake aÌ„d cause I toke vpon me to make this answer / which is owr sauiour crist to whome be gyuen all honour and laude AMEN The lefe / pagyn / lyne the fautes thameÌ„demeÌ„ts B. i. Pagi i. Lin. i. almighty almighty god H. i. Pag. i. Lin. viij ys it it ys N. i. Pag. ij Lin. viij other oth N. iij. Pag. i. Lin. xv hath no pow r / hath power ¶ Imprinted at Luneberge the yere of ower Lorde God M.D.XXXII in Maye