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A12487	The seconde parte of the booke called a Bucklar of the Catholyke fayeth conteyninge seuen chapiters / made by Rychard Smyth doctoure of diuinitie of Oxforde, & reader of the same there.	Smith, Richard, 1500-1563.	1555 (1555)	STC 22817.5; ESTC S989	46,355	182

GOD require here the accomplishement and perfourmaunce of all godlye vowes made to hym Salomon setteth furth the same doctrine Eccle. v. sayinge Si quid vouisti Deo ne moreris reddere displicet enim 〈◊〉 stulta et in●idelis promi●sio sed quod●unque voueris redde ce I● thou haste vowed anye thynge A vow of ●onectie ought to be kept all others lawfullye made to God tarye not to render it For a folyshe and an vnfaythfull promysse displeaseth hym but what thynge so euer thou haste or shalt vowe perfourme it Who seeth not here euidentlye excepte he be blinded with carnall affection that the holy gost forbiddeth here the breaking of all leafull vowes and godlye promisses both of chastitie and volūtarie pouerte What meane then our vowe breakers when they can not abide him that teacheth them their dueties to god for their saluation Ought they to be angrie with him that telleth them the truth Why remēbre not they these Christes wordes Ma●th xvi Ma● viii What shall it profitte a man thoughe he shoulde winne all the whole worlde if he loose hys owne soule But let them heare the scripture agayne for a further and a more sufficient proffe of thys mattier Quum D●ut xxiii uotum uoueris domino deo ●uo non tardabis reddere quia require● illud dominus deustuus si moratus fueris reputabitur tib●in pe● catum Si nolueris polliceri absq peccato eris Quod autem egressū est de labijs tuis obseruabis facies Mathe this ye vo●●ries and repente the breache of your vowes in time sicut promisisti domino deo tuo propria voluntate ore tuo locutus es When thou haste vowed a vowe vnto thy Lorde God thou shalt not be slacke to paye it because thy lorde God wyll require it of thee and if thou shalt be slowe or slacke to perfourme thy vowe thou shalt sinne If thou wilt not make a vowe thou shalte be withoute synne concerninge this pointe But thou shalte kepe a●d doe that thing whiche is ones gone out of thy lyppes as tho● haste promised to thy lorde God and haste spoken with thyne owne free wyll and mouthe Oh how manifeste is thys texte againste the breakers of their vowes of chastitee voluntarie pouerte obedience and all other that are Reade this good godlie as these thre are Why remembre they not that Christ would not suffre a man which he had called to be a preachour of his worde to burie his Matth. viii Theoph. Luc. ix owne father declarynge therby that euerye man shoulde serue God in hys owne vocation and not leaue it or do any thinge repungnaunt to the same Doeth not Christ exhort vs to remēbre Luc. xvii Gen. xix Lothes wyfe that we looke not backewarde from our vocatiō and callinge Sayed not Christ also to one that sayed I wyll Luc ix followe the o Lorde but let me first take my leaue of them that are at home in my house No man putteth hys hande to the plowe and loketh backe or behynde him is apt to the realme or kingdome of God And doth not thei loke behinde thē which forsake their profession kinde of lyfe wyllingly chosen to serue God in Saint Paule commaūdeth yea Christe speakinge in i. Cor. vii ii Cor. xiii him that euery man shoulde abyde in hys owne vocation Dothe they so that breake their vowes of chastitee pouertie Did not saint Peter by the puissaunce and power geuen to him of God stryke Ananias and Saphyra to death for breaking Act. v. Fulgentius epistola i. Cyprianus lib. i. ca. xxv aduersus Iudaos their promisse and vowe made to the holye ghoost whiche was in reseruiuge to themselfes a piece of the money gottē by sale of their fielde where they hadde promised to geue the whole vnto thapostles for their sustināce the pooers as then had done manye good men willynglye Act. iiii without any commaundement of God followinge therin onely Christes counsell Saint Basyl Matth. xix Lib. de institutione ad vitam perfectam proueth by thys place that men ought to kepe all their vowes of virginitie continēce chastite pouerte of abstinēce of fasting and semblable others Sainte Bede whiche was Lib. i. ca. xxiii hist anglorum our countreeman and liued aboue DCCC threscorre yeres passed witnesseth that sainte Gregorie the first Pope of that Anno. do 〈◊〉 name sente one sainte Austen with almost fourtie other learned good men into thys our coūtree Englande to conuerte it vnto the fayth of Christ agayne and that when the kinge Edilberthus and manye others hadde receaued the faieth of Christe the saied Austen was made byshop of Cantorburie and that then he wrote to the Pope Gregorie to be instructed of hym howe the Byshoppes and the cleargie shoulde lyue amongest the people or howe manye portions shoulde be made of the thynges whiche thorowe the Lib. 8. ca. xxvii histaecclese Anglorium faithful peoples oblatiōs came to the aulter and howe the byshop shoulde vse himselfe in the churche Vnto whiche demaundes the Pope sainte Gregorie made thys aunswere The accustomaūce of the apostles seate Howe byshops shuld despende their goodes at Rome is to teach byshoppes created or made that of euerye stipende which cōmeth to them foure partes or portions ought to be made one for the byshop and hys familie and to receaue straungers and to kepe hospitalitie with The seconde for the nourriture sustentation of the cleargie The thirde part should be geuen to the poore people The fourthe ought to be reserued and dispended vpon the repayringe of hys churches But for as muche as saieth he thye brotherhoode hathe ben instructed in the rules of solitarie lyuinge Religious men albeit they were byshoppes oughte to haue nothinge proper and of religion you maye not lyue seuerallye from youre clerkes ye must ordeyne thys conuersation thus leade your lyfe in England as the fathers did euen at the beginnynge of Christes churche amongest the whiche euerye thynge that they Act. 〈◊〉 iiii had was commen and they had nothinge propre Thys leasson gaue that holye father sainte Gregorie the Pope vnto that byshop whiche was afore a religious persone and to hys companions that were Monkes Whiche counsell beinge grounded Note this vpon the scriptures their vowe all religious men women oughte to followe vppon payne of damnation But I The olde doctours vppon vowes wyl recite some of the olde godlye fathers sayinges written of them against priestes pretensed mariages that they may see euidentlye howe they erre in the defense of theym and that they stande in daunger of euerlastynge damnation continuynge in that opinion S. Fulgentius writteth these Fulgentius epi. prima de debi to coniugali wordes Saintes Paule pronounceth that wydowes are in daunger of damnation because they haue a mynde to i. Tim v. marrye after they haue professed chastitye