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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

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