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lord_n	aaron_n	abraham_n	pray_v	24	3	5.5311	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11557	The defence of the mariage of preistes agenst Steuen Gardiner bisshop of Wynchester, Wylliam Repse bisshop of Norwiche, and agenst all the bisshops and preistes of that false popissh secte, with a confutacion of their vnaduysed vowes vnaduysedly dissined: whereby they haue so wykedly separated them whom God cowpled in lawfull mariage. Made by James Sawtry.	Joye, George, d. 1553.; Sawtry, James.	1541 (1541)	STC 21804; ESTC S104698	20,412	58

of the texte and conference of the places declare But here ye se playnely that Paule forbiddeth yonge persons to vowe before lx yeres and yet Wyn. will haue their vowes lawfull at xxi and. xx●iij Gregory the. vij pope otherwyse cal led hiltebrande or rather the hell fyerbrande y e most vngodlyest wretche that euer was fylling al Germanye France and Rome to yea all cristendome ful of batail stryfe stering vp siche tragedyes tumulte betwixt the Emprowr his dukes as had not ben sene before hymself at last deposed and another pope setvp one of them bitterly cursing poysoning another decreed at last and compelled preistis to forsake their lawfull wyues which lyued cccc xx yeres agoo Sence this wyked anticristes days ye se al the vowes of preistes to be violently extorted open whoredome licēcio●sly vsed laughed at And nowe at last when God of his graciouse mercye had sent his prechers w t his worde to delyuere his chosen out of this damp nable fylthy lyuing yet lyke an hardnecked pharao dothe this Greasie gar of win Gregory y e. vij his owne sone saue y t Gregory was neuer so prowd a lucifere resist God his worde wilnot suffer cristes peple to be deliuered out of the popis dampnable decrees and miserable bondage Were not the holy maryed preistes bisshops of the olde testa ment as Melchizedek Ietro Moses Aaron Samuel Helye zacharye and the prophetes and the maryed preistes of the new testament as the Apostles so forthe the bisshops a thousande yeres aftir tyl Gregoryes dayes as good mē as these wyuelesse aduouterers these last cccc xx yeres Preisthod was neuer clogged nor restrayned vnto siche wyked vowes vntyll this Gregoryes dayes wherfore Gregoryes preisthod cannot be y e iuste preisthod which Crist instituted to preche his gospel but a pro digiouse Sodomitical secte of vnshame faced shauelingis Euen the very autor of this prohibicion preistes to not marye declareth y e preisthod the doctrine of their vowes Paule affirming it to be the doctrine of the deuyle the autor of the mordinate orders Whoso lyst to rede the histories holye scriptures shall se that certayn of the apostles as Peter Paule Philip theuangelist or precher had wyues the holy bisshops M. yeres folowing For this writeth the holy martyr Ignatuis that lyued in saynt Paulus tyme in a pistle vnto Philadelph w t thought that wedloke shuld minissh the holynes of the maryed persons saying Iethro and Moses were the preistes of God also there were of the cheif of y e preistis of Criste yet had they wyues childern Was not Aaron and his sonnes the ministers of holy thingis did they not offerevp and pray for the people yet were they maryed And had not also thapostles of our Lorde Iesu Criste wyues I esteme them not nor yet the other blessed men neuer the worse because they were cowpled in wedloke but I praye god saith he I may be wor they to sit at their feet in the kyngdome of God withe these other maryed persons as Abraham Isaac Iacob Ioseph Isaye and as ar these holy maryed men Peter and Paule and other of thapostles which were maryed not for no lust but to encrease their posterite yea it is wryten Mat. viij That Iesus entring y e howse of Peter sawe his wyues mother syk healed hir And Luke in the Actes saithe And we wēt into y e howse of Philip which was one of the. vij that preched y e gospel he had iiij daughters which did hear the scriptures taught them But and if our synful sodomyts saye that aftir Criste had called them to preche to baptyze to breke y e brede to admit prechers for this was all their administraciō commanded of Criste they forsoke their wyues My short soluciō is That they lye proue it by scriptures if they can for Paule thus wryteth Them that ar once maryed not I but the Lorde commandeth them y t the wyfe be not separated frō hir howsbōde which if she be separated she must abyde vnmaryed orels be reconcyled to him nor the mā may not forsake his wy fe And therfore Paule answering siche false prophetis y t rekened him other y e lesse holy for carying aboute their wyues sayd haue we not powr libertye to eat drink to carye w t vs our wyues as do the other apostles Peter and the brethern of the lorde Also who god hath ioyned se y t noman seperate them saith Crist Mat. xix Saynt Clemens as ye rede of Eusebye writing agenst thē y t despysed wedlok saith these wordis wil ye reproue the apostles For bothe Peter Philip had wyues mary ed their daughters to their howsbondes yea and euē Paule hymself steketh not in his pistle to make mēciō of his wyfe greting hir calling hir his very trwe faithful yokefelowe whom he lefte at Philippia for a ceason that he might the spedelier passe thorow the countreys preching the gospell In the east chirches many holy bisshops had their lawfull sonnes by their wyues in tyme of their offyce as ye may rede of Socrate Constantinopolytano in Epiphanio Also Iustinianus Themprowr wri tinge vnto Epiphanian the bisshop of Constantinople commendeth hym the more that he was a preistis sonne Also Gregory Nazianzene was a bisshop a preistis sonne For in the primatyue chirche all the tyme before Gregorye the wyked preistis had wyues and in reding holy scriptures they succeded their fathers in the same offyce as ye may reade of Policarpe pastore of Ephe sine whiche writinge in a pistle to saynt Uictore confesseth hymself to be y e aight bissh lynially descēding from his grete grandfathers into the same office And what is more manifest then y t at Paule writeth 1. Timo. iii. Tit. i. That siche flokfeders must be chaste maryed men content w t one wyfe men that can well gouerne their owne howses in bringig vp their childern supposing that siche men hauing these with other there pre scribed qualites shuld be apte and able to teche well an hole parisshe Who seeth not nowe therfore Wynchester for his owne prowde arrogante mynde wykednes worthely smyten with blyndenes and obstinate induraciō with Pha rao to persecute to diuorse slaye the pore maryed preistes whom the spirit of God commandeth for the auoyding of fornicaciō euery one of them non except to haue his owne wyfe and euery woman non excepte for the same cause to haue hir owne howsbonde And if thou canst not lyue chaste Paule cōman deth the to marye For beter it is saith he to marye then to suffer burniges in they flesshe But vnto wyked Wynchester whiche once semed to fauour Gods worde before he was promoted to the cardinall Thomas Wolsayes seruyce there is no place of repentance nor no grace lefte to beleue Gods worde