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A02573	The actes of Englysh votaryes comprehendynge their vnchast practyses and examples by all ages, from the worldes begynnynge to thys present yeare, collected out of their owne legendes and chronycles by Iohan Bale. ...; Acts of English votaries. Part 1	Bale, John, 1495-1563.	1546 (1546)	STC 1270; ESTC S100591	56,964	138

the fyre for perfourmaunce of the sacryfyces least yt shuld at anye tyme go out These were chosen in before they were .xvi. years olde there remaynyng vnmaryed the space of .xxx. years and others alwayes by that tyme succeded in their rowmes Some of these were presbyteresses as they pleased the spyrituall fathers And as the lyghtes went out by their neglygence their ponnyshmentes were to be beaten of the Byshoppes More ouer yf anye of thē chaunced to fall in aduoutery except they ded yt in the darke with them their iudgement was to be buryed in the grounde quycke Alwayes they went awaye vyrgynes from them what so euer was done in the meane season at the .xxx. years ende they were in lyberte to marrye yf they wolde Thys testyfyeth Hermanus Torrentinus and Iohannes Textor with other autours Yet was not thys abhomynable superstyeyon so tyrannouslye handeled amonge them than as yt hath bene sens a monge their successours the papystes whom by their cruell conceyons syned they neuer so longe they sent at the last to hell with a conscyence adust were not the lorde more mercyfull ¶ Brute with hys Druydes IN processe of tyme gote Brutus Syluius thys lande of the Albyons by conquest in the .xviij. yeare of Heli the hygh prest of the Israelytes lyke as Aeneas ded Italye and other great aduētourers their regyons And of hym was yt called Brytayne and the people therof Brytaynes After he had fournyshed yt with newe regymentes and lawes there entered in a newe fashyoned sort of prestes all dyuerse from the other and they were called Druydes These dwelt in the forestes lyke heremytes and procureth both publyque and pryuate sacryfyces to be done To them was yt alwayes put to dys usse all matters of relygyon to appoynt therunto the ceremonyes to brynge vp youthe in naturall dyscyplyne to ende all controuersyes ▪ Plinius Strabo Cornelius Tacitus Caius Iulius and other approued autours report thē to haue their first orygynall in thys lande but that apereth not true Rather shuld they seme to come first hyther frō Athens a most famouse cytie of the Grekes Iohan Hardynge reporteth in hys Chronycle that kynge Bladud brought them first frome thens allegynge there Merlyne for hys autour ¶ The Druydes and their chastyte VVhat their rule was conceruynge women we shall not nede to seke farder than to the .vi. chaptre of Baruch and the .xiiij. chaptre of Daniel in the Byble Baruch sayth there that their custome was to decke their whores with the Iewels and ornamentes of their Idolles Daniel sayth that they with them deuoured vp the daylye offerynges and sacryfyces of Bel. Yet Hector Boethius writeth in the seconde boke of hys Scottysh Chronycle that there were some amonge them whiche taught one euerlastynge God alone to be worshypped without Image made or other symylytude els Neyther allowed they them sayth he that applyed vnto their Goddes the symylytudes of beastes after the Egyptyanes maner as the Papystes do yet to thys daye Saynt Marke to a Lyon Saynt Luke to a calfe and Saynt Iohan to an egle besyde Saynt Antonyes pygge Saynt Georges colte and Saynte Dunstanes deuyll but greatlye reproued them Neuerthelesse yet were they great teachers of sorcerye For as testyfyeth Iohan Textor in hys offycynes so expert were the Brytaynes in art magyck in the dayes of plynye that in a maner they passed the Parthyanes whiche were the first masters therof ¶ Prestes marryed and vnmarryed NOw as concernynge the prestes of the Hebrues or Israelytes for all these ages whiche were the peculyar flocke of God they had all wyues that were ryghtuouse amonge them accordynge to the Relygyon that he first appoynted them Not Melchisedech Abraham Moyses Aaron Phinees Samuel Nathan Zorobabel Iesus Esdras Mathathias soche other were all marryed men and had chyldrē The Scripturs report that these men were beloued with God and that ' in holynesse non were euer founde lyke vnto them But neyther was that for their vowes nor yet for their good intentes Eccli 44. and so fourth .vi. chapters more If anye were chast vowers that tyme the .ij. prestes that lusted after Susanna were of them Daniel 13. So were the wāton sonnes of Heli and Samuel 1. Reg. 2. 1. Reg. 8. with soche other lyke Which were afore God verye reprobates for despysynge hys ordre as wele in that as in other thynges Of soche chast vowers were there some at the verye tyme whā Christ was borne both relygyouse prestes and leuytes which were most hygh lye taken amonge them These thynkynge marryage vnholye abstayned from the vse of women but they spared not to worke execrable fylthynesse amonge thē selues and one to polute an other Zacharye a marryed prest and father of holye Iohan Baptyst a man for hys marryage founde iust afore God reprehended that abhomynacyon in them was cruellye slayne for yt as testyfyeth Epiphanius li. 1. To. 2. De heresibus He was put vnto deathe sayth Philip Melanchton vpon the .xi. chaptre of Daniel for rebukynge the vyces of hys college ¶ Christ alloweth marryage in hys IEsus Christ the eternall sonne of God neuer contempned the firste ordynaunce of hys euerlastynge father but had yt insuche reuerence that he wolde not be borne but vndre yt He found his worthy mother Mary no professed Nonne as the dottynge papystes haue dreamed to couer their sodometrye with a most precyouse coloure but an honest mannys wyfe marryed accordynge to the custome than vsed Matt. 1. and Luce 1. In her so marryed without eyther vowe or promes of virgynyte by the holye Ghostes most wonderfull workynge was he incarnated and so became man to redeme vs from the captyuyte of synne and restore vs agayne to the full fauer of hys father He honoured marryage with the fyrst myracle that he outwardlye wrought in our manhode and called vnto hys Apostleship not wyuelesse vowers but marryed men Ioan 1. Mar et 1. He wēt verye gentyllye vnto peters howse and healed hys wyues mother which laye there syeke of a feuer takynge hys repast there tarryenge with thē all the nyght and doynge great cures there also And at hys departure in the mornynge he neyther commaunded Peter to breake vp howsholde nor yet to forsake hys wyfe and make her a vowesse Marci 1. Luce. 4. Math. 8. He neuer cōmaunded nor yet exacted the vowe of vyrgynyte in all hys whole Gospell but left all men in lyberte to marrye yf they lyst forbyddynge al men fyrmelye to make anye lawe of coaccyon or of separacyon where God hath sett fredome in marryage Math. 19. Marci 10. No forsakynge of wyfe and chyldrē admytted he euer but as the vnmoueable constaunt stādynge by hys worde requyreth yt in them that he hath appoynted to suffre deathe vndre the worldes tyrannye for yt The Apostles fyrst preachers marryed PEters wyfe went with hym in the tyme of his preaching 1. Cori. 9. and