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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B02310	An answer, to a little book call'd Protestancy to be embrac'd or, A new and infallible method to reduce Romanists from popery to Protestancy	Con, Alexander.	1686 (1686)	Wing C5682; ESTC R171481	80,364	170

Advers inveighs against the rigour of the Catholick Church not knowing sayes he that true Vertue consists mainly in an Intire Victory we should Endeavour to get over our own Passions Answer Holy People Endeavour to get this Victory by the Mortification of their Bodies Iudith that famous Woman chosen by God for the saving of her Nation wore a Hair Cloath upon her Loins not to speak of Her Fasting all the Dayes of Her Life except the Sabbaths New Moons and the Feasts of the House of Israel Iudith 8. St. Iohn the Baptists led a rigorous Life in the Wilderness and St. Paul besides his stupendious Labour by Teaching and Preaching added a chastising or Scourging of his Body least after he had Preach'd to others he should become a Reprobat Himself 1 Cor 9. v. 27. What means he 2 Cor. 4. v. 10. when he says always bearing about with us the Mortification of Jesus in our Bodies that the Life of Jesus may be manifested in our Bodies What was this Life of Jesus a perpetual Mortification of his Body from his Cradle to his Cross Our new inlightned Men find another way to overcome their Passions to wit abstaining from the Chastisement of the Body Deny thy self take up thy Cross and follow me sayes our Saviour Matth. 16. v. 24. But does not our Adversary seem rather to say take thy satisfaction in Eating and Drinking thy fill and so thou wilt be strong to follow him Pamper thy Flesh and so thou wilt be strong to overcome thy Lust Eat and Drink thy fill and I 'll warrant thee thou shalt alay thy Passion of Eating and Drinking for an hour or two But his Experience may have told him that thus he puts a Sword in his Enemies Hand who tho' he lay quiet for a while will rise up more firce hereafter Bellarmine said indeed that if he were Pope he would take away Lent but he added that in its place he would order to Fast on Wednesday all the Year over Does the exchange of fourty Fasts with fifty two favour the inclination of our Adversary to Feasting SECT III. The Proofs our Adversary brings out of Scripture for the Marrying of Church-Men are either willfull or Ignorant mistakes of the Word of God MArriage in the purest Age was not forbidden to Ecclesiasticks sayes our Adversary which he proves by this passage 1 Tim. 3. v. 2. A Bishop must be blamless the Husband of one Wife Answer First was not St. Paul a Bishop Had he a Wife when he said 1 Cor. 7. v. 8. I say to those who are not Married its good for them if they remain so even as I The sense then of that place is that as St. Paul would have the Church Widow to be the Wife of one Husband or to have been only Married once 1 Tim. 5. v. 9. So he would have a Bishop to be the Husband of one Wife or to have been only once Married Otherwayes what does St. Paul say here particular to a Bishop have other Men two Wives Note in the Birth of the Church it was hard to find among new Converts Men of Maturity for the Government of a Bishoprick who had not been once Married especially at Candy of which Church St. Paul speaks here to Timothy because as Strabo writes L. 10. They had an Antient Law by which all of their Republick were forced from their very Youth to Marry Again to prove that Ecclesiasticks may Marry he brings this passage of St. Paul Marriage is Honourable in all and the Bed undefil'd Hebr. 13. v. 4. Answer First the same St. Paul says 1 Cor. 7. v. 38. He who gives his Virgin in Marriage does well but he that gives her not in Marriage does better And 1 Cor. 7. v. 1. 'T is good for a Man not to touch a Woman The former passage is then to be understood thus Marriage is Honourable in all who may Lawfully Marry but not between Father and Daughter Brother and Sister In Church-Men who have vow'd Chastity in Church-Widows who being admitted to the Service of the Church upon their resolution of not Marrying according to St. Paul 1 Tim. 5. v. 11. Incur Damnation if they Marry because they cast of their first Faith as the Apostle speaks to wit to CHRIST Secondly the Greek Text has Timios o gamos en pasi that is Honourable Marriage in all so where Protestants without ground add is Catholicks with ground add be in the imperative mood and so it imports First an Exhortation to those who are Married that they live Faithful to one another not Dishonouring by Incontinency their Marriage but keeping their Bed undefil'd But why will the Apostle that Marriage be Honourable in all keeping their Bed undefil'd Because as he presently adds Adulterers God will Judge Thus you see Catholicks have a ground to supply the sentence not with is but with be or let it be Secondly To those who desire to Marry that they do not offer to Marry when they know they are not free to Marry being engag'd to others or having an Impediment and so make their Marriage when the Impediment is discover'd Dishonourable However our Latin and English Cath. Text have neither is nor be but Honourabile conubium in omnibus Honourable Marriage in all conform to the Greek Original Text. In the third place to justifie the Marriage of Church-Men who have Vow'd Chastity he brings what St. Paul sayes to Tim. 4. v. 3. That forbiding to Marry is a Doctrine of Devils where he speaks of Manicheans Encratists and Marcionists and others of that Cabal as St. Chrysostom remarks in his 12. Hom. upon that passage it is quite another thing to forbid absolutely to Marry then to forbid only those who have Vow'd Chastity to Marry The Catholick Church does not forbid to Marry but only forbids to break a Vow made to God I think no Body will say that it is a Doctrine of Devils to fulfill what one has solemnly promised to God The thing being Lawful in it self Deut. 23. v. 21. When thou shalt Vow a Vow to the Lord thy God thou shalt not slak to pay it for the Lord thy God will surely require it of thee Now the Catholick Church shows she Honours Marriage more then Protestants because she looks upon it as a Sacrament which Protestants do not His instance of Zacharie sayes nothing against us for we do not deny that the Priests of the Old Law Married but only we say they did not use their Wives those dayes their turn was to Sacrifice Luke c. 1. v. 23 24. And seeing our Priests must Sacrifice every day they ought to abstain from that Action so remote from the Spirit and dulling it in order to Divine thoughts at that time that our mind ought to be sursum corda raised above our senses hence Origen said Hom. 23. in num It seems to me that it belongs only to him to offer the continual Sacrifice who has dedicated himself to a continual and perpetual