304 AKerr,' elation oftheApocalypfe. C A P. 9. that cutteth and pierceth doth árife from thence, fpecially feeing it is a creature that is fo angry andmoódy,as we have declared before, verf.3. Nowwhat torment is tobe comparedwith that whenmen are fpoyledof their goods, pulled away from their wives, bereaved of their children, which are the chicle comfort of this lite, and this not by any necellity of the divine providence, the griete whereof timemay weare away ; but when thofe which be alive,are drawne afnnder from their living wives , children and friends , to the daily renewing of their griete , fo that a man remaineth alive only tobe miferable ? Now that men indured all thefe things from the Sara- cens, it is more known, then that it needeth any examples, and wee fhallas well fee that men fuffered the like at thehands of the beg- ging Fryers, if we will give a little more diligent heed. For thefe are they who fpoyled heirs of their patrimonies, by fitting clofe by their parents at the honreoftheir death,andby wringing from them partlywith threats of Pzsrgatory , partly with hope of delivering them thenceby mafngs, and dirges) their fat Farms , Lands, 'Fields, andheaps of money. For which purpofe any wordwas fufficienr, though it came from them when they were halfedead, or though they had given up the Ghoft, any groaning noyfe that came front them, was taken for an affirmative anfwer to their interrogatories : It was very hard for heirs to be(tripped by this coufenage of all their goods, but it was moregrievous to be fpoyled of their wives and children; what other did they then this, whenunder a thewof a vow,they broke off marriages, withdrew children from obedience to their parents commandement, and made them hide themfelves. inMonafteries in fpight of them? Tothis purpofe did thofe worthy Decrees of theirs-ferve, as fit-ft , That if any man (hall fay that a contrail of marriagemay not be diffolved by a folemne profefon of fome7Wigion, Which either of the marriedperfoni'ballmake, let him be accurfed. This is theDecree of the Connellof Trent,but it was in ufe in former times , chiefly when thefe Monks abounded. Yea, many examples do teach us , which beeaufe they are fowell known, 1 fpare to fpeak'.of, that they held, thatnotonly contras of Mai.. riages are void by aprofefl on' of Religion , at which time the fire cf lint is more fervent, and it is the greater torment, not toobtain a mans defire, but that even marriages when they were confumtnate, were i n this refpeFi void,Moreover, that it is lawfxllfor, Children to either into a Relilkn -n gg.Rinfi their parents Wills: which wasanother cruel! rack' of miferable Men. 'Therefore they Cooke away wives and
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