_:z±_\ . . . V EC JJV: JL i Clcrici ctfii~ UOJUft rxpurgauom:. • Ijidore fa1th, Let tbtm &D11tAtnt, or ittthtm mATTJ hur Dnt : T.hey A j'~m in'i~- cite him, Ltt tlum&ontame; and leave out the rc:ft : fomcwhat worfc: then the De. p~~;,..~:l'',':::~ vill citedScripture. Bur, I might have fpar<d all this labuur ofwriting, could r perrmm' fl<K~ fwade whofoever dther doubts, or denies this, to read ovcrrhat one Epilllc which an~; 3u~~t~~-~ k HNidtricm BB. of At'f}Rrge wrote learnedly, and vehemently, to Pope Nich1l.t1 the :::'~~~v;,K,lo firft, in this fubjcct : which ifit doe not anfwcr all cavils, and facisfie all Readers ~':1"'.",'1 ~;;,~- and convince all (notwilfull)adverfarics, let ':'ebe c~ft,in fo j~ft a caufc. Th~re yo~ k ,::;,b, ""'- thall fee, how jull, how exped1enr, how anc1ent rillS hbmy 1s; together w1th the dc<iM, "("' feeble and injurious grounds of forced Continency : Read it, and fee whether you t:,::i!,';)~: canddire a better Advocate. After him (fo ftrongly did he plead, and fo happily) M'""'•' w- for two hundred yearesmore, rhis frccdoine flill bletrod tiofe parrs ; yer, not wirh- !':;t:ot~~.h:;~~ outextreme oppofi~ioo .. Hifiories arewimdfes of the bufie, and not u~Iear!le_d c_om. B ""'''.U.H•I- bats ofthole umes,m thiS Argument. But now whe th body of Anuchnfhamfme dnkw- •tifi•- began to be compleat, and to ftand upmfil a flil e tha~ after a thouf:md yeares ~~.:~~~~;£. from Chrift; this liberry wliich before wavered ;undcr Nithr.--,, now by rhe ""' Syl.mf"' hands of Ltl 9.NithDIM ~.and that brand ofhdl,Grtgor7 7· was utterly ruined,wives ';::r_;;11~1'~· debarred, fingle life urged:' A good rurne forwhoremafters (faith <.Aventint) who Fo• ~Aa;:.~ nowfor one wife might have fix hundred Bedfellowes. ' M"'.b"'"' f•t· But, how approved of the better fort appears (befides that the Churches did rina Y~~~?t;:;~·t.s. ofhim each where for Amichrift) inthatatthe "' Councell of W~rmes the French Gwumkom - and German Bithops depofed this GrtgDTJ, in this name ( amongft other quarrels) ~~~~~~q~~:: for n feparntio~ man and wife. Violen~e did this; nor reaf?n : neither was Gods r<xcouu pm will here queft1oned, but the Popes wllfulnetre, What brolles hereon enfued, let C ~tUi.crcub.sin~ o A"Utntine witneffe. ~'1'!.~";.76. The bickcrings ofourEnglithClergie, with thcir Donft•nu, about this time, ~re n .r.~uitos ::~b memorable in ourowneHitl:ories, whichteach us how la[e, how repiniogly,how un· '" 0 """' r,p,- jullly, they ftooped under this yoake. I had rather fend my Readerro BAle and F11<, ~~ imcrdi4o then abridge their Monuments, to enlarge mine owne. r"c~do<u ·~· 1 have(! hope) fet~ht this truth farreenough;•nd deduced it low enough, rhrouoh :;:~(~:;~·~,; many Ages,to r_he midft ofthe ra~eof 1\ntichri_ftian tyranny. There left our libetty1 g<m Ch<ifl~ there began thmbonda~e. Our hberry1shapplly renewed wuh the Gofpell: what ~~~~~~~1 7:1u~; God, what his Church hathever allowed,wedoe enjoy. ~herein we are not 3lone: p•r•lu Chnn; The Grceke Church, as large for extent as the Rm•n (and, mfome parts ofit, better aftfi~~,fcv:;;~ for thdr fo~ndneffe) doe.thus; and thus have_evc:.r ~one. . . D ~~i-•• "'fu"" Let Pap1lls and Arhe1fts fay what they will: 1t IS fate ernng wuh God and his pu1.7.dc .'\ono rer Church. 1 100. in Syno.. ~~;b~\~f~~~,jotibusuxoru,:ante non prohibius.An~clme ({Dith rblt Hifl:ori:an) 'Wttlt~t firft t~11t f!rblltft mari.:tt,t fltbt t:llrtit•[ En,bnJ( n J tbt~ w.:.r .W~ut tiJcJCAr •f «1r Lwd toi•.)TIIJ tbt11 t 'ZJCi' /rtt. It cm Fabtanus lll>tt01 an ftuffc faccrdotc' per .fnnos 1o8o. I ----------------- TomyfifterM';'. Brti N SLE Y. E P r s T. I V, of thefomw nit 11 be rtpenttd •f. I T is feldome fe.ne, that a filent gtiefe fpeeds well: for either a man mull: have llrong hands of refolution to ftrengle it in his bof~me; or elfe it drives him ro fome fccrcr mifchiefe : wh.::reas forrow revealed is halle remedied, and ever abares in rhe uttering. Yourgriefe was wifely difclofed; and thall be as ftrangely anflvcred. I am gladofyourlorrow; ~nd thould \•eepe for you, if you did not rhus mourne. Your forrowis, that ysucannot enough grieve for your finnes. Let me reil you, rhatthe Angels themfelves ling at this lamentation; neirherdoth the eatth I afford any fo fwcet muficke in the earesofGod. Thisheavinefl"eisthewayrojoy. Worldly forrow is worthy of pirie, becaufcit leaderbro death :bur this defe1ves nothing but envie and grarularion. If thofe teares were common, hell would not (o ___ _ enlarge E
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