yeare637·) wasfaine to requireofthel!ng/ifb, that they would keepetheir Pafch afterrheRomane fafhion ; a difference (as invas then taken) ofno fmall importance. The (loryofS• .!i:hnrH and ColmanniH, may be herein an abundant wimeOe: And forrheBrilai,.,,Bed#leftthemin the doze, bothofbisLife.mdHifiorie, fafl to Grttct, loofe from RtJme. After theGreci•n forme we celebrated the Sacrament ofBaptifme. After the Gre- <ian Libertywe continued theMariages ofperfons Ecclefiafiicall (through fo many Centuriesofyears) without fcandall, without the conrradifrion oftheCI!rifli.n World; foasnow wee arebut repoffeffedofthe ancient right ofour fore-rathers, which theinterpofition ol the Romifh tyranny,for awhile,injuriouOy debarred.Our adverfarieshave wont to brand us for the uncharitable cenfuresofour fore- Fathers, and can they think thefucceffions ofmany Generations fo faithlefie, thatthey rr.ade folemn vowes, for noorher purpofe, butonly to breake them? Itwas the quefiion ofthe rich and precious ']""elloflingland, to which his Hardie adverfariehad never the face to reply. My Refuters forehead is flronger with aweakerwir; Let himrrie here the power ofhis audacity. And iftheChurch ofthis lland, in thedayes ofher forced fervitude to the &man See, maintained this liberty (oswee prove in rhe fequell) and derived it to poflerity,howmuch more free 01all it be for us torenue and injoy it, after the jufl cxcuffion ofthat fervrle yoke? Let now c. I!. p-oewafiegood houres, and marrecleanePaper in difproving the Mari1ge ofRQmijh votaries, and in lhemean time come as neeremy quefrion, as Tha111es is to Tiber: What isrhisbut to mock theReader, and abufehimfelfe? How muchwiferis hegrown in the proceffe ofhis difcourfe, where he grants our Mariage, anddenies ourClergy? from whichweak and witlefTeHold, ifwe beat him not in thedueplace,we fuffer not enough from that rude Hand. SECT. IIII. HAving thenhithertodetetted no error, no ignorance but his own; be now de- ~'{"'· p.17• fcends to untruths,and findshere fo many mifiakings,lyes, f•!fifications, that a Readerwould wonder by what an I couldcouch fo manyofthemin fo fmall a room; D and might verily think that I couldout-ly the Legends, and omju~gle aJefuit. Bur erel have done, thefefhall appeale to be but the fic:tionsofa paffionltefupi<ivr, the Man !hall berooler, I fh•ll be innocent, andmy Readetfhall fay, that ifthat forebead had not been fo oftcrotfed, it couldnor have had folitrle !ham e. My firfi untruth is, that I avouch S. PaNI to call the l'ngle lifeofPriefis, ADo· C\rineofDevils. Reader, ismy deuttor awake? I faid, that to mainraine theun· lawfulneffe of theMariageof theMinifrer ofGod,is,according toSaint PaNI,A DoC\rineo(Dev!ls, and now hewould perfwade the World, I fa id thusofthe fingle life of hisPnefis. What cah wemake ofthis? That fingle life isa Dofrrine? Ifnor truth, yet let himlearn rofpeake fenfe. But that bemay not alwayes refute what I neveraffirmed; I mull: ghtfTeat what hemeant: He wouldelude thischarge, with E that fiale fhift, worn ourwith the Pensofhis Predeceffors, that Saint Pa11l is ro bee under!l:oodaccordin~toTheodorel, ofthofewhich call Mariage execrable: accor- "•P<i.u tx.- dingto Saint dufti>t,ihatfay,Mariage ioevill,and ofthe Devils making : according mbi/Uo toCitmenJ AlexandrinrH, (j)frhofe that abhorreMariage: OfManichees, and orher Heretikes, ., Amlwofo and EptphanitH, from which C•lhclikes arefo f•m lhal 1he7 appr{)f)e il for 11 (,JC,tNJJtRI. . Firfi, thewords ofSaint PaNI, are('"'"'""" ,..,.;,) forbidding to Marry,not condemning Mariage.Then we know well,what [he TacianJ,Ebionilu,Encratiter,M911 · t.. lpr, Marciowilu, Maot<hees, Adamifes,andApoftoliq•es held ofMarrimony. The Apolllebrands themhere: Butwhat?Themonly? Whileshe condemns them,doth hefTeethofethat partakewith them' Theall: isone,Forhiddance ofMariage; whether ~ofome,or tomore,or to aii,S.P••Iexpreffes nor: the number doth not vary thequabry. And ifone beaparrofall,then ro condemn manage infomeone kinde ofmen, can
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