L IB.I. The Honour oftheMariedClergie. 70i A why not fo long as Evethe Maid ofMetm? TheSpirit: ofGod (if at lea~ he may be allowed forc~e Authorof<;:ontinency) breathethwhere and when be hfieth, and that God wh1ch makes Mmoges in Heaven either averts the heart from thefe thoughts,or inclinesit at his pleafure. Shortly, Th; gte>t Dollor ofthe Gentiles hod never learned thisDivinity of Dm>a_r, whole charge is, • Defr~Ntl notofie another, except 'IPith co11jentfor • fo•[o11, that Je flr4J gi'lle J••r folimto Fojlinglnd Prayer: And againe, Cometo~ttber, t/J~t S4to~tempi JOH not thro•ghyour incontine~~q. Heonelywanted my Monitor, ro )Ogge h1m on theElbow, as here: Wh41 nreds aU tMt Jlifhlirsejfe (ifthey can fafely comabe) rvhilu they give themftlvu to extraordinOrJilewtiofl, WIJ) 1101 m.,<? Why not •lwaiul It is pity chat noman wonld advife theApofile, howgreat a gap this Doctrine ofhir opent to B aU laftiviollf,ejfe. Let me hove butleaveto puc S. Pa11l1 Name lnfieadofmme, inro rh~ challengeofmy Refuter, and rhushe argues. Ifs. PaulfoJ tlklt ,.;, '-""·,,for aD?bi/e they are able to li?Je chape ,6111 not fol' 4rJY long wkilt; I atk! ogaine, How long th4t 'IPhilejhaUendure? 41ZilwhatrP"ro111 thqhave thereinfor not faUing? Jeeing it 1114Jfo foU out, . thatintherPhileappointedt!Jef maybemore tempt<dt!Jeo tbeJ fh•U hugaine i11oUtheir livttafter. Howfawcy would.this Sophifiric be? how fhamelelfe? The \Yords are his; onely theName ischanged: whatthe Elell velfell would anfiver in fuch acafe for himfelfe, let c. E. fuppofe returned by mee. c SECT. XIII. THE Refuter hath borrowed fome weapons of his Mafier Bell.,mine, and · knowes not how to weare them. It would move any mans difdaiRe, ro fee how abfurdly thofe poore Arguments are blundred together; Wemufi difiinguilh them aswemay. · Fir!!, S. PAul condemoes the youngWidowes mentioned, thereforehe over- R!for.p.6J. throwes this impoffib\lity of conrai•ing. I anfwer: S. P4ul advifes the youngWidowes to marry, and admits none imothe Chmch-booke under rhreefcoreyeares: therefore he efiablifhes in fome this impoffibil ity. Secondly, S. Paul advifes Tir:tolhJ to live chalk Reader, tell him theword is Rtf"'· I!'•J, 64 • D (_.,.,,£) which their own vulgor, I Tit.B. rurnes,Sobtr; and in o Ti1.5. Prudent: Bur to gram himhi• own Phrafe; Can my Detetl:or defcry nodifference betwix,tCZhafie and Single?Did he and hi; fellows never heareof a conjugal! Chafiity?Sothey have !Hll wont to fpeake, as ifChafiity were onely oppolite tomariage, as ifno lingle life could be uncbafie. His Ejpe11U11s might have caught himthat verfe inVirgil, C•JI• 'E"f"'P"· pro p•diciti•'"Jervat domHt: and he might have heard of that Roman lawofVefials, d«l~m.M"''· C•JI• ex c•Jik, pur.e expurl<fu>tto: yea his Er•fmtu might have taught him yet fur- ~~·d••sr"•fi lher, rE divffjD nibit probihet in conjugioV!rgitJitllti loc'lllit ejfe; th~t even in Mariage J~;f:::~i7,~ theremay be Virginity. fl• aiklfw. oThirdly, theFathers exhort to Virginity;efpecially S.Am6rofoand S. Aujlin. Let 1J.':::."'P"f.'" him tell this to them that know it not, to them thatdillike truechallity in Virgins, R<[i.r.p.64. E not to themthat condemneunchafinefl'e in apretendedVirginity. • :~;;:;-:,:~ Towhat vermes do not theF21hers exhort?yetnever fi.1ppoling them to beWith- mihidif!idl• inour Lure. Lafily, where is the fhameofmy 1\efmcr, t}jar cites Auflin as theMan d"'/hr. Ibid.~r on whom he depends for his univerfall poffibilityofContinency; when his owne '''"''do. c,E. MaldMat profefl'es, that S. A•iflin is the onely enemy to thisDollrine? Fourthly,Where tl!ere is impoffibility or neceffity, there is no finne, nocounfell; R.f.,. P·6+ as no m•n linnes in notmakin!( newS!arres,in not doingMiracles. Allale fhift, that oft founded in the eare! of A~<ftin and Profper from their Pelagi1111; The natural! man in this depravednetfeofefiacecannot but offend God, thereforehe linnes not inGnning: C?unfell given fheweswhat we lbould doe, not whu we can. 'Juhen- , A"{.t.d, NAt. ikldmonet, CJ-c. faith Auflin; In commanding he admonilbeth us both to doe &Grar_, 43 • whatwe can , and to alke that whichwecannot doe. In Continency then our indeOoo 3 vour
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