47 A Commentaryupon theGo(pel Ch 9 is not fimply neceflary to falvation: but only ofexpediency:: in. afmuch as he that can keep himfelf ucmarried, hath little,elfe to :Cot -7 3'.3 5. care for but how he may pleafe the Lord, and attend upon his á tad p r work without diífrac`tion, fitting clofe at it ( as the Greek word ä e.+rx7ar. fgnifies ) andnot takenoffby ocher bufineffe. An inffance whereof was clearly to be ken in George Princeof Anhalt, whofe family is laid to have been Ecclefi.a, erfcaderi4, Curia, a Church, an Univerfity and a Court ; whole fanaity and chaflity in the Ingle date to his dying day was fùch, that Melaeníit,hcn publíkely deli- vered it of him, that hewas the man,that of any then alive, might 2x &aalpoicero molt certainty .expert the promifed reward of eternal! life : But Me;anchrboris this is not every mans happineffe : andwhere it is, thepride of vir- auditore bac ginity, is no late foul: a fin then impurity, faith .lugufin. And babeo.Scutrer.. Paphnutius a fin le man and a Confeflour in the Primitive conreJfusn Church Paid, that the marriage-bed undefiled was true chaftity> cum trgrri,na Thofe Papifh votaries, that boafced fo much of thegift of conti- aaxore cejlita nency in chetnfelves, and c caeted it of others, have (fbr-a punish- tem e (le dice ment of their arrogance and violence) been oft given up tonoto- bat. SoCr.EC. does filthïnefíe.a as theCardinaliof Cremona, after has flout re_ eie/ :ft.tibs plying in the Councel of London againft Prieles marriage, was eOP* I i Ihamel taken, the night following, with a notable whore. Lim- / t. and Mon, y e , goes, mentor Arckabiihopof Canterbury, a great enemy toPrief}smar- bid.icGz. stage, for all his gay thew of Monkifh virginity and tingle life, had afon called Paulus !i:foaachue Ca4nenfs,whom he fogladly pre, . ibid r;aa. fared to beAbbot of St Albons. Dr Wrficon (Prolocuroar to the difpetation at Oxfordagainft Cranmer, Latimer and Rielly, who jbiJ.,tits. alto palled fentence upon them, inveighing against Cramer,, for that he,had been,fòmecimes a married laian,)was not long after ta- ken in adultery,ándfor. the Larne was by Cardinal! Poole pileiron: ail'his fpirivall livings. Save they to whomit is given] Maldone:e the Je:uitefaith, it is given to any one that is but willing to have ir, and askech it of God and that,becaufe Marriage is given to all that are willing . or f. ro,it. But this is i 1. aife Ror our Saviour excepts Ets.auchs. z.lnc,on-- lequént, becaufe the gift ofaMarriage proceeds f.om a principle of nature, but continency ¡Trim a fpeciall indulgent e : which they that r:,ave not, are required to marry for a remedy, And yet Papiffs tt3oft injurioufly Turbid force to marry atany_riine,as there(lergy,_ all atfame times and that, not as a prec t t córiveniteï.cy, but siecefty and holinefle. .. Merle ra,
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