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A07116	A defence of priestes mariages stablysshed by the imperiall lawes of the realme of Englande, agaynst a ciuilian, namyng hym selfe Thomas Martin doctour of the ciuile lawes, goyng about to disproue the saide mariages, lawfull by the eternall worde of God, [and] by the hygh court of parliament, only forbydden by forayne lawes and canons of the Pope, coloured with the visour of the Churche. Whiche lawes [and] canons, were extynguyshed by the sayde parliament ...	Parker, Matthew, 1504-1575.; Morison, Richard, Sir, d. 1556, attributed name.; Ponet, John, 1516?-1556, attributed name.	1567 (1567)	STC 17519; ESTC S112350	311,635	404

2. Albertus Grang. q. 3. cā 18. Ostro gottorum Poli. in the historie of Englande The sowers of the old heresies in sunderie countries were vnmaried priestes ▪ that pretēded virginitie 1. The firste heretike that euer was after Christe ▪ abhorred the Godly marriage of priestes and kept a whore 2. The firste heretike ī persia abhorred the marriage of Priestes August epis 74. Deu●erio 144. after Christ. 3. The firste Anabaptist was an vnmaried priest 4. The .i. heretike ī Spain abhorred the Marriage of priestes August de here 5. The first no table heretike in Englande was an vnmaried mōke Anno do 400. 6. The firste notable heretike in Africa was an vnmaried priest 7. And the first in Paphlagonia Aemenia wee vnmaried priests was a wicked man Cain by name the firste borne childe that Abraham had was wicked namely Ismael The firste borne childe that Isaac had was wicked namely Esau. Ergo the firste borne and eldest children of all men be wicked Or els this waie Saule was the firste kyng that was chosen to rule Israell and he was a wicked man Romulus the firste kyng in Rome who like a moste traiterous tyrant killed his owne brother Remus wherefore he also was an euill man The firste kyng in Spaine was a tyraunte that came out of Gothia The firste kyng in Fraunce that obtained any generall rule was the tyraunt Clodoueus whiche when he had ouercome the Persians occupied the Kyngdome of Fraunce by tyrannie The first Emperour was Iulius Caesar who entred by ciuill warre treason and tyrannie The first kyng in Englande that raigned alone draue out the other Kynges and occupied their landes and possessions by tyrannie will you now therefore conclude that all kynges be naughtie men and tyrantes If this kinde of reasonyng seme so good in your sight then I praie you harken to this other like thereunto The firste heretique that euer was in all the worlde after Christes death was Symon Magus of Samaria who hauyng not the gifte of sole life would not enter the holy estate of Matrimonie but folowyng or rather beginnyng the Popishe kinde of chastitie kepte an harlotte named Selene or Helena as some doe call her The first heretique that was in Persia was Manes first roote of the heretiques called Maniches who liued in suche chastitie as the Popishe priestes do not onely refusyng to marie hym self but condemnyng Mariage in the ministers of his secte whom thei called as saincte Augustine Epist. 72. saieth Electos The firste Anabaptist in Rome was Nouatus the heretique an vnmaried prieste whose secte allowed not mariage in their priestes and denied repentaunce to offendours The firste heretiques that sprang in Spaine were the Priscilianistes as S. Augustine saieth aboute the yere of our Lorde 〈◊〉 who so muche abhorred the mariage of priestes and of other of their secte that thei caused the same practise whiche now most shamefully is practised in Englande that is to saie thei caused to be deuorsed viros a nolentibus faeminis faeminas a nolentibus viris .i. Husbandes from their vnwillyng wiues and wiues from their vnwillyng husbandes as saincte Augustine saieth The aucthour of that secte was Priscillianus an vnmaried Busshoppe of Abile in Spaine The first notable heretiques of Englande was Pellagius a Monke about .400 yeres after Christ who liued suche a single life as the Papistes do now And about an hūdred yeres before hym in Africa was Arrius an vnmaried prieste of Alexādria as bothe Epiphanius Eusebius and other doe witnesse The firste heritiques in Paphlagonia and Armenia were Eustachiani whose chief heresie was the condemnyng of priestes mariage so that thei refused to receiue the Communiō at the handes of suche Priestes as were maried for the whiche thyng thei were condemned Anno domini .324 in the counsaile holden at Grangris about the tyme of Nicene Counsaile whiche was confirmed by the sixte Sinode in Trullo holden at Constantinople And from whence came the doctrine of Machomet whiche now is folowed of the Turkes and Sarcēs and is muche largelier spred abrode then is the doctrine of Christe Sergius an vnmaried Monke was the firste beginner of the Turkes law Came it not from Sergius an vnmaried Monke and fledde for his naughtinesse from Byzans of whose lessons Mahomette made his Alcoran And all the heretiques before the tyme of Heluidius if it be true that you saie that Heluidius was the firste maried prieste in Christendome were vnmaried Priestes Heresie and Lecherie met together in vnmaried Priestes S. Ciprian lib. 1. Epis. 3. The Sophisticall reason of the Papistes disclosed ▪ and by the like confuted Yet were some of them Stupratores virginum depopulatores Matrimoniorū Rauishers of Uirgines and defilers of Matrimonie as sainct Ciprian saieth writyng of Nouatus Some liued in luxuria voluptatibus as you testifie as Carpocrates c. Now to conclude all these of whom I haue spoken were Priestes and vnmaried Priestes and heretiques Ergo all your Popishe virgine Priestes if your reason were good that marie not bee heretiques And now you see what ye haue wōne with reasonyng ab indefinito ad vniuersale If now Marten can not deuise some pretie kinde of shift he hath shamed hym self with this first chapiter the somme wherof standeth vpō this poinct that Heresie and Lecherie be commonly ioigned together whiche saiyng he proueth none otherwise true then that the first maried priestes in some countries were heretiques and by certaine notes c. And like as it is a shame for hym in suche a weightie matter to make suche a balde reason though his groūdes were true so his groundes beyng vntrue his rebuke is encreased For who knoweth not that S. Peter was a priest and the Gospell testifieth that he had a wife The Euangelistes saie that Christe healed Peters wiues mother of a Feuer Math. viii Luke iiii And Clemens Alexandrinus testifieth that he did not putte her awaie but continued with her till she died in Martyrdome for Christes sake Stromaton Lib. 7. Clemens Alex. whiche Marten denieth And the same Clement saieth that Peter spake to her when she was in diyng saiyng to her Vxor memento domini wife remember the Lorde And that this is true saincte Hierome against Iouinian can not deny And I am sure that Martin will not deny but that Peter dwelt .xxv. yeres at Rome for so you Papistes hold Now if it were true that the firste maried prieste in Italie as Martine doeth alledge for the proofe of his purpose were an heretique then by this meanes should Peter be an heretique vnlesse the manne will saie that Rome is not in Italie For that it was not Heluidius it shal bee reasoned hereafter Martine can not proue that the firste maried prieste in France was an heretique by Turonense consilium as he alledgeth To. 2. pag. ● And for further profe of this purpose he saith also that the firste maried prieste in Fraunce was an heretique whiche saiyng

Doue vseth not this she lyueth of the frute of the earth her feedyng is without hurte And that Churche saieth sainct Hierome is to be counted the catholyke Churche whiche by the helpe of Gods grace wandereth not from the path and trade of the Apostles traditions Againe he saieth ●4 q. 3. Trāsferunt principes inde terminos quos posuerunt patres eorum quando immutant mendatio veritatem aliud predicant quam ab Apostolis acceperunt c. The heade men and rulers doe remoue the markes and dooles whiche their auncetours haue laied when thei chaunge the truthe into lyes and preache other thinges then suche as thei haue receiued of the Apostles Therefore if the Churche of Englande can declare her self to pr●ceade nigher the rules of the Apostles then that Chur●he whiche of duetie chalengeth the onely name it must bee preferred before that priuate Catholike congregation as this aucthour bringeth in twoo aucthorities Cap. ● lrā f. 1. Panorm ●ignifi de elect Dist. 31. ●●ena of Ireneus and Origen for his purpose whiche subuerteth all his pretence Yea thei confesse the Lawes them selues that one laye man hauyng scripture or a reasonable cause is more to bee receiued then a whole Uniuersitée together without the same For the Churche is not so builded vpō Peters person or yet vpon his See but vpon that sure confession whiche came from hym that article of the faithe whiche he confessed thou art Christe the soonne of the liuyng God so that Christe builded his Churche Distinc. 19. Ita dominus vpon hym self saieth the Canonistes them selues This aucthour cometh all to late therefore what poste haste so euer he make or how so euer he vse to blinde this age with Romishe articles of their faithe saiyng The Churche of Rome can not erre though thei remoue the markes of the Apostles preceptes And that it muste bee euer presumed that the Pope is all holie and maie not bee iudged and can not erre that his saiynges are of equall aucthoritie with Christes doctrine and his deedes must be interpreted Distinc. 40. N● 〈◊〉 as the murther of Samson and the felonie of the Iewes and as the adulterie of Iacob For it were a kinde of Sacrilege to call his facte into disputation with infinite more suche articles as be euery where in his decrees and Canonistes writynges But yet I thinke this aucthour vrge still vpon me for the diuersitie of Priestes mariyng before order and after order and will require what Counsaile what Canon what example I can alledge that a priest euer maried To make shorte answere till we come to particular debatement of these causes as thei bée sundrie in nature so ought thei to bee sonderlie entreated and not craftely mixte and chopte in together to blinde the vnlearned reader Firste I aunswere with the woordes of a Catholike writer in a like cause Quid si destituamur exemplo hominum si habeamus praeceptum dei What maketh matter though wee had no example of man if we haue a precepte of God and a confession of his Apostle lefte yet saffe vnto vs as Alfonsus Episcopus Canariensis saieth yea after our orders and promise whatsoeuer it bee Secondly I saie that by dispensations of the Busshoppes of Roome diuerse and many haue as well maried after orders as after priuate vowes and solempne vowes to as shall be aduouched good store of suche examples out of authentike stories some examples of others that maried after their order without dispensation and not thought to bee the lesse Catholike for it Thirdlie I can alledge to this Englishe writer twoo Englishe actes of Parliament so assented vnto by the subscription of the whole Clergie by the whole body of the Imperiall state of the realme whiche I will here after proue to bee of as good value and aucthoritie for the defence of their mariages whiche were made by theim as a greate sorte of his Synodes and generall Counsailes to that he reporteth in his Booke so thicke in euery leaffe as though scripture were vtterly to bee layed a side to geue them roume And I maruell muche what this writer meaneth beyng an Englishe man and offereth his seruice so ready to the Queenes maiestis that can enuie the crowne of Englande of that prerogatiue that is by Goddes woorde incident therevnto beyng so ofte proued and confessed yea and sworne vnto by the whole Realme and so muche stablished by the learned assertions sermons orations and other writynges of the aunciente Fathers and moste catholike men that be at this daie knowen and had in reuerence and aucthoritie for their greate wittes learnyng and grauitie of life by the space of twentie yeres perpetually inculked whiche now to call againe into question maie entāgle many a good mannes conscience in the Realme who were moste chiefly induced by them bothe to swere yea and to ieoperd their soules therein and many be departed in the same belief already Moreouer I would wishe this professour of Ciuill to consider or at the least the gentle reader to note with what charitée he could so slaunder his owne countrie men the Queenes subiectes to her grace in his Preface with so odious accusations of inceste heresie coueteousnesse and because he would leaue nothyng behinde to promote them to the Queenes graces credēce with treason also and malice to her grace and that without exceptiō of any one man entred into the said state of mariage who as thei bee many so had thei diuerse respectes in their doynges and haue at this daie diuerse cogitations in their hartes And though he could charge some or many with the saied crimes as God be thanken I thinke his owne conscience telleth hym that his penne lied and as I truste is not the suspition of a great many of as good hartes to the Queenes highnesse as he Thrasonically bloweth out in his Booke to beare her yet he eccepteth none but vniuersally and singularly charge●h all in assertion solempnely pronounced with no further proofe but ipse dixit And where was his remembraunce to ieoparde the fame of many other of the same coote whom I am suer he fauoureth well enough notyng Heresie and Lecherie so ioyntly to bée knit together that wher the one is their is the other as sisters inseparable So that by this mans assertion beyng one of the principall and first articles wherevpon he growndeth all the buyldyng of his booke wee muste nedes beleue that where vnchaste lyfe is there is Heresie couertly couered Lette hym consider if this principle bée resolued whyther and howe farre the worlde can soone iudge it goeth In verie deede his assertion hath some grounde of aucthoritie beside that he bryngeth in of Simon magus out of Epiphanius For Chrysostome writing vpon the first to Tymothe the .4 of suche as shall depart not from the Bushop I saie but from the faieth geuyng hede to the spirites of erroure c. Hic loquitur saieth he de Manichaeis Encratitis Marcionitis

the reading and looking ouer all sainct Hieroms woorkes and Isodore beside and many other old writers also yea the Spanish Libraries too if we should seke whither he may seme to send vs. But here peraduenture this graue Ciuilian will be offended with suche my woordes and interprete my saiynges to bee scoffes and not weightie argumentes and that he will quarell that it is talke suche as menne spende for pastime rather then deliberate debatement of so weightie a cause In deede to cōfesse a trueth When I had considered the odious and impudent countenaunce of his preface the swingyng taile of his lamentable conclusion the mōstrous bodie betwixt bothe and then againe meruelyng where and how he had gotten so muche matter and pregnauncie of witte farre aboue that which I loked would haue been in hym by this daie by the gesse of the talke that I had last with him consideryng that he doeth somwhat more then scoffe or boorde in diuerse partes of his boke as if I should so beastly scoffe with the serious reuerēt articles of our faith drawyng them to such an obscéen and filthie sense as he doth raile in his .ix. Chapiter of Carnis resurrectionem vitam eternam Uerely if he called me Pighius or Pogius or Porphyrius or Iulianus he might well doe it And then consideryng hym to bee a yonge man and a Ciuilian I could not refraine my penne but thus sportyngly to bee a Comentar of his booke And yet sir to alledge a Poetes aucthoritie to a Ciuilian whose worde hath yet no greate aucthoritie Ridentèm dicere verum quis vetat hae nugae seria ducunt A wiser man then we bothe be maie some tyme ride on a long réede yet keepe grauitée of countenaunce when he cometh where grauitée should bee shewed as some haue doen here in Englande before now in as serious matters as these bee by open writinges wherewith I dare sweare not all of the Clergie hath been muche offended hetherto And if ye will learne how tollerable it is in writyng ye maie resort to sir Thomas Moores first Chapiter of his Dialogue of ꝙ I and ꝙ he and he will proue it vnto you I am sure your selfe as hye as ye now caste vp your head will come lower some tyme when ye be pleased and that ye repent ye not of your own merie scoffyng in many partes of your booke whiche bee sometyme not merie bourdes but sharpe checkes and daungerous tauntes to Uerely M. Martin the discoloured insolencie of your booke put me in remembraunce of some Poetrie Scribimus indocti doctique poemata passim Semper ego auditor tantum nunquam ne reponam c Whiche drewe my penne whether I would or no as before this daie it neuer was occupied for any printed ware to bungle with you But yet for the truthe of all that I saie if ye finde any thyng misreported and not truly aduouchyng myne aucthorities I desire you to tell it in your nexte booke as sharpely as ye can And if ye will beare with me for my mirthe nowe as I beare with yours whiche I do interprete that ye vsed it to solace your self to holde the reader of your booke from wearinesse to medle some softer musike emong the dint and dinne of your terrible greate Canons shotyng nothyng but haile shotte all the tyme of your stoute debellation of this your wonne fortresse where in no man was to resiste you and that is a valiaunt conquest who can saie nay I will so rule my penne in my next booke if almightie God will so haue it that ye shall I truste perceiue your self grauely answered And not so muche you but all others graue writers and deuines in déede by profession of whō in parte you stole your booke that this matter shall not so obscurely be strangeled vp but that it shall shewe bothe life and light And yet good reader I desire thee impute not this to any arrogancie as though I would aduaunce my self so high of myne owne poore readyng and vnderstandyng but the graue and verie Catholike writers in the first beginnyng of the churche shall be my warrant not as aucthours and iudgers of the scriptures but as good faithfull witnesses in their confessions of the same So that I trust the harmony shall not mislike indifferent men though I hit not all my purpose But now againe further to shewe your dexteritee master Martin in aduouching your allegations ye tel vs very pretely how in the Librarie of Magdalen College at Oxforde there is an olde booke written of Ignatius wherein is not expressed that Paule is named for a maried mā to haue had a wife although the Heretikes of Germanie haue corrupted hym in the printed copies ꝙ you If ye be asked who tolde you so we maie knowe that master doctor Smithe in his wise booke written against Priestes Mariages hath reported so and many good studentes and worshipfull menne that hath been felowes in that College can tell saie ye that thei haue had a written copie of Ignatius Sin this maie be true ▪ and yet you may lye to say that Paules name is not there ▪ But now good reader leste yet thou shouldest take vpon thee to iourney so far thether to seeke and finde hym how true he is in his tale he discourageth thee of goyng thether for he telleth thee euen there that parhaps some brother of late yeres hath stolen the booke awaie out of the Librarie and loe thus thou mightest lose thy labour And therefore searche no further neither spende any labour to trye hym but simply trust all that he telleth thee Is not this a proper allegation thinke ye and well handled But yet ye must beleue that ye see not with your eyes for Beati qui non viderunt crediderunt blessed are thei that haue beleued though thei neuer sawe it Yea ye must thinke that he reporteth all thinges vprightly in all his allegations specially in Lawe Ciuile and Canon wherein he is moste skilled in stories wherein he is so depely traueled and in expoundyng of scriptures wherein he is wonderfull as he handeleth sainct Paules place to Timothe te ipsum castum custodi kepe thy self chast so purely with suche integritee that Lyranus Hugo Cardinalis as greate bunglers as thei be thought to be of some but yet be worthie the praise be ashamed so to expoūde the places there But yet he setteth suche an earnest glose of his owne head that ye would thinke he must needes bée of hym self an incomparable deuine and exactly seen in the Greke tongue in the Greke commentaries and schoolies as ye know by the exposition of Nazareus He is throughly well seen in the Hebrue tongue vnderstandyng all the Rabines rites and customes to the vttermoste In Rhetorike he is incomparable throughout all his booke As if ye liste to haue the sight but of one proofe looke in the beginnyng where he confuteth doctor Ponettes boke Cap. xi littera ●i● b. whiche