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Certain sermons preached before the Queens Majesty, and at Pauls crossCertaine sermons preached before the Queenes Maiestie, and at Paules crosse
Certain sermons preached before the Queens Majesty, and at Pauls cross, by the reverend father John Jewel late Bishop of Salisbury. Whereunto is added a short treatise of the sacraments, gathered out of other his sermons, made upon that matter, in his cathedral church at SalisburyCertaine sermons preached before the Queenes Maiestie, and at Paules crosse, by the reuerend father Iohn Ievvel late Bishop of Salisburie. Whereunto is added a short treatise of the sacraments, gathered out of other his sermons, made vpon that matter, in his cathedrall church at Salisburie
London: printed by Christopher Barker, 1583
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
What are they then that call marriage uncleanness, filthiness, a work of the flesh? that say it defileth a man, & therefore Gods ministers may not be married? How can they thus speak that have any knowledge of that which God hath spoken? May we not worthily say unto such despisers of lawful matrimony, that which S. Bernard 1in like case said? Fingunt see amore castitatis ista dicere, cum ea magis causa turpitudinis fovendae, & multiplicandae adinuenerint. They Bear us in hand that they speak these things for love of chastity: where as in deed they have devised the same, to the end to nourish, & to increase their filthiness. Or, as Augustine sometime said 2to ye Manichees, Non concubitum, sed ut ab Apostolo longe antè dictum est, vere nuptias prohibetis. Ye forbid not copulation: but as it was long ago forespoken by the Apostle, in deed ye ⟨image 174⟩forbid very marriage. If you mark these few words which I delivered, it will easily appear, how reverent an account is to be made of that state of life. For if you regard the necessity thereof, God found it good to give man a wife: if the antiquity, it was ordained in the beginning of the world: if the place, in Paradise: if the time, in the innocency of man. If you regard any thing the rather, because of him that ordained it, God was the author of marriage: even God which made heaven, and earth, and which is the father of our Lord Jesus Christ. If you seek the allowance, Christ approved it by his birth in marriage, and by his presence at marriage: if the dignity, it is honourable: if among whom, in all men of all estates, of all callings: in Prince, in subject, in minister, in Priest, and in people. It is honourable in Prophets, honourable in Apostles, in Martyrs, in Bishops.
What are they then that call mariage vncleanes, filthines, a worke of the flesh? that say it defileth a man, & therefore Gods ministers may not be maried? How can they thus speake that haue any knowledge of yt which God hath spoken? May we not worthily say vnto such despisers of lawfull matrimonie, yt which S. Bernard 1in like case said? Fingunt se amore castitatis ista dicere, cum ea magis causa turpitudinis fouendae, & multiplicandae adinuenerint. They Beare vs in hande that they speake these things for loue of chastitie: where as in deede they haue deuised the same, to the ende to nourish, & to increse their filthines. Or, as Augustine sometime said