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A treatise tending unto a declaration whether a man be in the estate of…A treatise tending vnto a declaration whether a man be in the estate of…
A treatise tending unto a declaration whether a man be in the estate of damnation or in the estate of grace and if he be in the first, how he may in time come out of it: if in the second, how he may discern it, and persevere in the same to the end. The points that are handled are set down in the page following.A treatise tending vnto a declaration whether a man be in the estate of damnation or in the estate of grace and if he be in the first, how he may in time come out of it: if in the second, how he maie discerne it, and perseuere in the same to the end. The points that are handled are set downe in the page following.
London: printed by R. Robinson for T. Gubbin, 1590
The Assertion. › Argument 3 › The proof.The Assertion. › Argument 3 › The proofe.
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The seventh commandment is re•ealed diverse ways. First in that they ⟨p. 222⟩maintain the occasions of adultery and fornication: namely, the vow of single life both in men and women, when as they have not received the gift from God to be continent: which gift when they want, & yet are bound to single life, they must needs break out into much looseness. This sin1 made Mantuan, Palingenius, and Petrarch to cry out against the Church of Rome. Again some Papists defend the toleration of the Stews in Rome, for the avoiding of greater evils. And in the Council of Trent chastity and Priests marriage are2 made opposite, so that marriage with them is a filthy thing, although God hath ordained it for the avoiding of fornication in all. Furthermore that which is most abominable and proves the Church of Rome to be an Antichristian Church: they maintain marriages within the degrees forbidden both by the law of nature, and of gods word. For in the table of consanguinity they which are placed in the transverse unequal line cannot marry, because they are as Parents and children: yet if they be distant four degrees on divers sides from the common stock they may marry together by the Cannon law. As for example, ⟨p. 223⟩the grand uncle may marry his Sisters3 nephews niece, a thing very filthy in nature considering that a man cannot marry with any honesty his sisters child. To go further, by gods word they which are distant 4. degrees in the transverse equal line may marry together, as Cousin germans. Thus the daughters of Zelophehad were married4 to their fathers brothers sons: this example I take it is warrant of the lawfulness of this marriage else where: Yet the Cannon law condemns this marriage of Cousin germans, and the marriage of their children after them though they be eight degrees distant. Thus the Church of Rome doth overthwart the Lord: where he gives liberty they restrain it, and when he restraineth men, then they give liberty.