A67922:1594
Acts and monuments of matters most special and memorable, happening in the Church. [vol.…Actes and monuments of matters most speciall and memorable, happenyng in the Church. [vol.…
Acts and monuments of matters most special and memorable, happening in the Church. [vol. 1] with an universal history of the same, wherein is set forth at large the whole race and course of the Church, from the primitive age to these latter times of ours, with the bloody times, horrible troubles, and great persecutions against the true martyrs of Christ, sought and wrought as well by heathen emperors, as now lately practised by Romish prelates, especially in this realm of England and Scotland. Newly revised and recognised, partly also augmented, and now the fourth time again published and recommended to the studious reader, by the author (through the help of Christ our Lord) John Fox, which desireth thee good reader to help him with thy prayer.Actes and monuments of matters most speciall and memorable, happenyng in the Church. [vol. 1] with an vniuersall history of the same, wherein is set forth at large the whole race and course of the Church, from the primitiue age to these latter tymes of ours, with the bloudy times, horrible troubles, and great persecutions agaynst the true martyrs of Christ, sought and wrought as well by heathen emperours, as nowe lately practised by Romish prelates, especially in this realme of England and Scotland. Newly reuised and recognised, partly also augmented, and now the fourth time agayne published and recommended to the studious reader, by the author (through the helpe of Christ our Lord) Iohn Foxe, which desireth thee good reader to helpe him with thy prayer.
London: printed by John Daye, 1583London: printed by Iohn Daye, 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.
The answer.
The aunswere.
A certain terrene law amongst the old Romans doth permit, that either brother or sister, or the son & daughter of two brethren may marry together.1 But by experience we learn, that the issue of such marriage doth never thrive, nor come forward. Also the holy law of God forbiddeth to reveal the turpitude of thy blood or kindred.
A certaine terrene law amongst the old Romaines doth permit, that either brother or sister, or the sonne & daughter of two brethren may marry together.1 But by experyence we learne, that the issue of such mariage doth neuer thryue, nor come forewarde. Also ye holye law of God forbiddeth to reueale the turpitude of thy bloude or kindred.
- 1The answer. In what degree of kindred a man may marry.The aunswere. In what degree of kindred a man may marry.
Wherefore necessary it is, that in the third or fourth degree the faithful may lawfully marry, for in the second as being unlawful, they must needs refrain. To be coupled with the stepmother is utterly abominable, for it is written in the law. Thou shalt not reveal the turpitude of thy Father. Forsomuch then as it is so written in the law and they shall be two in one flesh: the son then that presumeth to reveal then the turpitude of his stepmother, which is one flesh with his Father, what doth he then but reveal the turpitude of his own father.