A67926:3294
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. 2, part 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. 2, part 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
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¶In the xxxij. where you ask, whether a Priest marrying a wife, & that without the dispensation of the Pope, & begetting also children of her without slander giving,1 do sin deadly? I say, that he doth not so much offend, as those, which in Wales (as I have heard say) and also in many parts beyond the Sea, or rather in all places, do give openly dispensations for money, to Priests to take concubines: neither doth he offend so much, as the purchasers of such dispensations: for they on every hand, do clearly commit fornication and adultery, utterly forfended by Gods law, and the Priest, of whom speaketh your demand, offendeth but mans law, if he do that. For in the Decrees it is written, I ween it be in a gloss, and certainly I wot not whether it be in the text or no,2 I can lightly turn to it having a book. The sentence is thus: Presbyter fornicans est plus puniend us quàm uxorem ducens. That is to say, a priest doing fornication, ought to be punished more, than one which hath married a wife. Finally I think such a priest as before is named in your demand, sinneth not deadly.
¶In the xxxij. where you aske, whether a Priest marying a wife, & that without the dispensation of the Pope, & begetting also children of her without slaunder giuing,1 do sinne deadly? I say, that he doth not so much offende, as those, which in Wales (as I haue heard say) and also in many partes beyōd the Sea, or rather in all places, do giue openly dispensations for money, to Priestes to take concubines: neither doth he offende so much, as the purchasers of such dispensations: for they on euery hand, do clearly cō mit fornication and aduoutry, vtterly forefended by Gods law, and the Priest, of whom speaketh your demaund, offendeth but mans law, if he do that. For in the Decrees it is written, I weene it be in a glose, and certainely I wote not whether it be in the text or no,2 I can lightly turn to it hauing a booke. The sentence is thus: Presbyter fornicans est plus puniend us quàm vxorem ducens. That is to say, a priest doing fornicatiō, ought to be punished more, thē one which hath married a wife. Finally I thinke such a priest as before is named in your demaunde, sinneth not deadly.