A67927:5850
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 2] 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 2] 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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Chich, How prove you that?
Chich, How prooue you that?
Wood. I will prove it well enough by Gods help. But yet I will prove that Paul might have had a wife, as well as the other Apostles had.
Wood. I will prooue it well enough by Gods helpe. But yet I will prooue that Paul might haue had a wife, as wel as the other Apostles had.
Chich. Why, had the Apostles wives?
Chich. Why, had the Apostles wyues?
Wood. Yea, all, saving Paul and Barnabas, as I understand it.1 For these are Pauls words in the 1. to the Cor. 9. chap. Am I not an Apostle? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus Christ? Are not ye my work in the Lord? And if I be not an Apostle to other, yet to you I am an Apostle For you are the seal of my Apostleship in the Lord. Mine answer to them that ask me, is this: Have we not power to eat and to drink? either have we not power to lead about a sister to wife, as well as the other Apostles have, and as the brethren of the Lord? Either have not Barnabas and I power thus to do? So this text proveth, that Paul & Barnabas were unmarried. But Paul declareth that the rest had wives, & that they had power likewise so to have, but they found no need thereof. But Paul declareth in the 7. chap. of the 1. epistle to the Corin. that he that hath no power over his own flesh, may marry: For it is better to marry then to burn. Wherefore, to avoid fornication (sayeth he) let every man have his wife.