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The whole works of W. Tyndall, John Frith, and Doct. Barnes, three worthy martyrs,…The vvhole workes of W. Tyndall, Iohn Frith, and Doct. Barnes, three worthy martyrs,…
The whole works of W. Tyndall, John Frith, and Doct. Barnes, three worthy martyrs, and principal teachers of this Church of England collected and compiled in one tome together, being before scattered, [and] now in print here exhibited to the Church. To the praise of God, and profit of all good Christian readers.The vvhole workes of W. Tyndall, Iohn Frith, and Doct. Barnes, three worthy martyrs, and principall teachers of this Churche of England collected and compiled in one tome togither, beyng before scattered, [and] now in print here exhibited to the Church. To the prayse of God, and profite of all good Christian readers.
London: printed by John Daye, 1573London: printed by Iohn Daye, 1573
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.
These men must first consider what doctrine they defend, that is to say, how they intend to defend the popes doctrine, and yt doctrine, which they call the doctrine of the church: for there is none other doctrine against us but that.
These mē must first consider what doctrine they defend, yt is to say, how they intēde to defēd ye popes doctrine, and yt doctrine, which they call the doctrine of the church: for there is none other doctrine agaynst vs but that.
Now doth this doctrine clearly deterne against them, and say how 1no man that hath a wife, may be chosen to be Priest or a Deacon, neither they can bring me one example, that ever the Pope did grant, that a married man might be a priest except he got money for dispensing. So that the Pope by his dispensation hath always testified that it was against his law for 2a married man to be a Priest. Wherefore these men (if they will defend the laws of the Church) must be bound to prove that married men may after the laws of the Church (as they call them) be chosen, or else their answer is naught. For it is no reason that they should feign this solution of their own brains, and say, that it may be so. But they must prove me, that their church doth grant it lawful so to be. Moreover, where be now all their Scriptures, whereby they prove that Priests may not marry for defiling of them? Is not the company that a Priest keepeth with his 3wife after his consecration (which they grant) as pure, and as clean, as it was before his consecration? Hath his consecration made yt thing unclean, that was before pure? Wherefore if he may keep his wife (after these men) which he married before his consecration, why may not an other Priest likewise marry a wife after his Priesthood. What doth this man, as concerning the office of matrimony, that the other man doth not?