Marriage and the church (Aeneas Silvius, Id. ad Joan. Frunt Epist.; Jewel; Parker Society, ed., The works of John Jewel, 1848, 3rd portion)

Text: "Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women..." Daniel 11:37 "Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; Forbidding to marry..." 1 Timothy 4:1-3

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   These, these, M. Harding, were the causes that moved pope Pius commonly to say, as it is before alleged: "As marriage upon good and great considerations was taken from priests, so now upon better and greater considerations it were to be restored to them again." And therefore he saith in his discourse of the council of Basil: [...] "Perhaps it were not worst that many priests were married. For many might be saved in married priesthood which now in barren priesthood are condemned." If the former of these two sayings be so doubtful, yet this latter is plain, and clear, and void of doubt. In like sense and sort he writeth upon good advice and deliberation to his friend: Quoniam huc ventum est, ut legi carnis resistere nequeas, melius est nubere quam uri22: "Forasmuch as the matter is grown so far that ye cannot withstand the law of the flesh, better it is23 to marry than to burn."

   [22 Id. ad Joan. Frunt Epist. cccvii. p. 809; where quando huc.]

   [23 Better is, 1570.]

Jewel, John; Parker Society (Great Britain), ed., The works of John Jewel, Bishop of Salisbury, Cambridge, Eng.: Printed at the University Press, 1848, 3rd portion: Apologia Ecclesiae Anglicanae. An Apology of the Church of England. The Defence of the Apology, Parts I—III, p. 427.

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