Marriage and the church (Aeneas Silvius, Plat. De Vit. Pont; 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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   Touching that pope Pius was commonly wont to say, "As marriage was taken away from priests upon great considerations, even so now upon other greater considerations it were to be restored to them again4;" [...]

   [4 Plat. De Vit. Pont. Col. 1551. Pius II. p. 295.]

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. 424.

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