Marriage and the church (Aeneas Silvius, Plat. De Vit. Pont (again); 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." [...]

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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