History of Sacerdotal Celibacy in the Christian Church, Volume 2

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Macmillan, 1907
 

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Page 140 - Bishops, Priests, and Deacons, are not -commanded by God's Law, either to vow the estate of single life, or to abstain from marriage : Therefore it is lawful for them, as for all other Christian men, to marry at their own discretion, as they shall judge the same to serve better to godliness.
Page 165 - Grey-Friers was a place so well provided that unlesse honest men had seen the same, we would have feared to have reported what provision they had...
Page 139 - ... that no manner of priest or deacon shall hereafter take to his wife any manner of woman without the advice and allowance first had upon good examination by the bishop of the same diocese, and two justices of the peace of the same shire...
Page 107 - Judgment, as you shall think able for that purpose, and one whom in manner you dare answer for. Finally ; Whereas we be advertised that divers Priests have presumed to marry themselves, contrary to the custom of our Church of England, Our Pleasure is, Ye shall make secret enquiry within your...
Page 139 - And before he shall be contracted in any place, he shall make a good and certain proof thereof to the minister, or to the congregation assembled for that purpose, which shall be upon some holy day, where divers may be present.
Page 111 - VIII. cap. 14.] commonly known by the name of the bloody statute, or the statute of the six articles ; it was entitled, An act for abolishing Diversity of Opinions in certain Articles concerning Christian Religion.
Page 143 - ill affected to the state of matrimony in the Clergy. And " if I were not therein very stiff, her Majesty would utterly " and openly condemn and forbid it. In the end, for her " satisfaction, this injunction now sent to your Grace is de
Page 92 - Forasmuch as manifest sin, vicious, carnal, and abominable living, is daily used and committed commonly in such little and small abbeys, priories, and other religious Houses of monks, canons, and nuns, where the congregation of such religious persons is under the number of twelve persons, whereby the governors of such religious Houses and their convent, spoil, destroy, consume, and utterly waste...
Page 91 - Yea, and what do they more? Truly nothing but apply themselves, by all the sleights they may, to have to do with every man's wife, every man's daughter, and every man's maid, that cuckoldry and bawdry should reign over all among your subjects, that no man should know his own child...
Page 141 - ... that it was good for the church to have few preachers, that three or four might suffice for a county, and that the reading of the Homilies to the people was sufficient.

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