An apologie for Iohn Wickliffe shewing his conformitie with the now Church of England; with answere to such slaunderous obiections, as haue beene lately vrged against him by Father Parsons, the apologists, and others. Collected chiefly out of diuerse works of his in written hand, by Gods especiall providence remaining in the publike library at Oxford, of the honorable foundation of Sr. Thomas Bodley Knight: by Thomas James keeper of the same.
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An apologie for Iohn Wickliffe shewing his conformitie with the now Church of England; with answere to such slaunderous obiections, as haue beene lately vrged against him by Father Parsons, the apologists, and others. Collected chiefly out of diuerse works of his in written hand, by Gods especiall providence remaining in the publike library at Oxford, of the honorable foundation of Sr. Thomas Bodley Knight: by Thomas James keeper of the same.
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James, Thomas, 1573?-1629.
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At Oxford :: Printed by Joseph Barnes, printer to the Vniversitie,
1608.
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"An apologie for Iohn Wickliffe shewing his conformitie with the now Church of England; with answere to such slaunderous obiections, as haue beene lately vrged against him by Father Parsons, the apologists, and others. Collected chiefly out of diuerse works of his in written hand, by Gods especiall providence remaining in the publike library at Oxford, of the honorable foundation of Sr. Thomas Bodley Knight: by Thomas James keeper of the same." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A04328.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 15, 2024.
TOuching Matrimonie, thus stood the case in his time, the Priests were vnmarried: but neuerthe∣lesse, he held that the rBishops and Priests of both the Primitiue and East-Churches were married, & that he saw no cause, why the Priestes of the Latin Church fshould be forbidden marriage; that the forbidding of it, caused many tto liue lust full life and easie, and fall in∣to sin against kind••; that who so forbids it, uis enemie of God, Saints in Heaven, and al mankinde: because uutrue chastitie, is as wel to be found in wedlock, as otherwise; and this is our verie tenet.
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In Primitiua Ecclesia ordi∣nati sunt con∣iugati Epis∣copi. De Ver. Ser. pag. 370. Orietales Sa∣cerdotes vxo∣rati. lb p. 406, et in Expos. Decal. p. 116. Oftendit quo modo Sacer∣dotes possint effe vxorati. De Ver. Scrip. pag 407. & lb. Miscell. pag. 63.