M. Hardinge.
It was not for your pourpose, Sirs, to vse true dealinge, and to alleage the woordes as they are in that olde Councel. For they speake of an* 1.1 external Sacrifice,‡ 1.2 whiche the Churche calleth the Masse. The same it behoued you to dissemble,* 1.3 leste ye bewraied your cause. The woordes be these: If any man make a difference of a Prieste, who hath benne married, is though when he sacrificeth, a man might not communicate with his oblation, be he accursed. Those fathers speake euidently of a Prieste, who hath sometime ben maried, that is to saie, before his Priesthode.* 1.4 For after Priesthode, it was neuer bearde sithens the time of Christe, that any Prieste might marie by the Lawe either of the Greeke, or of the Latine Churche. VVe therefore condemne the mariages of Priestes, whiche be made after the ta∣kinge of holy orders, and saie, that he is no good and honeste man, but an incestuous Aduouterer, that marieth afterwarde.