The suruey of popery vvherein the reader may cleerely behold, not onely the originall and daily incrementes of papistrie, with an euident confutation of the same; but also a succinct and profitable enarration of the state of Gods Church from Adam vntill Christs ascension, contained in the first and second part thereof: and throughout the third part poperie is turned vp-side downe.

The sixt building.

All secular Priests are so free from the solemne vow, annex∣ed by the church of Rome to ecclesiasticall orders, as their mar∣riage is perfect and of force, notwithstanding the supposed dis∣soluing impediment thereof. I proue it first, because Scotus, Nauarre, Iosephus Angles and others doe grant, that this vow is onely annexed by the ordinance of the church, as shall [ 1] appeare more at large in the ende of this chapter.

I prooue it secondly, because if the secular priests ••••e vo∣taries, their vowe must either be by the worde spoken, or by the deede done: not the first,* 1.1 because no such word can be pro∣ued; [ 2] neither the second, because if the art it selfe in taking or∣ders, shoulde be the vowe annexed; it would follow thereupon

necessarily, that the Greekes likewise should become votaries, as who doe the selfe same thing. Who for all that were neuer votaries, as Gratianus, Syluester, and other popish doctours do affirme. I proue it thirdly, because when two things are essentially and really distinguished, the grant of the one doth necessarily include the graunt of the other: and yet is the so∣lemne vow of chastitie,* 1.2 essentially and really distinct from sa∣cred orders; as I haue proued out of Iosephus in the fourth building, and as is apparant by Nauarre in his Enchiridion. Gratian their owne doctour maketh this case cleere: see his as∣sertion in the next chapter, in the answere to the first obiection.

Notes

• * 1.1

  This dilemma catcheth the Pope by the nose.
• * 1.2

  Nauar. in e••chir. cap. 22. §. 18.