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If the greate workeman of thynges god almightie himselfe after the floud being reconciled to man made this law (as we reade in scriptures) that men shulde not liue single, but encrease and be multiplied, that the yearth might be filled: and seyng also that Christe him∣selfe sence that time hath allowed ma∣riage by a miracle of chaungyng water into wine, which miracle was the first that he dyd vpon yearth: and seynge Paule also biddeth euery man that cā∣not liue chaste, to marie, and that it is better to marye, then to burne in fil∣thie desires, and besides this willeth a bishop should be the husbande of one wife: it muste nedes be that preachers may lawful marye, aswel as any other temporal men.