CHAP. XXIII.
That Mariage was granted by the ancient Fathers, ev'n after the vow of single life.
SOme will say perhaps, whersore all this concerning mariage after vow of single life, when as the question was of mariage after di∣vorse? For this reason, that they whom it so much moves, because some of the Fathers thought mariage after any kind of divorce, to be condemn'd of our Saviour, may see that this conclusion follows not. The Fathers thought all mariage after divorce to be forbidd'n of our Saviour, therfore they thought such mariage was not to be tolerated in a Christian. For the same Fathers judg'd it forbidd'n to marry after vow; yet such mariages they neither dissolv'd nor excommunicated. For these words of our Saviour, and of the holy Ghost, stood in their way; All cannot receav this saying, but they to whom it is giv'n. Every one