Collectanea. Out of St. Gregory the Great, and St. Bernard the devout, against the Papists who adhere to the doctrine of the present Church of Rome, in the most fundamentall points betweene them and vs.

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Title: Collectanea. Out of St. Gregory the Great, and St. Bernard the devout, against the Papists who adhere to the doctrine of the present Church of Rome, in the most fundamentall points betweene them and vs.
Author: Panke, John.
Publication: At Oxford :: Printed by Iohn Lichfield, and Iames Short, printers to the famous Vniversitie,; 1618.
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Subject terms: Gregory, -- I, -- Pope, -- ca. 540-604.; Bernard, -- of Clairvaux, Saint, -- 1090 or 91-1153.; Catholic Church -- Controversial literature -- Early works to 1800.
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Touching the lawfulnesse of mariages in Ministers where the gift of continency is not giuen.

Ʋtinam qui continere non valent, perfe∣ctionem temerariè profiteri,* 1.1 aut coelebatui dare nomina verentur. Would to God that

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those that cannot containe would stand in awe to professe single life: for doubtles it were much better to marry then to burne. But there are many, and so many, that they cannot bee hid for multitude, & for impudency do not seeke it, who vse their libertie, as an occasion to the flesh, abstaining from marriage, and flowing from thence into all manner of filthines, fornication, adulteries, incests, Sodome∣try, and that which filthy Sodome never knew.

And touching those that haue vowed a right vow (suppose chastitie) and finde they cannot containe, or performe it, the bond is not absolute, but of conditionall necessitie. Ego non arbitror minora vota impedire maiora,* 1.2 nec Deum exigère quod∣cun{que} bonum sibi promissum, si pro ea meli∣us aliquod persolutum. I doe not thinke (saith he) that lesser vowes can hinder the greater, neither that God doth require, every good that is promised him, if for those any thing better shallbee paid him, &c. In turpi voto muta decretum,* 1.3 In a filthy vow, change thy minde.

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Againe.* 1.4 Tolle de Ecclesia honorabile cō∣nubium, & thorum immaculatum: nonne reples eam concubinarijs, incestuosis, simi∣nifluis, mollibus, masculorum concubitori∣bus, & omni deni{que} genere immundorum? Take from the Church honorable marri∣age, & the vndefiled bed; and doest thou not fill it with keepers of concubines, in∣cestuous persons, seed-loosers, & all man∣ner of vncleane persons.

Notes

* 1.1

Deconvers. ad Cleric. serm. 29.

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* 1.2

Epist. 47.

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* 1.3

Lib. 5. ad so∣rorem.

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* 1.4

In Cant. serm. 66.

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