A treatise of the cohabitacyon of the faithfull with the vnfaithfull.: Whereunto is added. A sermon made of the confessing of Christe and his gospell, and of the denyinge of the same.Vermigli, Pietro Martire
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A treatise of the cohabitacyon of the faithfull with the vnfaithfull.: Whereunto is added. A sermon made of the confessing of Christe and his gospell, and of the denyinge of the same.
Vermigli, Pietro Martire
Catholic Church -- Controversial literature -- Early works to 1800
Nowe this is remayning / that I sholde answer vnto those reasons
which were put forthe at the begynning to proue that the
dwelling together of the faithfull with the vnfaithfull is
lawfull / and confute them. Firste / the example of Christ is
set against vs / which dyd eate and drinke familiarlye with
scribes / pharisees / publicanes / and synners. We muste
remembre that Christe was not only stronge / but the chiefe
heade of all them shich be stronge. He coulde so profyte them
which were euell / that theyr euill shuld not hurte him / and
therfore might vse familiaritie with the wicked. Euen so there
is no cause to the contrarie / but that they whiche be learned
and constante in the truthe / suche as can profit the
vnfaithfull by their cõuersation and familiar being with them /
and not be hurt by it them selues (as we haue admonished before)
may be conuersaunt with the vnbeleauers and wicked.
The seconde place is /
[[1. Cor. 7.]]
Paule wolde not that the faithfull maried vnto an vnbeleuer
sholde departe / yf the vnbeleuer will dwell together with the
other. This I do also acknowledge / as befor I haue said: for
vnto thẽ / al necessary businesses / especially those which are
ordeyned of God / are to be done. And yet in that place which is
here alledged / Paule is not so to be vnderstanded without
exception / as these mẽ do iudge: for yf the vnbeleuĩg maried
parson / shold cõtinually moue the faithfull to Idolatrie / or
sholde not cease to blaspheme Christ / and prouoke the other to
cõmit like blasphemie / so lõg as thei did liue together / this
ioynt life in mariadge were not to be cõtinued: for this were
not to dwell together / but to conspire together against Christ:
Paule therfor speaketh of suche cohabitacion as is laufull
without suche soliciting or mouinge to euell and blasphemye.
An other sentence of Paule is broughte which he writeth to the
Corinthians /
[[1. Cor. 5.]]
where he teacheth that all couetous parsons / euill speakers /
dronckardes / whoremũgars / and such lyke are not to be
auoided / for then sholde they haue gone out of the worlde.
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