John Trapp on Matthew 8:14

Verse 14. He saw his wives mother laid, &c.] A wife then Peter had, and if a good wife, she might be a singular help to him in his Ministry; As Nazianzens mother was to her husband, not [non-Latin text not transcribed]. Naz. a companion onely, but in some respects, a guide to godlinesse. S. Ambrose saith, that all the Apostles were married men, save John and Paul. And those Pope-holy hypocrites, that will not hear of Priests marriage, but hold it far better for them to have, Act. and Mon. [illegible: 1 word]. 790. and keep at home, many harlots then one wife, (as that carnall Cardinall [illegible: 1 word] defended) they might hear the contrary outHonestius est pluribus [illegible: 1 word] implicari, quam opertè [illegible: 2 words]. of their own Cannon-law, where it is written, Distin. 29. Si quis discernit Presbyterum conjugatum, tanquam occasione [illegible: 1 word] offerre non debeat, anathema esto. And again Distinct. 31. Siquis vituperat [illegible: 1 word], & [illegible: 1 word] cum viro suo fidelem & religiosam Ibid. 1054. detestatur, aut culpabilem aestimat, velut quae regnum Dei Ibid. 1008. introire non possit, anathemaesto. They might [illegible: 1 word] to Paphnutius, a famous Primitive Confessour: who, though himself an Hist. Tripar. [illegible: 1 word]. 2 cap 14. Ruffin Hist. [illegible: 1 word]. lib. [illegible: 1 word]. cap 4. unmarried man, mightily perswaded and prevailed with the [illegible: 1 word] [illegible: 1 word], that they should not decree any thing against Priests marriage: alledging, that marriage was honourable in all, and that the bed undefiled was true chastity, They might [illegible: 1 word] Si quis [illegible: 1 word] vocet [illegible: 5 words]. Ignatius, scholar to S. Iohn the Evangelist, pronouncing all such as call marriage a defilement, to be inhabited by that old Dragon the devil. But there is a politike reason that makes these men deaf, to whatsoever can be said to them by whomsoever; and you shall have it in the words of him that wrote the historyI [illegible: 1 word] Epist ad [illegible: 1 word]. of the Councell of Trent, (a Councell carried by the Pope, with such infinite [illegible: 1 word] and craft, that the Jesuites those [illegible: 1 word], S. [illegible: 1 word] Sands [illegible: 2 words]: [illegible: 1 word] West. rel. [illegible: 1 word] [illegible: 2 words]. Commeritricitegae will even smile in the triumps of their own wits, when they hear it but mentioned, as a master-stratagem.) The Legates in Trent-Councell (saith [illegible: 1 word]) were blamed, for suffering the Article of Priests Marriage to be disputed, as dangerous: Because it is plain, that married Priests will turn their affections and love to wife and children: and by consequence, to their [illegible: 1 word] and countrey: to that the strict dependance which the Clergy hath upon the Apostolike-sea would cease: and to grantHist. of [illegible: 1 word] of [illegible: 1 word] [illegible: 1 word]. 680. Marriage to Priests, would destroy the Ecclesiasticall Hierarchy, [illegible: 1 word] make the Pope, Bishop of Rome only.