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1 a Or, expedient because mariage, through mans corruption, and not by Gods institution bringeth cares and troubles.
2 b Speaking to all men in general.
3 c Which conteineth all due cities perteining to mariage.
6 d He sheweth that he commandeth not precisely all men to marie, but that God hathe granted this remedie vnto them which can not liue chaste.
9 e With the fyre of concupiscence, that is when mans wil so giueth place to the lust that temteth, that he can not call vpon God with a quiet conscience.
11 f For hatred, dissension, angre, &c.
11 ! Of discordes & dissension in mariage,
12 h In asmuche as there was nothing expresly spoken hereof in the Law, or Prophetes: or els he spake this moued by the Spirit of God as he testifieth in the 25. ver.
14 i Meaning, that the faith of the beleuer hathe nore power to sanctifie mariage then the wickednes of the other to pollute it.
14 k They that are borne of ether of the parents faithful are also counted members of Christs Church, because of the promes, {Act. 2, 39}
15 l When suche things come to passe, that the faithful & vnfaithful be maried together, and the one forsake the other without cause.
18 n Which is when the surgeon by arte draweth out the skinne to couer the parte, Celsus lib. 7 ca 25 Epiphan lib de ponderib & mensure {1Maccab 1, 16}
18 ! Of uncircumcising the circumcised.
21 p Althogh God hathe called thee to serue in this life, yet thinke not thy condition vnworthie for a Christian: but rejoyce, that thou art deliuered by Christ from the miserable sclauerie of sinne and death.
21 ! Of seruitude.
25 / Or, the state of virginitie.
25 s He blindeth no man to that which God hathe left fre: but sheweth what is moste agreable to Gods wil, according to the circumstance of the time, place & persones.
25 / Or, belieued.
26 t To be single.
28 x As worldlie cares of their children & familie.
28 y He doeth not preferre singlenes as a thing more holie then mariage, but by reason of incommodities, which the one hathe more then the other.
30 b Which be in prosperitie.
33 / And he is diuided, meaning into diuers cares.
35 f Seing S. Paul colde binde no mans conscience to single life, what presumption is that anie other shulde do it.
37 i For the fathers wil dependeth on his childrens in this point: in so muche as he is bounde to haue respect to their infirmitie, nether can he justly require of them singlenes, if they haue not that gift of God so to liue.
39 ! And seconde mariage.