Note 1268 — Chapter IX · THE PROTESTANT CONCEPTION OF MARRIAGE
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"But when thou livest godly and honestly in single life, it is well and allowable afore God; yea, and better than marriage."—Latimer, Sermons, 393, 394. Cf. Fulke, Answers, 228, 383; idem, Defence, 492; Hutchinson, Works, 148; see also Cartwright, in Whitgift's Works, III, 293. But see the curious passage in Tyndale's Doctrinal Treatises, 21, which should be compared with his argument against the doctrine that "widowhood and virginity exceed matrimony," ibid., 313-15.