The Third Part, Article XI
Of the Marriage of Priests.
1 To prohibit marriage, and to burden the divine order of priests with perpetual celibacy, they have had neither authority nor right a, but have acted like antichristian, tyrannical, desperate scoundrels b, and have thereby caused all kinds of horrible, abominable, innumerable sins of unchastity c, in which they still wallow. 2 Now, as little as we or they have been given the power to make a woman out of a man or a man out of a woman, or to nullify either sex, so little have they had the power to d separate such creatures of God, or to forbid them from living e honestly in marriage with one another. 3 Therefore we are unwilling to assent to their abominable celibacy, nor will we f tolerate it, but we wish to have marriage free as God has instituted g it, and we wish neither to rescind nor hinder His work; for Paul says, 1 Tim. 4, 1 ff., that this h is a doctrine of devils.
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