" And the old father Augustine judgeth the selfsame
marriage to be good and perfect, and that it ought not to be broken
again. These men, if a man have once bound himself by a vow, though
afterwards he burn, keep queans, and defile himself with never so sinful
and desperate a life, yet they suffer not that person to marry a wife; or
if he chance to marry, they allow it not for marriage. And they commonly
teach it is much better and more godly to keep a concubine and harlot,
than to live in that kind of marriage.
The old father Augustine complained of the multitude of ceremonies,
wherewith he even then saw men's minds and consciences overcharged. These
men, as though God regarded nothing else but their ceremonies, have so
out of measure increased them, that there is now almost none other thing
left in their churches and places of prayer.
Again, that old father Augustine denieth it to be lawful for a monk to
spend his time slothfully and idly, and, under a pretended and
counterfeit holiness, to live all upon others. And whoso thus liveth,
the old father Apollonius likeneth him to a thief.
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