A10322:152
A defence of the judgment of the Reformed churches. That a man may lawfully…A defence of the iudgment of the Reformed churches. That a man may lawfullie…
A defence of the judgment of the Reformed churches. That a man may lawfully not only put away his wife for her adultery, but also marry another. / Wherein both Robert Bellarmin the Jesuits Latin treatise, and an English pamphlet of a nameless author maintaining the contrary are co[n]futed by John Raynolds. A taste of Bellarmins dealing in controversies of religion: how he depraveth Scriptures, misalleagthe [sic] fathers, and abuseth reasons to the perverting of the truth of God, and poisoning of his Church with error..A defence of the iudgment of the Reformed churches. That a man may lawfullie not onelie put awaie his wife for her adulterie, but also marrie another. / Wherin both Robert Bellarmin the Iesuites Latin treatise, and an English pamphlet of a namelesse author mainteyning the contrarie are co[n]futed by Iohn Raynolds. A taste of Bellarmins dealing in controversies of religion: how he depraveth Scriptures, misalleagthe [sic] fathers, and abuseth reasons to the perverting of the truth of God, and poisoning of his Churche with errour..
Dordrecht: printed by George Walters, 1609
Chapter 4: THE FOURTH CHAPTER.Chapter 4: THE FOVRTH CHAPTER.
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and if he have no brethren, to his Fathers brethren, and so forth to the next kinsman of his family. Unto which ordinance: the laws of all well nordered states & common weals are, though in certain circū stances different, yet in substance suitable. The seventh, that it is sundry ways incommodious for a child to be unlawfully begotten, ⟨p. 87⟩and (as we term it) base borne because both theo ignominy thereof is a blemish, &p that blemish breedeth baseness of courage; &q bastards are not brought up so well by their parents as lawful children use to be: neither are they privileged a like; & preferred tor place of public government, ors Benefit of inheritance, by Laws divine or humane. And these things being weighed well show that Bellarmins reason corrected by the Pamphleteer needeth a new correction: & if inconveniences might decide our question which they cannot do fort many things are lawful that are not expedient but if they might decide it, they would sway with us rather then against us. For in case the man, burning with jealousy & ragev which is usual in this kind of injury or the woman being (asx adulteresses commonly are) wicked, impudent, once naught & always naught, he will not, or may not keep or take her again, the children missing her, are destitute of a mother to look to their education. And then it were better for them that their father took a second wife to bring them up, asy