A10322:154
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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he may incur as great danger or shame, or both, nay greater, on the other side, by lack of a necessary help for his living, or by state of body subject to certain sicknesses or by incontinency, whether consumingx & burning him without remedy, or forcing himy to damnable remedies of whoresz or worse. Further more his wife, the adulterous mother, may be the boulder to sin, & to returna as the dog to his vomit, & the sow washed to wallowing in the mire, if she know her husband cannot want a wife, & must have her or none, which perhaps moved that Gentlewoman of Rome to be the more licentious,b whom her husband found playing the incestuous whore with their son in law:4 after that she had her ⟨p. 89⟩husband bound by oath that he would never separate & divorce her from him, so to be free to marry another, And why may not she live too in perpetual heaviness & fear, least her husband being chained with such necessity, should seek to get himself liberty of marrying by making her away? There was a certain Spaniard, whose wife driven out by him for her adultery & eftsoons reconciled, was, when she offended again, divorced from him by an Ecclesiastical Judge, at his suite, & shut into a monastery. The husband saying afterward that he loved her, & that he agreed for fear to the divorcement, desired that he might be reconciled to her, & she restored to him, according to thec Civill Lawd Navarus (as famous a man for skill in canon law, among the Papists, as Bell. for Divinity) being asked his judgment what should be done herein, made answer,e