A10322:155
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.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
yet an Italian fMarquess, who put to death his wife taken in adultery & married another, declareth that6 not only Spaniards will adventure to make their wives away, if finding them unchaste, they must have some and would have better.3 Finally if the wife, not able to have any children by her husband, have some by an adultererg (for this may come to pass also) the brethren,5 or the next of kin to the husband, shall loose his inheritance: & that which they ought to enjoy by right the adulterous seed will intercept & purloin. I let pass the public harms & discommodities which byh such iniquities of private persons were likely to accrue to the common weal. These that I have touched suffice to overweigh our adversaries reason drawn from inconveniences. For if I should stand on the children alone, even those already borne whom7 Bell. expressly mentioneth & nameth: the ⟨p. 90⟩hardness of a stepfather or stepmother lighting on them by the second marriage, cannot counterpoise the loss in education, wealth, inheritance, honour, which an adulterous parent bringeth. Beside that the children to be borne afterward (as Bell. by naming those already borne seemeth to confess) should be evil provided for: whose baseness of birth & discommodities following it Proceeded from restraint of marring again after divorcement for adultery. Wherefore if we put withal in our balance the detriments & harms, that grow to the father, the mother, the brethren & kinsmen of the father I might say to the common weal too: the balance of out adversaries will be tilted up so high by the weight of ours, as if it were lighter then vanity it self.
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