A10322:54
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
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yea, even in the former too, who would not think that my meaning were the exception should reach, unto both the branches of drawing the sword, & killing a man; not to be abridged & tied up unto the first, as if I had said, whosoever draweth his sword (which none may do except he be a magistrate) & killeth a man, committeth murder? yet one who were disposed to play the Jesuits part, might thus expound my speech, and say I taught thereby that Peter in deed was justly reproved for drawing his sword though,q he killed not: But magistrates are authorized to draw it, and no more, not to put men, to death, &r to take vengeance on him that doth evil. Neither should he do me greater wrong▪ there in by making me to speak contrary to scripture, then Bellarmin doth Christ by the like depraving of the like sentence. But if all these reasons will not persuade his scholars, that in Christs speech the exception of whoredom is to be extended to both the points jointly of putting away & marrying: & that Bellarmin adding these words, which is not lawful, did unlawfully sow a patch of human rags to the whole garment of Gods most precious word: behold their own doctrine allowed & established by the Council of Trent, shall force them, will they, nill they to see it & acknowledge it. For if the exception be so tied only to the former point: Then a man may not putt away his wife for any cause save for whoredom, no not from bed and board, as they term it, that is, from mutual company & society of life, although he marry not another. But the Council of Trent pronounceth and defineth,s that there are many causes, for the which a man may put away his wife from bed and board, wherefore the Papists (no remedy) must grant that the exception cannot so be tied unto the former point only. And therefore whereas Bellarmin sayeth further that he thinketh it ist S. Thomas of Aquine's opinion that Christs words should be expounded so: & uJerome seemeth some what to be of the same mind: the Papists peradventure will be fain to say that Bellarmin was deceived herein. For else not only Jerome of whom they reckon less but