A10322:55
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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And these considerations do likewise stop the passage of ⟨p. 14⟩another shift, which this cousin german to the last entreated of, and Bellarmin praiseth it alike. To wit that the words committeth adultery, must be supplied and understood in the former part of Christs sentence thus: Whosoever putteth away his wife, except it be for whoredom, committeth adultery, and whoso marrieth another committeth adultery. xSolomon did wisely judg that she was not the mother of the child who would have it divided; but she who desired it might be saved entire. Surely the Jesuit hath not those bowels of kind and loving affection towards Christs sentence that a Christian should, who can find in his heart to have it divided; & of one living body, namely, Whosoever putteth away his wife, except it be for whoredom and, marrieth another, committeth adultery, made as it were two pieces of a dead carcass, the first, Whosoever putteth away his wife, except it be for whoredom, committeth adultery, the second, whoso marrieth another commiteth adultery. Which dealing, beside the inconvenience of making the scripture a nose of wax & leaden rule, if men may add what pleaseth them, specially if they may also mangle sentences, & chop them in sundry parts: but beside this mischief here it hath a greater, that Christ most true and holy, is made thereby to speak an untruth. For a man may put away his wife for other cause, then for whoredom, & yet not commit adultery himself. Yes, he committeth it (saith Bellarmin) in his wives adultery, whereof he was the cause by putting her unjustly away. But I reply that it is one thing to cause his wife to commit it, another to commit it himself. And y Christ when he was minded to note these several faults, did it with5 several words expressing them accordingly. Moreover, understanding the term, to put away, not as6 the force thereof doth yield, & Christ took it for loosing of the band of marriage, but for a sepe ration from bed, and board only, as Bellarmin understandeth it: He cannot allow the sentence which he fathereth one Christ, though soe expounded, without either condemning of the Trent Council, or being himself condemned by it.