A10322:80
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
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.
The third is in the Epistle to the Romans the seventh chap. dKnow ye not brethren (for I speak to them that know the law) that the law hath Dominion over a man as long as he liveth? For the woman, which is in subjection to a man, is bound by the law to the man while he liveth: but if the man be dead, she is delivered from the law of the man. So then if while the man liveth, she take another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if the may be dead she is free from the law, soe that she is not an adulteress, though she take another man. Out of which place and ethe like in the seventh of the first Epistle to the Corinthians, We gather (saith Bellarmin) that the band of marriage ⟨p. 30⟩is never loosed but by death: and that seeing it is not loosed, it remaineth after divorcement too, for whatsoever cause the divorce be made. This doth Bellarmin gather: but gathering soe, he reapeth that which the holy Ghost sowed not. For S. Pauls meaning in those words to the Romans and Corinthians was, that the band of marriage is not loosed commonly and ordinarily while both the parties live; not that absolutely, it is never loosed till one of them die. As in the like case (to open the matter by his own examples) hef saith Who goeth to Warfare any time at his own cost? Now some have served at their own charges without pay sometimes. For soe did theg Roman stock of the Fabij against the Vientians andh Clinias an Athenian Citizen against the Persians. But men for the most part are waged publicly thereunto. And that is the point which S. Paul respected. Againi Who planteth a Vineyard, & eateth not of the fruit thereof? • He on whom they father the first occasion of that proverb Many things do happen between the cup and the lip; is said not to have drunk of the fruit of the Vineyard which himself had planted, nor to have eaten thereof belike. At least seeing