A10322:81
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.
They eat not of the milk, who do not milk their sheep at all: ando there be who do not, for fear of impairing thereby the lambs or wool. But it is sufficient for S. Pauls purpose, & the truth of his speech, that men in mostp countries are wont to have them milked: & they who undertake the pains of feeding flocks, are accustomed to eat of the milks of the flocks. Againq No man ever hated his own flesh but nourisheth & cherisheth it▪ Cato the younger, who slew himself at Utica, rwas so far from nourishing and cherishing his body, that when his bowels being gushed out thereof, he was not yet dead, he tore them in pieces with his own hands ass Rasias also did. Neither would S. Paul have denied this: who knew thatt many had ⟨p. 31⟩killed themselves, and taken away all joys of life from their flesh. Only he meant that no man hath ever lightly hated it, but every one doth nourish and cherish it rather. uNoah man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of life, because he would please him that hath chosen him to be a Soldier. What? is this false, because xthe rich Crassus being chosen by the Romans to be their General in Syria, did without all care of pleasing them, who chose him, play the merchant man and occupied himself in counsels & money matters? Or because ay band of Campanian soldiers, who served the king of Sicily gave themselves to citizens trades and occupations, having by treachery seized on Messana, dispossessed the townsmen, divided their wives, goods and lands among them, & a band of Romans did the like in Rhegiū, to the discontentment of such as chose them to be soldiers, No. for the Apostle who exhorted Timothy