A10322:88
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.
Finally, concerning that for the upshot he urgeth Pauls similitude as if then drift of it did absolutely require that the man and wife can not be made free from the band of Marriage by any separation but by death only, because while the law had life as it were and stood in force till Christ the Jews could never shake off the Yoke thereof from them, although they endeavoured to separate them-selves from it by committing whoredom with sundry laws of safe Gods: the rest of S. Pauls similitudes which I mentioned, do bewray the lameness and halting of this inference: seeing that the drift of them requireth absolutely by the same reason that no man went to warfare at his own cost, or planted Vines, or fed sheep, without relief thereby, becauseo all they pWho preach the Gospel are allowed to live of the Gospel. And likewise that no man did ever hurt his own body, becauseq Every husband ought to love his own wife ras Christ loved the Church: and likewise that no soldier hath ever entangled him-self with the affairs of life because Timothy should bes still about those actions, whereto the Lordt who choose him to he a soldier, did call him. Nay to go no farther then the drift it self of the similitude, which Bellarmin doth urge, if it require absolutely that the band of Marriage may be no way loosed but only by the husbands or the ⟨p. 37⟩wives death: then neither is it loosed, if the unbeliever do for sake the Christian: neither if the husband become a Monk or the wife a Nun; neither if the Pope see cause to dispense with either of them. And will not this fancy of his about that drift drive him into greater inconvenience yet: to wit, that every woman, whose husband is dead, ought to marry another, because the Jews were bound to become Christians after the death of the Law? or of the other side, that the Jews are not bound under pain of damnation to become Christians, because no widow is bound under pain of death to take another husband? or (if these absurdities be not great enough) that dead men ought to marry, because