A10322:89
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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Of the which consequences if some be esteemed erroneous by Papists some not esteemed only, but are so in deed, the most have impious folly joined with untruth: Let Bellarmin acknowledge that similitudes must not be set upon the rack, nor the drift thereof be stretched and pressed in such sort, as if they ought just in length breadth and depth to match and fit-that whereto they are resembled. It sufficeth if in a general analogy and proportion of the principal point wherein things are matched, and compared together, they be each like to other, and both agree in one quality. Which here is observed in S. Pauls comparison of the state of Marriage, with the state of man before and after regeneration: becausey as a wife her husband being dead doth lawfully take another, and is not an adulteress in having his company to bring forth fruit of her body, to him: soez regenerate persons, their natural corruption (provoked by the law to sin) and flesh being mortified, are joined to the Spirit (the force of Christ working in them) as it were to a second husband, that they should bring forth fruit (the fruits of the Spirit) unto God. And thus seeing neither the drift of the similitude, nor the judgment of the Fathers, nor the plainness of the words so oftentimes repeated, do disprove our answer and exposition of the place: our answer proved by Scripture standeth firm and sure and therefore the third place urged by our adversaries, ⟨p. 38⟩is suitable to the former.
Of the which consequences if some bee esteemed erroneous by Papists some not esteemed onely, but are so in deede, the most have impious folly ioyned with vntruth: Let Bellarmin acknowledg that similitudes must not bee sett vpon the racke, nor the drift thereof bee stretched and pressed in such sorte, as if they ought iust in length bredth and depth to match and fitt-that whereto they are resembled. It sufficeth if in a generall analogy and proportion of the principall poynt wherein things are matched, and compared together, they bee eche like to other, and both agree in one qualitie. Which here is observed in S. Pauls comparisō of the state of Marriage, with the state of man before and after regeneration: becausey