A14133:154
An exposition upon the v.vi.vii. chapters of Matthew which three chapters are the key…An exposycyon vpon the v.vi.vii. chapters of Mathewe which thre chapters are the keye…
An exposition upon the v.vi.vii. chapters of Matthew which three chapters are the key and the door of the scripture, and the restoring again of Moses law corrupt by the scribes and pharisees. And the exposition is the restoring again of Christs law corrupt by the Papists. Item before the book, thou hast a prologue very necessary, containing the whole sum of the covenant made between God and us, upon which we be baptised to keep it. And after thou haste a table that leadeth the by the notes in the margents, unto all that is entreated of in the book.An exposycyon vpon the v.vi.vii. chapters of Mathewe which thre chapters are the keye and the dore of the scrypture, and the restoring agayne of Moses lawe corrupt by ye scrybes and pharyses. And the exposycyon is the restorynge agayne of Chrystes lawe corrupte by the Papystes. Item before the boke, thou hast a prologe very necessary, conteynynge the whole sum of the couenaunt made betwene God and vs, vpon whiche we be baptysed to kepe it. And after thou haste a table that ledeth the by the notes in the margentes, vnto al that is intreated of in the booke.
London? : R. Redman, 1536?
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It is said / whosoever put away his wife / let him give her a testimonial of the divorcement. But I say unto you / who so ever putteth away his wife (except it be for fornication) maketh her to break wedlock / and whoso ever marrieth the divorced / breaketh wedlock.
It is sayde / whosoeuer put away hys wyfe / let hym gyue her a testymonyal of the deuorcement. But I saye vnto you / who so euer putteth away his wyfe (except it be for fornycacyō) maketh her to breke wedlocke / and whoso euer maryeth the deuorced / breketh wedlocke.
Moses Deut. 24.1 permitted his Israelites in extreme necessity, as when they so hated their wives that they abhorred the company of them then to put them away,2 to avoid a worse inconvenience, whereof ye read also Nath. xix. And he knit thereto that they might not receive them again after they had ben known of any other persons, which licence the Jews abused and put away their wives for every light or feigned cause, and when so ever they lusteth. But Christ calleth back again and interpreteth the law after the first ordinance and cutteth of all causes of divorcement, save fornication of the wives party, when she breaketh her matrimony. In which case Moses law pronounceth her deed, & so do the laws of many other countries, which laws where they be used, there is the man free without all question. Now where they be let live / there the man (if he see sign of repentance and amendment) may forgive for once. If he may not find in his hart (as Joseph as holy as he was could not find in his heart to take Christs mother to him, when he spied her with child) he is free no doubt to take another while the law interpreteth her deed, for her sin ought of no right to bind him.