A26981:895
A paraphrase on the New Testament with notes, doctrinal and practical, by plainness and…A paraphrase on the New Testament with notes, doctrinal and practical, by plainess and…
A paraphrase on the New Testament with notes, doctrinal and practical, by plainness and brevity fitted to the use of religious families, in their daily reading of the Scriptures : and of the younger and poorer sort of scholars and ministers, who want fuller helps : with an advertisement of difficulties in the Revelations / by Richard Baxter.A paraphrase on the New Testament with notes, doctrinal and practical, by plainess and brevity fitted to the use of religious families, in their daily reading of the Scriptures : and of the younger and poorer sort of scholars and ministers, who want fuller helps : with an advertisement of difficulties in the Revelations / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for B. Simmons, 1685
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.
8. He saith to them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives, but from the beginning it was not so.
8. You mistake a permission for a command: your Fathers were an ignorant dull unruly sort of people, and Moses was put to make but such Laws as they could bear: Therefore he permitted putting away, but only commanded that they should not do it without a bill of Divorcement.
9. And I say to you, whoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery, and whoso marrieth her that is put away doth commit adultery.
9. Note, 1. The Fornication must be proved and not only suspected. 2. It must be Fornication since Marriage. 3. A man is not commanded for this to put her away, and not forgive it, if there be reason for it, but only permitted. 4. In Common-wealths the Magistrate must be judge, for public safety, 5. The woman is not so fitly said to put away her husband; but by the Magistrate may have the same remedy of a Divorce when she doth desire it.