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A. True, that matter of Divorce did move him to fail off from the Pope, and indeed, that cause was enough to fall off from the Pope, who would bind a Prince to an unlawful Marriage.

A. True, that matter of Divorce did move him to fail off from the Pope, and indeed, that cause was enough to fall off from the Pope, who would binde a Prince to an unlawful Marriage.

But the whole body of Christendom had a Three-fold ground of separation which may be just, when a Church is heretical; that is, hold an error contrary to the foundation obstinately, yet that is not a sufficient ground; as the Church of Corinth denied the Resurrection from the Dead, yet he calls them Saints; so though the Pharisees had charged that none should profess Christ, which was an obstinate denying of Christ, and taught false Doctrine, yet Christ charges them to obey them because they sit in Moses Chair, and therefore fundamental erroneousness is not always a just cause.

But the whole body of Christendom had a Three-fold ground of seperation which may be just, when a Church is heretical; that is, hold an errour contrary to the foundation obstinately, yet that is not a sufficient ground; as the Church of Corinth denied the Resurrection from the Dead, yet he calls them Saints; so though the Pharisees had charged that none should profess Christ, which was an obstinate denying of Christ, and taught false Doctrine, yet Christ charges them to obey them because they sit in Moses Chair, and therefore fundamental erroneousnesse is not alwayes a just cause.

1 Therefore that is a just cause of separation, when a Church is infected with Blasphemy, and Contradiction, and Blaspheme the ways of God,