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Page 141
... adultery or desertion could dissolve it ; and this is the sense of our canon courts in England to this day , but in no other Reformed Church else : yet there remains in them also a burden on it as heavy as the other two were disgraceful ...
... adultery or desertion could dissolve it ; and this is the sense of our canon courts in England to this day , but in no other Reformed Church else : yet there remains in them also a burden on it as heavy as the other two were disgraceful ...
Page 142
John Milton. • divorce , besides adultery , were by the law of Moses , and are yet to be allowed by the Christian magistrate as a piece of justice , and that the words of Christ are not hereby contraried . Next , that to prohibit ...
John Milton. • divorce , besides adultery , were by the law of Moses , and are yet to be allowed by the Christian magistrate as a piece of justice , and that the words of Christ are not hereby contraried . Next , that to prohibit ...
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... adultery . To the same extent it would be as pithily absurd to publish , that a man may moderately divorce , if to do that be entirely naught . But to end this moot : the law of Moses is manifest to fix no limit therein at all , or such ...
... adultery . To the same extent it would be as pithily absurd to publish , that a man may moderately divorce , if to do that be entirely naught . But to end this moot : the law of Moses is manifest to fix no limit therein at all , or such ...
Contents
FROM THE TREATISE OF REFORMATION IN ENGLAND | 1 |
FROM THE TREATISE OF PRELATICAL EPISCOPACY | 25 |
FROM ANIMADVERSIONS UPON THE REMONSTRANTS DEFENCE | 65 |
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