item: #1 of 13
          id: A10322
      author: Rainolds, John, 1549-1607.
       title: 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..
        date: 1609
       words: 49346
      flesch: 78
     summary: si vosuerit al●●m ducare● 5 Potest ipse potest axoris li voluer●t alid ducere 6 Vt vobis videtur . Wherefore S , Austins mistaking of the worde and significatiō thereof is noe sufficiēt warrāt for Bellarmin● to ground on , that they must be taken so .
    keywords: adulterie; againe; ambrose; bee; bellarmin; bene; byshops; cap; cause; christ; church; commit; cor; councell; d ●; death; divorcement; doctrine; doe; doth; epist; exception; fathers; frō; generall; god; good; graunt; great; hath; hee; husband; husbād; l ●; law; lawfull; lib; like; man; marriage; marrie; marrieth; math; meaning; men; negative; owne; papists; paul; place; point; pope; proofe; reason; rome; saith; scripture; self; sentence; shee; sinne; soe; text; thē; things; thought; true; truth; vers; vnto; vpon; wee; whoredome; whosoever; wife; wives; woman; words; yea; ● e; ● h; ● m; ● n; ● ●
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        item: #2 of 13
          id: A17240
      author: Bunny, Edmund, 1540-1619.
       title: Of diuorce for adulterie, and marrying againe that there is no sufficient warrant so to do. VVith a note in the end, that R.P. many yeeres since was answered. By Edm. Bunny Bachelour of Divinitie.
        date: 1610
       words: 71352
      flesch: 67
     summary: Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor. In general, first editions of a works in English were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably Latin and Welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so.
    keywords: account; adulterie; adultery; againe; apostle; bee; betwixt; beza; bond; case; certaine; christ; church; course; divers; divorce; doe; doth; end; erasmus; esse; exception; farre; finde; force; giue; god; good; hath; haue; hee; himselfe; husband; ibid; iudgement; law; let; liberty; like; lord; man; marriage; marry; marrying; matter; meaning; nature; non; occasion; opinion; owne; pag; places; plaine; point; question; quod; reason; respect; rest; saith; scripture; sect; sed; seeme; sense; set; shew; sort; speake; speciall; speeches; stand; text; theirs; themselues; thereon; therevnto; thē; things; thinke; thought; time; truth; vnto; vpon; way; weake; wee; wel; wife; wiues; words; ● ●
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        item: #3 of 13
          id: A20684
      author: Dove, John, 1560 or 61-1618.
       title: Of diuorcement A sermon preached at Pauls Crosse the 10. of May. 1601. By Iohn Doue, Doctor of Diuinitie.
        date: 1601
       words: 16513
      flesch: 66
     summary: Diuorcement is a seperation of man and wife by the law of man , which are ioyned together by the lawe of God. Others doo define marriage to the same effect as Melancthon did , but in more wordes : That marriage is a lawfull and perpetuall ioyning together of man and wife by the consent of them both , for the begetting of children , auoyding fornication , and mutuall comfort .
    keywords: adulterie; adultery; bee; christ; committeth; diuorcement; doo; doth; est; giue; god; hath; haue; hee; himselfe; husband; lawe; lawfull; let; man; marriage; moses; non; owne; saith; sauiour; second; shee; text; vnto; vpon; wife; wiues; woman; words
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        item: #4 of 13
          id: A36897
      author: Dunton, John, 1659-1733.
       title: The case of John Dunton, citizen of London with respect to his mother-in-law, Madam Jane Nicholas, of St. Albans, and her only child, Sarah Dunton : with the just reasons for her husband's leaving her : in a letter to his worthy friend, Mr. George Larkin, Senior : to which is added his letter to his wife.
        date: 1700
       words: 10428
      flesch: 56
     summary: For , Mr , Larkin , I tell it you as a Secret , ( tho' I shou'd and will be Master of my own House ) their Furious and Cavetous Treatment has frighted away all my Friends from the Raven , except Two , that come out of Curiosity to see 'em , that they may more sensibly lament my Case ; which you will think doleful , when I tell you , That I am so very VXORIOUS , ( as appears by my living with my First c Wife , 15 years , without hearing or giving one Angry Word ) that had Mother or Daughter but One Obliging Quality , I cou'd yet doat upon ' em . And with those words , I took leave of both Wife and Mother ; and then bid Farwel to the Black Raven , the most Pleasant House that I ever dwelt in .
    keywords: cou'd; estate; letter; mother; self; shou'd; tho; wife; world; wou'd
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        item: #5 of 13
          id: A53190
      author: Ochino, Bernardino, 1487-1564.
       title: A dialogue of polygamy, written orginally in Italian rendred into English by a person of quality ; and dedicated to the author of that well-known treatise call'd, Advice to a son.
        date: 1657
       words: 23502
      flesch: 76
     summary: Courteous Reader , I Desire thee to take notice , that by Polygamy or Plurality of wives , handled in this Treatise , is not meant that base practise of certain impudent , sharking rogues , whose manner is , to marry a Wife in one City or town , and devoure her Substance , and abuse her Body , and then run away to some far distant place , and marry another , leaving the first , with popoverty , shame , and , it may be , a great Belly to boot ; to be sure , sorrow enough , at Weeping Cross : & when they have served a second , wth the like ●oursauce , They remove their Quarters & make bold with a third , till the Gallowes catch them . Och. Do you not see how , in saying , he shall cleave to his Wife , ( not , Wives ) he teaches us , that a man is to have but one ?
    keywords: adultery; christ; divorce; god; husband; man; marriage; marry; men; mesch; och; paul; tel; thing; wife; wives
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        item: #6 of 13
          id: A55740
      author: Pressick, George.
       title: A case of conscience propounded to a great Bishop in Ireland viz., whether after divorce the innocent party may not lawfully marry : with the Bishop's answer to the question, and a reply to the Bishops answer, and also some quæries, whether the silencing of godly ministers be not near of kin to the killing of the two prophets, Revelation the 11 chap / by George Pressicke.
        date: 1661
       words: 15749
      flesch: 56
     summary: Fo● such a law would destroy an Ordinance of God , that is , Marriage and P●ocre●tion , and one end fo● which man was c●eated , that is , That the wife should be in subjection to her hu●band , as the Church is to Christ. Ephes. 5.24 . be not meant of the erecting of an externall Forme of Ecclesiasticall Government , like some Government that had been before : and what Government this making 〈…〉 Image of the Beast is , I desire to know : For the beast himsel●●●s said in the 6 verse , to blaspheme God , and his Tabernacle ; that is his Church and People : and in the 7 verse , He is said to make warre with the Saints , and overcome them ; that is , with the temporall sword , though they overcome him w●th the spirituall sword , and it is said in the 8 ve●se , that the power of the Beast should be so great , that all that dwell upon the Earth should worship him . that is , by submitting to his Edicts & Government , even all under his jurisdiction or Domin●on , whose Names are not written in the Booke of Life .
    keywords: adultery; bondage; cause; christ; church; divorce; fornication; god; hath; husband; law; man; marriage; men; scripture; sence; wife; ● ●
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        item: #7 of 13
          id: A66870
      author: Wolseley, Charles, Sir, 1630?-1714.
       title: The case of divorce and re-marriage thereupon discussed by a reverend prelate of the Church of England and a private of the Church of England and a private gentleman ; occasioned by the late act of Parliament for the divorce of the Lord Rosse.
        date: 1673
       words: 14673
      flesch: 44
     summary: Thirdly , There can be no good reason to limit what our Saviour said about Divorce in the 5th . of Matthew and the 19th . of Matthew to the Jews only , but we must needs admit it to be a general Law given in the case to all Ages , because he grounds his determination about it , not upon the Judicial Law , but upon reasons drawn from the general Law of Nature , and the first institution of marriage by God in the Creation of man and woman at the beginning , and such general principles , as had no peculiarity at all to the Jews , ( though they were obliged by them ) but such wherein all mankind were equally concerned : Our Saviour opposed the Pharisees and the Judaical practice , and establishes the Law he introduceth about it , by reducing the matter of Marriage and Divorce to the primitive rule of it , and to the natural and perpetual reason of the things in themselves considered , and therein spake not only to them , but to all mankind , and to the whole world ; He directs them to look to the first rise and original of Marriage , God made at first but one man and one woman , a male and a female , and appointed Them two in those two kinds to be in the relation of Marriage one flesh , so that Nature and Institution , the very Laws of mans first Creation , make the marriage-Union very sacred , and from thence our Saviour derives his direction about it ; And for Divorce , whereas the Jews upon every trivial occasion allowed it , our Saviour denies it to be lawful upon any occasion but one , and that grounded upon the natural and general reason of the thing in it self considered : The very essence of the marriage-Union , both by nature and primitive institution lyes in this , that two are one flesh ; where fornication is committed the Union is dissolved , for as St. Paul tells us , whoever joyns himself to an Harlot , is one flesh with her , and so in cases of such turpitude two are no longer one , but three or four or more in that marriage-sense of oneness , and so the oneness of two in marriage , which is the essence of it being dissolved , the marriage Not in reason , for whatsoever can be sufficient to Justifie a Divorce from all the ends of Marriage , must needs be sufficient to Justifie a Divorce from the obligation of Marriage , the one being but in order to the other ; It seems no way reasonable to bring any man into that condition , that the obligation of marriage should remain , and the helps and advantages of it be taken away ; 'T is to divide what God hath joyned , for he never appointed the one to go without the other ; It seems very undecent to say , two shall continue one flesh , and yet be excluded from all converse each with the other .
    keywords: adultery; case; church; disciples; divorce; exception; fornication; general; god; ground; jews; law; man; marriage; matter; matthew; moses; putting; rule; saviour; thing; wife
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        item: #8 of 13
          id: A69646
      author: Bucer, Martin, 1491-1551.
       title: The Ivdgement of Martin Bucer concerning divorce written to Edward the sixt, in his second book of the Kingdom of Christ, and now Englisht : wherein a late book restoring the doctrine and discipline of divorce is heer confirm'd and justify'd by the authoritie of Martin Bucer to the Parlament of England.
        date: 1644
       words: 16961
      flesch: 63
     summary: By the death of this most learned and most faithfull man , the Church of Christ sustaind a heavy losse ; as Calvin witnesteth ; and they who are studious of Calvin , are not ignorant how much he ascribes to Bucer ; for thus he writes in a Letter to Viretus : What a manifold losse be●ell the Church of God in the death o●Bucer , as oft as I call to minde , I feel my heart almost rent asunder . For against these my adversaries , who before the examining of a propounded truth in a fit time of reformation , have had the conscience to oppose ●ght 〈◊〉 but their blind reproaches and surmises , that a single innocence might not be oppr●st and overborn by a c●ow of mouths for the restoring of a law and doctrin falsely and unlernedly reputed new and scandalous , God , that I may ever magnifie and record this his goodnes , hath unexpectedly rais'd up as it were from the dead , more then one famous light of the first reformation to bear witne● with me , and to d●e me honour in that very thing , wherin these men thought to have blotted me : And hath giv'n them the proof of a capacity which they despis'd , running equal , and authentic with some of thir chiefest masters unthought of , and in a point of sagest moment .
    keywords: book; bucer; cause; chap; christ; christian; church; divorce; god; good; hath; holy; husband; law; life; lord; man; mariage; martin; men; therfore; wee; wife; words
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        item: #9 of 13
          id: A70542
      author: Lawrence, William, 1613 or 14-1681 or 2.
       title: Two great questions determined by the principles of reason & divinity I. whether the right to succession in hæreditary kingdoms, be eternal and unalterable? Neg. : II. whether some certain politick reasons may not be sufficient grounds of divorce? Affirm.
        date: 1681
       words: 13074
      flesch: 34
     summary: Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor. I. That the Power and Authority which Princes , or Supreme Magistrates have , is derived to them from God ; and that , by these several wayes , immediate Deputation , Hereditary Succession , and Election .
    keywords: authority; divorce; god; good; man; marriage; person; power; prince; reason; right; succession; supreme
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        item: #10 of 13
          id: A70591
      author: Milton, John, 1608-1674.
       title: The doctrine and discipline of divorce restor'd to the good of both sexes from the bondage of canon law and other mistakes to Christian freedom, guided by the rule of charity : wherein also many places of Scripture have recover'd their long-lost meaning : seasonable to be now thought on in the reformation intended.
        date: 1643
       words: 22879
      flesch: 40
     summary: He therefore that by adventuring shall be so happy as with successe to ease & set free the minds of ingenuous and apprehensive men from this needlesse thraldome , he that can prove it lawfull and just to claime the performance of a fit and matchable conversation , no lesse essentiall to the prime scope of marriage then the gift of bodily conjunction , or els to have an equall plea of divorce as well as for that corporall deficiency ; he that can but lend us the clue that windes out this labyrinth of servitude to such a reasonable and expedient liberty as this , deserves to be reck ▪ n'd among the publick benefactors of civill and humane life ; above the inventors of wine and oyle ; for this is a far dearer , far nobler , and more desirable cherishing to mans life , unworthily expos'd to sadnes and mistake , which he shall vindicate , Not that licence and levity and unconsented breach of faith should herein be countenanc't , but that some conscionable , and tender pitty might be had of those who have unwarily in a thing they never practiz'd before , made themselves the bondmen of a luckles and helples matrimony . Again , I answer , that the Sabbath is a higher institution , a command of the first Table , for the breach wherof God hath far more and oftner testify'd his anger then for divorces , which from Moses till after the captivity he never took displeasure at , nor then neither , if we mark the Text , and yet as oft as the good of man is cōcern'd , he not only permits , but commands to break the Sabbath ▪ What covnant more contracted with God , & lesse in mans power then the vow which hath once past his lips ? yet if it be found rash , if offensive , if unfruitfull either to Gods glory or the good of man , our doctrin forces not error and unwillingnes irksomly to keep it , but counsels wisdom and better thoughts boldly to break it ; therfore to injoyn the indissoluble keeping of a mariage found unfit against the good of man both soul and body , as hath been evidenc't , is to make an Idol , of mariage , to advance it above the worship of God and the good of man , to make it a transcendent command , above both the second and the first Table , which is a most prodigious doctrine .
    keywords: adultery; body; cause; charity; christ; christian; command; covnant; divorce; end; god; good; hath; law; lesse; life; love; man; mariage; men; moses; nature; reason; self; sin; text; wee; wife; words
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        item: #11 of 13
          id: A80850
      author: Cartwright, Thomas, 1535-1603.
       title: Helpes for discovery of the truth in point of toleration: being the judgment of that eminent scholler Tho. Cartwright, sometimes Divinity-Professor in the University of Cambridge in the reigne of Queen Elizabeth of happy memory, and then a famous non-conformist, for which through the tyranny of the Bishops he suffered exile. Wherein the power and duty of the magistrate in relation to matters of religion is discussed; as also whether the judiciall lawes given by Moses to the Jewes are abrogate by the coming of Christ. More particularly in relation to some sinnes, viz. blasphemy, adultery, &c. Occasionally handled in a controversie betweene the said publike professor T.C. and Doctor Whitgift. Here also by the way is laid downe his judgment in the case of divorce, and that the party innocent may marrie again.
        date: 1648
       words: 6616
      flesch: 61
     summary: 3. although his manner of speech ( in saying that all Moses is abrogated ) be hard , yet it will appeare that D. W. hath wrested this learned mans words from his meaning , and that he is but a snatcher at syllables ; for the meaning of that learned man Musculus was , that these Lawes are abrogate , as given by Moss , and doe notwithstanding remaine as they containe a perpetuall equity ; and that this is his meaning may be proved by comparing him with himselfe , for in the same title of Lawes he writeth thus , There are ( saith he ) that think that Christ did abrogate the punishment prescribed by the Law against Adulterers , when he saith , Neither doe I condemne thee , goe and sinne no more ; these be gay fellowes , they thinke not of this , that our Saviour Christ came into the world , not to judge or punish , but to save sinners : and yet in the meane season not to take away the punishments of the Law , given of God his Father by Moses ; whereupon he said not simply , thon thoughtest not to be condemned , &c. and so sheweth , that if she had been condemned according to the sentence of the Law , that the Lord would not have spoke against it . For if our Saviour hath answered that justice of God in his Law , whereby he hath commanded that such malefactors should be put to death , it should be great injustice to require that again in the life of the offender .
    keywords: christ; death; god; hath; judiciall; law; lord; magistrate; punishment; saviour
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        item: #12 of 13
          id: A87232
      author: Ivie, Thomas.
       title: Alimony arraign'd, or The remonstrance and humble appeal of Thomas Ivie Esq; from the high court of chancery, to His Highnes the Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland, &c. VVherein are set forth the unheard-of practices and villanies of lewd and defamed vvomen, in order to separate man and wife.
        date: 1654
       words: 23200
      flesch: 44
     summary: 2007-04 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2007-05 Apex CoVantage Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-06 Jonathan Blaney Sampled and proofread 2007-06 Jonathan Blaney Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion Alimony Arraign'd , OR THE REMONSTRANCE AND HUMBLE APPEAL OF THOMAS IVIE Esq From the High Court of CHANCERY , To His HIGHNES the LORD PROTECTOR of the Commonwealth of England , Scotland , and Ireland , &c. WHEREIN Are set forth the unheard-of Practices and Villanies of Lewd and Defamed Women , in Order to separate Man and Wife . The humble Petition of Theodosia Ivie , Plaintiff , Wife of Thomas Ivie , Defendant . THat She being the Daughter of John Stepkins Esq and married to the Defendant , who hath ( without any cause given him ) not only deserted her Company , but left her destitute of all manner of Means for her Livelihood and Subsistence ; And that during the time she cohabited with him , she hath not only been in great Danger of her Life , by bis Cruel Vsages , and unjust contrivances , but by some means occasioned by the Defendant , she hath been very Weak and Infirm ; And hath received from him such Infirmities , ( not becomming a Husband to conferr on his Wife ; ) And that by reason of his said cruelties , and the peril of receiving from him Diseases of Dangerous consequence , she could not cohabite with him as his Wife , without eminent peril of her Life ; And the Defendant was not only departed from her , but utterly denied to allow her any convenient Support ; And that for meer necessity she had contracted some small debts ; And therefore she prayed the speedy Aid of the Court ; And that They would summon the Defendant before Them , that upon hearing her just complaints , she might be relieved , and have such fitting Allowance by way of Alimony granted to her , as to the Court should seem meet ; And that for the present , she may have some convenient Allowance for Expences in this Sute , she being otherwise unable to proceed therein .
    keywords: alimony; c. f.; cause; commissioners; court; defendant; estate; hath; house; husband; ivie; l. c.; law; lords; mrs; self; stepkins; thomas; time; wife; williamson
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        item: #13 of 13
          id: A89158
      author: Milton, John, 1608-1674.
       title: Tetrachordon: expositions upon the foure chief places in scripture, which treat of mariage, or nullities in mariage. On Gen.I.27.28. compar'd and explain'd by Gen.2.18.23.24. Deut.24.1.2. Matth.5.31.32. with Matth.19. from the 3d.v. to the 11th. I Cor.7. from the 10th to the 16th. Wherein the doctrine and discipline of divorce, as was lately publish'd, is confirm'd by explanation of scripture, by testimony of ancient fathers, of civill lawes in the primitive church, of famousest reformed divines, and lastly, by an intended act of the Parlament and Church of England in the last eyare of Edvvard the sixth. / By the former author J.M.
        date: 1645
       words: 50091
      flesch: 54
     summary: And Adam said this is now bone of my bones , and flesh of my flesh , she shall be called Woman , because she was tak'n out of Man. That there was a neerer alliance between Adam and Eve , then could be ever after between man and wife , is visible to any . But marriage is one of the benignest ordinances of God to man , wherof both the general and particular end is the peace and contentment of mans mind , as the institution declares .
    keywords: adultery; bee; bin; body; cause; charity; christ; christian; church; civil; command; common; consent; divine; divorce; doe; end; flesh; fornication; god; gods; good; gospel; hath; heart; heer; husband; institution; law; life; lord; love; man; mariage; matrimony; men; moses; nature; person; place; reason; religion; right; saith; saviour; scripture; sin; som; text; thing; way; wee; wife; woman; words
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