The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce: In Two Books : Also the Judgement of Martin Bucer : Tetrachordon : and an Abridgement of Colasterion |
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... Saviour never more grieved and troubled , than to meet with such a peevish madness among men against their own freedom . How can we expect him to be less offended with us , when much of the same folly shall be found yet remaining where ...
... Saviour never more grieved and troubled , than to meet with such a peevish madness among men against their own freedom . How can we expect him to be less offended with us , when much of the same folly shall be found yet remaining where ...
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... Saviour with a solemn threat forbid the abrogating . For no effect of tyranny can sit more heavy on the commonwealth , than this household unhappiness on the family . And farewell all hope of true refor- mation in the state , while such ...
... Saviour with a solemn threat forbid the abrogating . For no effect of tyranny can sit more heavy on the commonwealth , than this household unhappiness on the family . And farewell all hope of true refor- mation in the state , while such ...
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... Saviour could prevail about this doctrine of charity against the crabbed textuists of his time , I make no wonder , but rest confident , that whoso prefers either matri- mony or other ordinance before the good of man and the plain ...
... Saviour could prevail about this doctrine of charity against the crabbed textuists of his time , I make no wonder , but rest confident , that whoso prefers either matri- mony or other ordinance before the good of man and the plain ...
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... Saviour's words touching divorce are , as it were , congealed into a stony rigour , inconsistent both with his doctrine and his office ; and that which he preached only to the conscience is by canonical tyranny snatched into the compul ...
... Saviour's words touching divorce are , as it were , congealed into a stony rigour , inconsistent both with his doctrine and his office ; and that which he preached only to the conscience is by canonical tyranny snatched into the compul ...
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... the robe of law , or law dis- guised in the loose garment of sin . Both which are too foul hypotheses , to save the phænomenon of our Saviour's answer to the Pharisees about this matter . And I trust anon by the help of 24 THE DOCTRINE AND.
... the robe of law , or law dis- guised in the loose garment of sin . Both which are too foul hypotheses , to save the phænomenon of our Saviour's answer to the Pharisees about this matter . And I trust anon by the help of 24 THE DOCTRINE AND.
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Page 354 - For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.
Page 297 - And he answered and said unto them, "Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, and said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
Page 129 - And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.
Page 279 - WHEN a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her : then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.
Page xv - Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope, but still bear up and steer Right onward.
Page xiii - ... accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges ; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society ; but he that loves not his wife and children, feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows ; and blessing itself cannot make him happy ; so that all the commandments of God enjoining a man...
Page 304 - For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as the Lord our God is in all things that we call upon him for? And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?
Page 304 - Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.
Page 90 - That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked; and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?
Page 259 - He is the Rock, his work is perfect : for all his ways are judgment : a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.