CHAP.1.6. v1Commentarievpan the 1.26 fended in Dauid; feeiog the confanguinitieof the wife is in the famede- gree to the husband 4s to the wife: and therefore Dauid could no more 1.marrie the [Iepmothersof hiswife Mical, then iftheyhad been his own. 3. Weneuerread that Dauid tooke any of them that were Sauls , to be- come wife vntohimfelfe. O6ieft. Deter.zt.to.15. thereare twolaweswhich feeme to favour { it. Ifamancall his affe&ion upon a- woman,&c. And if a manbane two wiues,the fonneof the hated,if firft borne,fhal inherit :and therefore the Lordat leall pennitteth polygamie. Anf.Neither ofthefetwowere limply lawful,nor by the law approo_ ued to be done:but after it was doue,theLord prouidetha law to auoid the greatef} confufion, by tolerating andnot diffoluing it:neither is the law vnrighteous hrrein,feeing it neither approoueth ir, nor (imply per- mitteth the faót, but ( fuppofing fuck a diforder may be done) fheweth what is bell in fuch a confufiô:fo theLord tolerated the bill ofdiuorce, but neuer as agreeable to hiswill :but as obferuing a wife rule of lawgi_ videndum br uers that in publike corruptions,fpeciail euills are then to be tolerated, gmddebeas,A qudpoi . when they cannot be cured, without a more greiuous publikeeuill.Ifit be here faid,that the wifdome and power of Godmight haue amended or cut offfuch diforders, if hehad fo conceiued ofthem: I anfwer, it is a vaine allegationoftnen,not confideringthat the Lord then fuflained the perfon of a lawgiuer to a people whom he chofe aboueall thenations of the earth,and not ofa Iudge. Obiaft. Deut.z5.5. The law was,that a brother dying without if'fue, the next brother ( who perhaps was married) mull marrie his brothers wife. e 4 f. We Wall not neede to anfwer with Tomeof the learned, that thewidowwas not to become thewife ofthe brother furuiuing;but that he was to goe in co her and doe thedutyofa husband in railing feede to his brother : but that it was a fpeciall commandement, for thofe times, for certaine perfons,and caufes. For it was not fo general] as Tome may take it: feting z. it mull bemeant ofbrethren dwelling together,that is, fuch as had nor planted themfelues inCome other familie. 2. andnot if any brother fhould die, but if the eldell or firfl borne, whofe name and see Masth.ea. familymull be preferuedand reared ; both in type and fignification of theprerogatiueofChrill,the firm borne of many brethren;as alto for the 1 preleruation of inheritances to families, and by families the politic and ordinances ofGod amongfl his people. Now thefe fpeciall confiderati- ons,cutoff all pleas for polygamie,and the rather Icing Chrill hash fince put an end toall ceremonies and thadows,andcalled vsvino his firft in- flitution.
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