476 il .Caimmootary upon the Go el ------____i Çháp.x9: demoniac ks and rafhdivorcers? Chrifk,the belt husband, hates put= (7ting away, Mal.2. rG. yea though never fo much provoked to it er.3.4. /ohm 3. r.) he will not doe it. Verfèy. Why did Metes thenCOm2d &c.] Sophilter -like they oppofe Mofes to God, Scripture to Scripture, as ifGood were againft himfelf. This is £kill the guifeof graceleff: hereticks ; as allò to mingle and jumble together truths with fal(hoods that falfhoods may palie the more currant, See it thefe It was true that Mofes commanded ( for the honour of chewo_ man, anddifgrace of the man,) that he fhould give her anAbfcef fionale,a bill (fdivorcement. But it was not true that /liefes com- manded to put her away. He permitted frtch a thing indeed as a civil Magiftrace by divinedifpenfation (better an ìnconVenience then a mifchie.f) but that makes little for its lawfullneffe. Verfe 8. Mofes, becu ofthe hardnefreof your hearts duricordiam wetram, faith Tertullia For the reliefe . f the . wife,queftionleffe,was this permitced.by Mofes, not as a Prophet, but as a Law- giver.; fo he ¡Offered them to exercife ufury upon ftrangers. And, at this day, they are by the States where they live . s ec.-E,ur ,nds permitted, to ftrain up their ufury to i 8. in the hundred upon the F Chrifkians : And fo they are ufèd, as the Fri meanc-ft, and tobe lucked by thegreaten -. eButtwh tkfa faith cur stator r 2. Eli. Statute? Iorafmuch as all afar being from the tab rap' 8. y forbidden by the Law of God, is a fin and deceftab;e, &c. And what faith our Homily_ FrOwIt. vot.a. book ? Verily lomany as increafc themfelves by ufury-_- they have u ¿7.p'g z. theirgcodsofthe devils gift, etc. And what faith blinde Nature? ?war. in .Ariflot in one page condemneth both 7=;us iv S1tcne. v,urer and theDicer. And and v the fire upon all the ufurersbooks andbonds intheemarket- placethen which fire e.f:g-eflaus was wont to fay, he never taw a fairer. But to return to the text : Mofes noceth the hatred of a mans wife to he thecaufe of much tnifchief, Deut.2 s. r 3, r4. Hence a divorce was fuffcred in that cafe, Chapt.24.3. left the husbands hatred, fhould work the wives rushor ruin, in cafe he fhould be compell(d to k; epher. He might put her away therefore, but not without a dkable bur tohimfelf, s. By his writing of divorce, he fhould give teftivaany to her honefty, and that (he was put awaj, meerly fir his hard-heartednele toward her. 2. If the were again put away by a fecond husband, the firfk might not take her to wife a,. gáin,as having once forever judg'd himfelf unworthy ofher fur- ther
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