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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: with his own hand. This required a longer time than the Marquis of Northampton could stay; and, therefore, presuming on his great power, without waiting for judgment, he solemnly married Elizabeth, daughter to Brooke, Lord Cobham. On the 28th of January, information was brought to the council of this, which gave great scandal, since his first marriage yet stood firm in law. So he, being put to answer for himself, said, he thought by the word of God he was discharged of his tie to his former wife; and the making marriages indissoluble was but a part of the popish law, by which it was reckoned a sacrament; and yet the popes, knowing that the world would not easily come under such a yoke, had, by the help of the canonists, invented such distinctions, that it was no uneasy thing to make a marriage void among them: and that the condition of this church was very hard, if, upon adulteries, the innocent must either live with the guilty, or be exposed to temptations to the like sins, if a separation was only allowed, but the bond of the marriage continued undissolved. But since he had proceeded so far before the delegates had given sentence, it was ordered, that he and his new wife should be parted; and that she should be put into his sister the Queen Dowager's keeping, till the matter were tried, whether it was according to the word of God or not; and that then further order should be given in it. Upon this the delegates made haste, and gathered their arguments together: of which I shall give an abstract, both for the clearing of this matter (concerning which, not many years ago, there were great debates in parliament), and also to shew the exactness of the proceedings in that time. Christ condemned all marriages upon divorces, except hich in the case of adultery, which seemed manife...
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