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duty_n	ceremonial_a	law_n	moral_a	2,252	5	9.4056	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89141	Colasterion: a reply to a nameles ansvver against The doctrine and discipline of divorce. Wherein the trivial author of that answer is discover'd, the licencer conferr'd with, and the opinion which they traduce defended. / By the former author, J.M.	Milton, John, 1608-1674.	1645 (1645)	Wing M2099; Thomason E271_11; ESTC R212205	23,470	30

shake them The exposition of Deut. which I brought is the receav'd Exposition both ancient and modern by all lerned men unless it bee a Monkish Papist heer and there and the gloss which hee and his obscure assistant would perswade us to is meerly new and absurd presuming out of his utter ignorance in the Ebrew to interpret those words of the Text first in a mistakn sense of uncleanness against all approved Writers Secondly in a limited sense when as the original speaks without limitation some uncleannes or any and it had bin a wise Law indeed to mean it self particular and not to express the case which this a cute Rabbie hath all this while bin hooking for Wherby they who are most partial to him may guess that somthing is in this doctrin which I allege that forces the adversary to such a new strain'd Exposition wherin hee does nothing for above foure pages but founder himself to and fro in his own objections one while denying that divorce was permitted another while affirming that it was permitted for the wives sake and after all distrusts himself And for his surest retirement betakes him to those old suppositions that Christ abolisht the Mosaic Law of divorce that the Jews had not sufficient knowledge in this point through the darknes of the dispensation of heavnly things that under the plenteous grace of the Gospel wee are ty'd by cruellest compulsion to live in mariage till death with the wickedest the worst the most persecuting mate These ignorant and doting surmises he might have read confuted at large eevn in the first Edition but found it safer to pass that part over in silence So that they who see not the sottishnes of this his new and tedious Exposition are worthy to love it dearly His Explanation don hee charges mee with a wicked gloss and almost blasphemy for saying that Christ in teaching meant not always to bee tak'n word for word but like a wise Physician administring one excess against another to reduce us to a perfet mean Certainly to teach thus were no dishonest method Christ himself hath often us'd hyperbolies in his teaching and gravest Authors both Aristotle in the second of his Ethics to Nichomachus and Seneca in his seventh De Beneficiis advise us to stretch out the line of precept oft times beyond measure that while wee tend furder the mean might bee the easier attain'd And who-ever comments that fifth of Matthew when hee comes to the turning of cheek after cheek to blows and the parting both with cloak and coat if any please to bee the ●●fler will bee forc'● to recommend himself to the same 〈◊〉 though this catering Law-monger bee bold to call i● wicked Now note another pretious peece of him Christ 〈◊〉 hee doth not say that an unchast look is adultery but the lusting alter her as 〈◊〉 the looking unchastly could bee without lusting This gear is Licenc't for good reason Imprimatur Next hee would prove that the speech of Christ is not utter'd in excess against the Pharises First Because hee speaks it to his Disciples Matth. 5. which is fals for hee spake it to the multitude as by the first vers is evident among which in all likelihood were many Pharises but out of doubt all of them Pharisaean disciples and bred up in their Doctrin from which extremes of error and falsity Christ throughout his whole Sermon labours to reclaim the people Secondly saith hee Because Christ forbidds not only putting away but marrying her who is put away Acutely as if the Pharises might not have offended as much in marrying the divorc'd as in divorcing the maried The precept may bind all rightly understood and yet the vehement manner of giving it may bee occasion'd only by the Pharises Finally hee windes up his Text with much doubt and trepidation for it may bee his trenchers were not scrap't and that which never yet afforded corn of savour to his noddle the Salt-seller was not rubb'd and therfore in this hast easily granting that his answers fall foule upon each other and praying you would not think hee writes as a profet but as a man hee runns to the black jack fills his flagon spreds the table and servs up dinner After waiting and voiding hee thinks to void my second Argument and the contradictions that will follow both in the Law and Gospel if the Mosaic Law were abrogated by our Saviour and a compulsive prohibition fixt instead and sings his old song that the Gospel counts unlawfull that which the Law allow'd instancing in Circumcision Sacrifices Washings But what are these Ceremonial things to the changing of a morall point in houshold dutie equally belonging to Jew and Gentile divorce was then right now wrong then permitted in the rigorous time of Law now forbidd'n by Law eevn to the most extremely afflicted in the favourable time of grace and freedom But this is not for an unbutton'd fellow to discuss in the Garret at his tressle and dimension of candle by the snuffe which brought forth his cullionly paraphrase on St. Paul whom he brings in discoursing such idle stuff to the Maids and Widdows as his own servile inurbanity forbeares not to put into the Apostles mouth of the soules conversing and this hee presumes to doe beeing a bayard who never had the soul to know what conversing means but as his provender and the familiarity of the Kitchin school'd his conceptions Hee passes to the third Argument like a Boar in a Vinyard doing nought els but still as hee goes champing and chewing over what I could mean by this Chimera of a fit conversing Soul notions and words never made for those chopps but like a generous Wine only by overworking the settl'd mudd of his fancy to make him drunk and disgorge his vileness the more openly All persons of gentle breeding I say gentle though this Barrow grunt at the word I know will apprehend and bee satisfy'd in what I spake how unpleasing and discontenting the society of body must needs be between those whose mindes cannot bee sociable But what should a man say more to a snout in this pickle what language can be low and degenerat anough The fourth Argument which I had was that Mariage beeing a Covnant the very beeing wherof consists in the performance of unfained love and peace if that were not tolerably perform'd the Covnant became broke and revocable Which how can any in whose minde the principles of right reason and justice are not cancell'd deny for how can a thing subsist when the true essence ther of is dissolv'd yet this hee denies and yet in such a manner as alters my assertion for hee puts in though the main end bee not attain'd in full measure but my position is if it be not tolerably attain'd as throughout the whole Discours is apparent Now for his Reasons Heman found not that peace and solace which is the main end of communion with God should hee therfore break off that communion I