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B02399 Bishop Cozens's argument, proving, that adultery works a dissolution of the marriage. Being the substance of several of Bishop Cozens his speeches in the House of Lords, upon the debate of Lord Ross's case. Taken from original papers writ in the Bishop's own hand. Cosin, John, 1594-1672. 1700 (1700) Wing C6351B; ESTC R175839 10,178 4

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is only saved by those of our Church who agree with them Upon the difference of Explication between S. Ambrose Origen and S. Austin a new kind of Divorce has been thought of from Bed and Board but this Divorce or Name of a Divorce was unknown to the Jews and Ancient Christians I said so much before at the First and Second reading of this Bill that I was in good hopes to have had no further occasion given me of answering any Objections against it now but seeing divers new Arguments have been studied and framed against it since that time I shall now endeavour to satisfie and clear them all 1. The First Argument against it is That the Separation from Bed and Board doth not dissolve the Bond of Marriage To which I must Reply as I did before That this is a distinction without a difference newly invented by the Canonists and School men and never heard of either in the Old or New Testament nor in the times of the Antient Fathers who accounted the Separation from Bed and Board to be the Dissolution of the Bond it self 2. That first Institution of Marriage that they may be one Flesh is by Adultery dissolved when the Adultress makes herself one Flesh with another Man and thereby dissolves the first Bond of her Marriage 3. The Objection that if the Bond be dissolved and afterwards if the Man or Woman be reconciled they must be Married over again is no necessary Consequence no more than 't is in a Person baptized who may break his Covenant and renounce his Baptism and yet upon true Repentance be received into God's Favour by virtue of the first Covenant without any new Baptism Suppose a Witch who they say makes a Compact with the Devil to renounce her Baptism should afterwards by the Grace of God seriously and truly Repent her self of the Wickedness I do not believe that any body would take upon him to Baptize her again and if a Priest should renounce his Orders and turn Turk and yet afterwards repent him and return into the Church he need not be Re-ordained a second time The Case will be the same in Marriage 4. I said heretofore That the Roman Doctors allowed this Dissolution of the Bond when the Man and Wife even after the Consumation of Marriage would transfer themselves into a Friary or a Nunnery but because it hath been since doubted that no Authority can be shewed for this particular I shall here shew it out of the old Constitutions of the Church of England And in the Case of Religion Prov. Will. Lindewode sive Const ng fol. 94. Ver nul latenus Separentur that is the true understanding that to wit either of them betaking themselves to Religion before Carnal Knowledge the Bond of the Marriage be dissolved but it both enter into Religion and make solemn Profession then such Marriage is dissolved even as to the Bond. 5. It hath also been said that if the Bill pass it will pass against the Church of England which I confess I do not understand For the Church of England is within the Kingdom of England and if the Laws of this Kingdome be for the Bill and have declared it by the Assent of the King Lords and Commons as in the Case of the Marquis of Northampton was heretofore declared in the time of King Edward the 6th That by the Laws of God the Innocent Party was at liberty to Marry again Certainly the Spiritual Lords as well as the Temporal and Commons are bound to admit it and I know not why they should be called the Church of England that joyn with the Council of Trent and plead so much to uphold it rather than others that join with all the Reformed Churches and plead against that Canon of the Church of Rome which hath laid an Anathema upon us if we do not agree with them As to the supposed Inconveniencies that will follow upon Marrying again 1. More Inconveniences will follow if they be forbidden to Marry again 2. The Father would be in an uncertainty of the Children if he should retain the Adulteress 3. There would be danger of Poysoning or killing one another if no Second Marriage were allowed 4. Where the Parties should consent to new Marriages for their own Lusts the Magistrates have Power to over-rule such Practices 5. If they be kept altogether by Divorce from Marrying it would occasion the Innocent Party to Sin THE Duke of Norfolk's Case WITH REASONS for Passing his BILL IF want either of Precedent for a Parliamentary Divorce before going through the tedious and ineffectual Methods of Doctors Commons or of Demonstration of Fact have hitherto deprived the Duke of Norfolk of that Relief against his Wives Adultery which the Divine Law allows The late Statute made in the like Case and the Coming in of Two who while the Duke 's former Bill was depending had been sent away to prevent that Discovery which they now make cannot but be thought to remove all Objections against an Act of Parliament not only for the benefit of the Duke but of the Publick as a means to preserve the Inheritance of so great an Office and Honours to Persons of the true Religion And since Bishop Cozens his Argument in the Lord Ross's Case has made it Evident That those Canons which govern the Spiritual Court in this matter are but the remains of Popery nothing can be now requisite to satifie the most scrupulous of the Reformed Religion but to set the Duke's Proofs of his Lady's Adultery in a true Light The Reputation which the Dutchess had maintained of Wit and Discretion made it difficult for many to believe that she could be surprized in the very Act of Adultery as had been formerly prov●d And though then it appeared that one Henry Keemer lived with the Dutchess while she went by a feigned Name at an House hired for her at Fox-Hall by Sr John Germain's Brother and that Nicola who then lived with Sir John used to receive Wood sent from the Dutches to Sir John's house by the Cock-pit the withdrawing of Nicola and carrying with him the Dutch Maid equally Entrusted with the secret on Sir Johns side left no Evidence of their Constant Conversation but Keemer since dead and Susannah Barrington who had the like Trust from the Dutchess Keemer though very unwillingly some years since confessed his living with the Dutchess at Fox-hall where he pretended she was obliged to conceal her self for Debt and what share Susannah had in the secret was unknovn till Nicola appeared Nicola coming into England sometime since in Ex●ectation of a Service express'd his readiness to discover what he knew and to Endeavour to bring with him the Dutch Maid She proves That for two Months the first Summer after the King came for England Sir John German and the Dutchess lived together as Man and Wife and were seen in Bed together by her Mr. Bryan and his VVife Sir John's Sister and that Nicholas