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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.
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Cosin, John, 1594-1672.
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and those of the Church of Rome whose Credit is only saved by those of our Church who agree with them Upon the difference of Explication between St. Ambrose Origen and St. 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 Iews 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 Schoolmen and never heard of either in the Old or New Testâ—ment 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 her selfe 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 Consummation 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 five Const. Ang. 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 if 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 Kingdom 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 England that joyn with the Council of Trent and plead so much to uphold it rather than others that joyn with all the Reformed Churches and plead against that Canon of the Church of Rome which hath laid an Anaethema upon us if we do not agree with them As to the supposed Inconveniences 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 FINIS
the Bond hinders it also as to Bed and Board because the same Bed and the same Table were promised in the Marriage Contract but the Promise does not extend even to Tolerating Adultery or Malicious Desertion which according to God's Ordinance Dissolves the Marriage Our Saviour speaks of Divorces Instituted by the Mosaical Law but they were no other than Divorces from the Bond. The Form of the Bill of Divorce among the Iews was this Be Expelled from me and free for any Body else To give the Bill of Divorce is from the Hebrew Root 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is to break or cut off the Marriage With this agree the Ancient Canons Councils and Fathers of the Church Concil Neocaesar Elib forbid the retaining an Adulterous Wife Concil Eliber Aurelian Arelatens give Liberty in such Case to marry again Clemens's Constitution Tertullian St. Basil in his Canons approved by a General Council are for Marrying again Concil Venet. If they marry in any other Case than Fornication they are to be Excommunicated and not otherwise Concil Wormat. gives Liberty to the Innocent Party to Marry after Divorce Concil Lateran gives leave for the Innocent Party after a Year to marry again Concil Lateran If any one take another Wife while a Suit is depending and afterwards there be a Divorce between him and the First he may remain with the Second Lactantius St. Hierom and Epiphanius are for allowance of Marriage after Divorce Chrysostom Hom. 19. 1 Cor. 7. says That the Marriage is dissolved by adultery and that the husband after he hath put her away is no longer her husband Theophylact on the 16th of St. Luke says That St. Luke must be interpreted by St. Matthew St. Hillary is for marrying again as Dr. Fulk saith upon St. Matthew the V th The Eastern Bishops in the Council of Florence are for marrying again Iustin Matyr speaks of a Christian Woman's giving a bill of Divorce to a Dissolute Husband without finding any fault with it St. Ambrose says a man may marry again if he put away an adulterous Wife Theodoret said of a Wife who violated the Laws of Marriage Therefore our Lord requires the Bond or Tye of Marriage to be dissolved All the Greek Church to this day allow it Erasmus Cajetan and other Papists The Civil Law and the Laws of the Emperor are clear for it And the Constitutions of our own Church of England in the time of H. 8. E. 6. and Queen Eliz. The Practice of the English Church In the Stat. 1 Iac. c. 11. against Second Marriages Divorces are excepted and in Canon 107. 't is provided they shall not marry again but it is not said such Marriages are void only the Caution is forfeited Neither doth the Canon speak of such Separations wherein the Bond it self is broken as 't is by Fornication Even the Canon-Law allows marrying again in case a Woman seek her Husband's Life and in case of Bond woman Gratian says in the Case of Adultery Lawful Marâ—iages ought not to be denied In the Case of an Incurable Leprosy it was the Advice of St. Gregory to Austin the Monk That he that could not contain should rather marry Bellermin owns that the Bond of the Marriage of Infidels is dissolvable but the Marriage of the Faithful and of Infidels is of the same nature And Iustinian a Jesuit confesses that it is simply lawfull for the Innocent Party to marry again And the Roman Doctors allow a dissolution of the Bond of Marriage if the Parties should after consummation transfer themselves into a Friery or Nunnery The Canons which in the case of Adultery prohibit Marrying in the Life time of the guilty Person are contrary to Two Acts of Parliament made 25 H. 8. and 3 4 E. 6. wherein no Canons are allowed that be any way repugnant to the Laws of God Ref. Leg Eccles. Tit. de Adulteriis Divortiis or the Scripture the King's Prerogative Royal and the Statutes of this Land 32 Persons were to review the Canon-Law in which Review drawn up by Archbishop Cranmer the Innocent Person is permitted to marry again according to Christ's Law and Concession We have examples of such Marriages in H. 4. of France H. 8. of England Lord Mountjoy Lord Rich Bishop Thornborough and divers others And it is observable That in the Case of the Marquess of Northampton 5 E. 6. who had been divorced for his Lady's Adultery and married another before any Act of Parliament made concerning it an Act which passed afterwards only two Spiritual and two Temporal Lords dissenting declares he had been at liberty by the Laws of God to marry and did lawfully marry another Where the Act manifestly supposes that whatever had obtained for Law till that time was void as being contrary to God's Law The most considerable Men of the Reform'd Churches both at home and abroad are of this Opinion Grotius quotes Tertullian in whose time it was lawful for the Innocent Party to Marry Lancelot Inst. Iur. Can acknowledges that Divorce is a dissolution of the Marriage Selden who is not likely to contradict the Laws of this Kingdom maintaineth That Marriage after Divorce is to be allowed And in that particular Dr. Hammond doth not contradict him but is clearly for it The Opinion of Amesius deserves to be set down at large Marriage says he cannot be dissolved by men at their pleasure and for that reason as it is considered simply and absolutely it is rightly said to be indissolvable because Marriage is not only a Civil but a Divine Conjunction and is also of that nature that it cannot be dissolved without detriment to either Party Yet it is not so indissolvable but it may be dissolved for a Cause which God approves as just for the Indissolvability was not instituted for a Punishment but for the Comfort of Innocent Persons and it admits an Exception wherein God ceases to conjoyn By Adultery two are made not to remain one Flesh hence it is that a Contagious Disease is not a Cause of dissolving Marriage By Adultery the very Essence of the Contract is directly violated but the Contract ceasing the Bond dâ—pending on the Contract necessarily ceases It is against all reason that all Matrimonial Duties should be for ever taken away yet the Bond or Obligation to those Duties should continue The words of our Lord Matth. 5. 32. and 19. 9. have no distinction or limitation of the putting away but simply and absolutely approve of putting away therefore they approve of a putting away not partial or to a particular purpose from Bed and Board but Total None are against the Reformed Divines but Dr. Howson Mr. Bunny and Dr. Prideaux Dr. Howson was a professed Adversary to Dr. Raynolds who was a great Maintainer of the Church of England against all the Points of Popery and particulary in thiâ—â— Dr. Taylor Bishop Hall Dr. Fulk are for Second Marriages no Authors against them but the Council of Trent