Marriage by the morall law of God vindicated against all ceremonial laws of popes and bishops destructive to filiation aliment and succession and the government of familyes and kingdoms
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- Marriage by the morall law of God vindicated against all ceremonial laws of popes and bishops destructive to filiation aliment and succession and the government of familyes and kingdoms
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- Lawrence, William, 1613 or 14-1681 or 2.
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- [London? :: s.n.],
- 1680.
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Contents
- frontispiece
- title page
- TO THE READER.
- THE CONTENTS Of the First Book.
- errata
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OF The Laws of
Marriage, Filiation, Aliment, andSuccession. -
Lib. I. Of the Two Grand Questions concerningMarriage, Filia∣tion, Aliment, andSuccession. -
CHAP. I. Marriage, Filiation, Aliment, and Succession not to be judg∣ed by the Law ofMoses, or Customs of theJews. -
CHAP. II. Marriage, Matrimony, Legitimation, or Succession not to be judged by the Laws and Customs of Heathen Nations. -
CHAP. III. Marriage, Filiation, and Succession, not to be judged by the Law-Civil, Canon, or Feudall. -
CHAP. IV. Marriage, Matrimony, Legitimtaion, or Succession, not to be judged by the Law ofMahomet. - Of Persons with whom Marriage is forbidden.
- Of the Time of approaching Wives.
- Of forbearing to touch Wives.
- Of the propriety of the Wife in her Goods, distinct from the Hus∣band.
- Of giving Suck by the Mother, and Aliment to her, and her Child, and Aliment by the Heir to his Parents.
- Of Legitimation and Succession of Children.
- Of Succession of Children to the Goods of Parents, and of Pa∣rents to theirs, and of Collateral Heirs.
- Of Succession of Brothers and Sisters.
- Of Fornication.
- Of Desertion by Wives of their Husbands.
- Of Adultery by Wives.
- Of Divorce.
- Of the time Women are to tarry before a second Marriage.
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CHAP. V. Marriage, Filiation, Aliment and Succession, not to be judged by Ecclesiastical Laws.- Reasons against Ecclesiastical Laws concerning Marriage.
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The History of the Devil appearing in shape of
Christ to Doctor
Dee, and tempting him, and his SeerKelly, to a Covenant of Community of Wives. -
The Final causes of the Ecclesiastical Laws
concerning Mar∣riage invented by
Daemons, and the Priests ofPriapus andVenus, were Lust, Covetousness and Ambition of the Priests. - The third Reason against Ecclesiastical Laws, is, They pester the Three Kingdoms with an unnecessary and excessive multitude of Laws.
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CHAP. VI. Marriage, Filiation, Aliment, and Succession, not to be judged by such Laws ofEngland, Scotland, orIreland, as are Re∣liques of Popery, and contrary to the Law of God.- Of the profound Popery of the Common Lawyers, in Transub∣stantiation of two persons into one person, and the mischeifs thereof.
- A Note taken at the King's-Bench, of the miraculous Transub∣stantiation of a Shoulder of Mutton; between a Man and his Wife.
- Of the Law of Transubstantiation of the Children of the Wife into the Children of the Husband, if he is within the four Seas at the time of their begetting, and no probation admitted to the contrary. And of Intails on Marriages.
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A further descant on the words of
Littleton andCoke, con∣cerning the transubstantiation of Children of Parents with∣in the four Seas. And of the Law of Intails. - Of the Law of Intails on Marriage, and the mischiefs insuing by them.
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Of the Barbarous Law of Illegitimation, or making
Children in∣capable of Succession to the Goods of their own Parents: And of
the most excellent Law of the Emperour
Anastasius, decree∣ing all natural Children to be Legitimate, and the repeal of the same, caused by the StrumpetTheodora, and the succeeding Popes and Bishops. - That unlawful Marriages of Parents ought not to illegitimate the Children.
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Of the Law of
Consensus non Concubitus facit Matrimo∣nium. -
Of the Pagan Goddess
Juno, and the Popish Mother of SaintKentigern, both got with Child without a Man. -
Of the Lady
Ann ofBritain, married to the bare leg of the Em∣bassadour of the EmperourMaximilian. -
Of
Pulcheria Sister toTheodosius the Emperour, married toMartianus. Of the LadyEtheldred married to two Hus∣bands. The LadyAmigunda married to the Empe∣rourHenry the Second. The LadyEditha toEdward the Confessor. The LadyAnn ofCleve toHenry the Eighth, all married by the Priest, but not by their Husbands.
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Of the Pagan Goddess
- Of the Custom of desertion of Virgins after deflouring.
- Of the Law giving liberty of Temptation to a Minor married to an Husband, after carnal knowledg to desert her Husband, and take a richer.
- Of the Law tempting Women to desert their Husbands, by giving more Alimony then the Interest of the Portion.
- Of the Law making private Marriage or carnal knowledge be∣tween persons not prohibited by the Law of God to marry, Fornication.
- Of the Law requiring Witnesses of Marriage and Filiation, where both are acknowledged by the Parents, and no third party claims the Father, Mother or Child.
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Of the Law when claim is made by Corrivals of one Woman,
of Sequestration of her
pendente placito, and Sentencing either Man or Woman to be restored inSpecie, and not in Value. -
Of the Law making all prohibited Marriages
Null. - Of the Custom of Super-alimentary gifts in consideration of car∣nal knowledge, between a Man and Woman, both before and after Marriage.
- Of the Law giving Jurisdiction of the secret Causes of Divorce between Pa∣rents, and secret Ʋncleanness of Children in their Parents Houses to pub∣lick Tribunals, contrary to the Law of God.
- Of the Law compelling Persons Married though mortal Ene∣mies, to Cohabitation.
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Of the Law of Divorce
à Mensa & Thoro. - Of the Custom of Protestants marrying with Papists.
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CHAP. VII. Marriage, Filiation, Aliment, and Succession ought not to be judged by Ceremonial Laws. -
CHAP. VIII. Marriage, Filiation, Aliment, and Succession, ought only to be judged by the Moral Law of God.
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- THE CONTENTS Of the Second Book.
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Lib. II. Of the Judg of Marriage, Filiation, Aliment, and Succession.-
CHAP. I. Of the Five Competitors to be Judges of Marriage, Fi∣liation, Aliment, and Succession.(1.) The Bishop.(2.) The Magistrate.(3.) The Soldiers.(4.) The Parents.(5.) The King and Parliament.- Exceptions against Bishops being Judges, in reference to the Legislative.
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Of the Sign of Mission required by the Grand
Seignior ofSa∣batai Sevi a counterfeitJewish Messiah. - They have falsely Translated and Expounded the Scriptures in all words relating to Marriage.
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They have falsely translated the Seventh Commandment
Lo Ti∣naph to be Adultery.-
They have falsely translated
to be Fornication. -
They have falsely translated
in the Tenth Commandment, to be the Man Servant, and Maid-Servant. -
They have falfely translated
Mamzer andNothos Bastard, wherein are noted the great Errors ofCoke, Skene, andGrotius, by following the Bishops translation, and other Po∣pish Writers.
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They have falsely translated
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The Question is, WhetherMamzer in the Old Testament, andin the New, are falsely translatèd Bastard? - They corrupt the Press, both as to Scripture and Law, and inter∣dict Protestants to write against Papists, or answer them.
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By pretence of giving the King the name of
Supremacy, they have taken the Thing to themselves. - By pretence of giving the King Supremacy by the Ceremonies of Coronation and Unction, they take it from him to them∣selves.
- They assume in the Judgment of all matters concerning Marri∣riage, Filiation, Aliment, and Succession, to be above Ap∣peal to the Kings Courts.
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Of the abominable Judgment passed by the Common Law
Judges in
Kennes Case,Coke lib. 7.42. whereby they gave away the Supremacy of the King's Courts to the Bishop, and made them in all Causes Matrimonial, subject to no Appeal. - Exceptions against Bishops being Judges, in reference to the Ju∣dicial Power.
- Ceremonies and Circumstances in this agree.
- Ceremonies and Circumstances in this differ.
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Of the manifold Mischiefs which insue by Compulsion
to Marry by the particular Ceremonies of a Priest or a Temple.
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(1.) It compels to enter into an indissoluble Obligation, before, the Parties can know each other, whether they are fit for Marriage or no. -
(2.) It gives the Bishop the Monopoly of all Women, and their Goods. -
(3.) It gives him the Monopoly of Successions both in Private Families and Kingdoms. -
(4.) It gives him Power to Judg of Marriage, Filiation, and Succes∣sions, by Fictions. -
(5.) It causeth in the Rich Excess, and Vanity of Apparel, Tilting, Turne∣aments, Masking, Gluttony, Ryot, and Drunkenness. -
(6.) It undoeth the Poor in their Marriages. -
(7.) It causeth immadesty in Brides, wanton Songs and Ceremonies, pre∣miscuary Dancing, and corruption of Youth. -
(8.) It exposeth to publick view, what God hath commanded to be secret; and ridiculously appointeth ocular Witnesses of what is invisible, and neither lawful nor pussible to be seen. -
(9.) It causeth Community of Women, Community of Children, Forni∣cation, Adultery, Stews, Brothels, and the dissemination of most contagious and deadly Diseases amongst the People. -
(10.) It causeth Prostitutions of Brides to Priests, Lords, Guests, and others. -
(11.) It caused the Consecration of Incest, Whores and Sodomites, to at∣tend the Service of the Priests and Temples. -
(12.) It caused the Consecration and Adoration ofPriapus, Baal-Peor, Venus, Adonis, andFlora, for Gods and Goddesses, and was the first which defiled the Virgin-World with Whoredom and Idolatry. -
(13.) It first destroyed in the World the Omnipresential Worship of God. - Prayer in Temples and Synagogues forbid by Christ, and a di∣stinction of the Place of Prayer and Preaching Commanded.
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(15.) It caused the bloody Sacrifices of Virgins, Children, andIndian Wives. -
(16.) It layes Punishment on Lawful Childbirths, and destroys Milli∣ons of Infants. -
(17.) It caused theParisian Massacre of an Hundred Thousand Prote∣stants.
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Why the
Ottoman Emperors Marry not by a Priest, or in a Temple; and of the Bloody Murders ensued of the Sons ofSolyman the Magnificent by breaking the Custom, and being drawn by the Deceit ofRoxolana to Marry her by a Priest.-
(12.) They proceed to Judgment in the unknown language of Law-Latine. - Exceptions against Bishops being Judges, in reference to the Executive Power.
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They Pledg before Summons, Summon before Copy, Copy
be∣fore Oath, Punish before Contumacy, Judg before Hearing or Probation, and
Arrest before Judgment.
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(2.) That no man ought to be Summon'd before a Judg, until aPro∣ductio Testium first made to him. -
(3.) That a Defendant can be guilty of no Contumacy till anOblatio Li∣belli, and aProductio Testium first made to him. -
(4.) That no Pledges or Distress ought to be taken till Judgment. -
(5.) That no Bail ought to be Exacted before Contumacy or Judgment. -
(6.) That no Arrest ought to be made before a Judgment, though there is Contumacy. -
(7.) That though there is a Judgment, yet Christ allows no Imprison∣ment of a Debtor not able to pay; for Disability is no Contumacy; and Poverty may more often fall on the Righteous than the Wicked. -
(10.) That he allows on lawful Probation and Judgment, Imprison∣ment to be by one single Judg.
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- Of Summons to answer before a Copy given of what is required to be answer'd.
- Of giving a Copy before an Oath of Calumny, That he who gives it, believes the same true and just.
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A Note of the Fictions of the Episcopal Form of the
Letter in
Chan∣cery, usually sent to a Noble-man, instead of aSubpoena, to Answer. -
An Enumeration of divers Forms of Judicial Proceeding,
whereby the People are Condemn'd, and Judgment pass'd against them before
Hearing.
- A Dispute between two Judges, concerning Formality and Truth in Judicial Proceeding.
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(2.) The Plaintiff, especially if a Poor man, is Condemn'd without Hearing, by being compell'd to begin his Suits by the Purchase of Original Writs, and so likewise the Defendant. - De Formulis & impetrationibus Actionum Sublatis.
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Of the Fatal Danger threatning all Protestants, by the
Di∣vision of the Three Parliaments of
England, Scotland, andIreland, and the inestimable Benefits ensue the Union of the same in one House.-
(1.) Whether an Union of Crowns be necessary to perfect an Union of Parliaments and Kingdoms? -
(2.) Whether an Unity of Protestant Churches is necessary, to an Union of Protestant-Kingdoms? -
(3.) Whether permission of Protestants to Excommunicate Protestants, is consistent with the Unity of Protestant-Churches?
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The Form of the
Jewish Excommunication. -
The Form of the
Greek Excommunication against Thieves. -
The Form of the
Popes Excommunication against QueenElizabeth. - All the said Forms of Excommunications Wicked and Anti-Christian.
- Excommunication of the Devil.
- How vain the hopes are of obliging Bishops, either by their Duty of Allegiance to their Native King, or by Benefits or Oaths, it appears by the Examples following.
- As to the Impossibility of Safety of Princes amongst Subjects, Educated in fear of Excommunication.
- As to the Impossibility of obliging Bishops by Oath.
- Excommunication makes all Sins equal.
- Excommunication Pardons all Sin for Money.
- Excommunication sets up Idolatry.
- Excommunication and Power to Judg of Heresie, returns all to Popery and Priest-riding.
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Excommunication without a Sign of Mission, not
Instituted by Christ, but invented by
Pagan Priests and Daemons. - Whether an Union can be of Protestant-Parliaments and Churches, without a true Test between Papist and Prote∣stant?
- Whether Recusancy to pray in a Temple, or in the Form of Common-Prayer, is a true Test between Papist and Prote∣stant?
- Whether Recusancy to receive the Sacrament in a Temple, or in the Common-Form, is a true Test?
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Whether Subscription to the
39. Articles is a true Test? - Whether the Positive part of the Oath of Supremacy is a true Test?
- Of the Mischiefs which ensue a false Test between Protestant and Papist.
- An Essay of the Form of a Test, whereat it seems no Prote∣stant can scruple.
- Whether any Test of the Conscience ought to be Penal, either to Protestant or Papist.
- Whether Papists or Protestants ought to be Compell'd to Con∣fession of Faith, or any External Form, or Ceremonies of Worship, against their Conscience, by Penalties?
- Of the Four first General Councils, by which Bishops would Judg Heresie, and of the Suspition lies on such Judges to be Papists, and not to be Prayed for in Publick.
- Considerations on the Judgment of Heresie when assumed by Bi∣shops, according to the Four first General Councils, if it make them suspect to be Papists, and not sit to be Prayed for in Publick.
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