Considerations concerning marriage the honour, duties, benefits, troubles of it whereto are added 1. directions in two particulars, 1. how they that have wives may be as if they had none, 2., how to prepare for parting with a dear yoke-fellow by death, or other-wife : 2. resolution of this case of conscience, whether a man may lawfully marry his wives sister? / by Edward Reyner ...

Title

Considerations concerning marriage the honour, duties, benefits, troubles of it whereto are added 1. directions in two particulars, 1. how they that have wives may be as if they had none, 2., how to prepare for parting with a dear yoke-fellow by death, or other-wife : 2. resolution of this case of conscience, whether a man may lawfully marry his wives sister? / by Edward Reyner ...

Author

Reyner, Edward, 1600-1668.

Publication

London :: Printed by J. T. for Thomas Newbery ...,

1657.

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Subject terms

Marriage with deceased wife's sister -- Early works to 1800.

Marriage -- Early works to 1800.

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"Considerations concerning marriage the honour, duties, benefits, troubles of it whereto are added 1. directions in two particulars, 1. how they that have wives may be as if they had none, 2., how to prepare for parting with a dear yoke-fellow by death, or other-wife : 2. resolution of this case of conscience, whether a man may lawfully marry his wives sister? / by Edward Reyner ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A57118.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 7, 2024. content_copy

Contents

• title page
• TO THE READER.
• TO THE READER.
• Let the Reader be desired to amend these faults with his pen before he peruse the Bok.
• THE HONOUR OF MARIAGE. There be four things con∣siderable in it.
  • I. The Honour of Mariage.
  • II. The Duties of Mariage.
  • III. The Benefits of Mariage.
  • IV. The Troubles of Mariage.
  • QUAERE. Whether is it lawful for a man to mary his wives own sister?
    • First Argument.
    • 2. Argument.
    • 3. Argument.
    • 4. Argument.
    • Fifth Argument.
    • The Sixth Argument