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State for the end design 'd by God & Nature, and was then 

 in the full vigor of his ]\Ianhood, could ill bear the disap- 

 pointment hee mett Avith by her obstinate absenting: And 

 therefore thought upon a Divorce, that hee might be free to 

 marry another; concerning which hee also was in treaty. The 

 lawfulness and expedience of this, duly regulat in order to 

 all those purposes, for which Marriage was at first instituted ; 

 had upon full consideration & reading good Authors bin 

 formerly his Opinion : And the necessity of justifying him- 

 selfe now concurring with the opportunity, acceptable to 

 him, of instructing others in a point of so great concern •'° to 

 the peace and preservation of Families; and so likely to 

 prevent temptations as well as mischiefs,^" hee first writt 

 Tlie Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce, then Colasterion, 

 and after Tetrachordon:^^ In these ^- hee taught the right 

 use and design of Marriage; then the Original & practise of 

 Divorces amongst the Jews, and^^ show'd that our Savior, 

 in those foure places of the Evangelists,^* meant not the 



she, who was very young, and had been bred in a family of plenty and 

 freedom, being not well pleased with her Husband's retired manner of 

 life, did shortly after leave him and went back in the Country with 

 her Mother. Whereupon, tho he sent divers pressing invitations, yet 

 he could not prevail with her to come back, till about four years after 

 when the Garrison of Oxon was surrendered (the nighness of her 

 Father's house to which having for the most part of the meantime 

 hindered any communication between them) she of her own accord re- 

 turned and submitted to him, pleading that her Mother had been the 

 chief promoter of her frowardness.' 



^ ' in the Interval ' read originally ' in this meantime.' ' Interval ' 

 was substituted for ' meantime,' and * this ' changed to ' the.' 



*• ' of so great concern ' substituted for ' so necessary.' 



" ' as well as mischiefs ' substituted for ' to Sin.' 



" AYood changes the order of the last two pamphlets; the two were 

 in fact published the same day, March 4, 1G44-5. 



" Substituted for ' which.' 



'^ ' by expounding after other correct [ ? the word is illegible] di- 

 vines the foure passages in the Evangelists ' obliterated and ' show'd ' 

 substituted. 



"It is not likely that a clergyman would be ignorant that three of 

 the * foure places ' were outside the Evangelists. Milton discusses ( 1 ) 

 Genesis i. 27, 28, with ii. 18, 23, 24; (2) Deut. xxiv. 1, 2; (3) Matt. 

 v.,31, 32, with xix. 3-11; (4) 1 Cor. vii. 10-lG. 



