THE

PROSE WORKS

OF

JOHN MILTON

VOLUME III

THE LIKELIEST MEANS TO REMOVE HIRELINGS OUT OF THE CHURCH
ANIMADVERSIONS UPON THE REMONSTRANTS' DEFENCE

AGAINST SMECTYMNUUS

APOLOGY FOR SMECTYMNUUS
THE DOCTRINE AND DISCIPLINE OF DIVORCE
THE JUDGMENT OF MARTIN BUCER CONCERNING DIVORCE
TETRACHORDON. COLASTERION. TRACTATE ON EDUCATION
A DECLARATION FOR THE ELECTION OF JOHN III. KING OF POLAND

FAMILIAR LETTERS

WITH A PREFACE, PRELIMINARY REMARKS, AND NOTES

By J. A. ST. JOHN

LONDON

GEORGE BELL AND SONS

1904

371

CONTENTS OF VOLUME III.

!A.

CONSIDERATIONS TOUCHING THE LIXELIEST MEANS TO RE-

MOVE HIRELINGS OUT OF THE CHURCH. Wherein is

alsu discoursed of Tithes, Church Fees, and Church Re-

venues; and whether any Maintenance of Ministers can

be settled by Law

ANIMADVERSIONS

REMONSTRANT'S DEFENCE

AGAINST SMECTYMNUUS

1

UPON

THE

AN APOLOGY FOR SMECTYMNUUS

93

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THE DOCTRINE AND DISCIPLINE OF DIVORCE ; resiored to

the good of both Sexes, from the Bondage of Canon Law,

and other Mistakes, to the true Meaning of Scripture in

the Law and Gospel compared. Wherein also are set

down the bad Consequences of abolishing, or condemning

as Sin, that which the Law of God allows, and Christ

abolished not. Now the second time revised and much

augmented. In Two Books : to the Parliament of England

with the Assembly

169

THE JUDGMENT OF Martin BUCER, CONCERNING DIVORCE :

written to Edward the Sixth, in his Second Book of the

Kingdom of Christ : and now Englished. Wherein a

late «Book, restoring “ the Doctrine and Discipline of Di-

vorce,” is here confirmed and justified by the Authority of

Martin Bucer. To the Parliament of England

. 274

TETRACHORDON : Expositions upon the Four chief Places in

Scripture which treat of Marriage, or Nullities in Marri-

age. Wherein“ the Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce," as

was lately published, is confirmed by Explanation of Scrip-

ture; by Testimony of ancient Fathers ; of Civil Laws in

the Primitive Church ; of famousest Reformed Divines ;

and lastly, by an intended Act of the Parliament and

Church of England in the last Year of Edward the Sixth , 315

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PAOL,

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COLASTERION : Reply to a Nameless Answer against “the

Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce.” Wherein the trivial

Author of that Answer is discovered, the Licenser con-

ferred with, and the Opinion which they traduce defended. 434

ON EDUCATION

462

A DECLARATION; or, Letters-Patents, for the Election of this

present King of Poland, John the Third, elected on the

22nd of May last past, A.D. 1674. Containing the Reasons

of this Election, the great Virtues and Merits of the said

Serene Elect, his eminent Services in War, especially in

his last great Victory against the Turks and Tartars,

whereof many Particulars are here related, not published

before

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FAMILTAR LETTERS

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