The Works of Mr. John Milton

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THE WORKS O F Mr> John Milton, \ 1 Printed in the Year M DC XC TREATISES Contained in this VOLUME Page THE DoBrin and Disciplin of Divorce. i Tetrachordon. y 6z Colafterion. i 27 The fudgment of Martin Bucer touching Divorce. 1 5 3 Of Reformation touching Church-Difciplin in England. 1 70 The Reasons of Church^Government. 205 A Treatise of Civil Tower in Ecclefiajlical Causes. 24. 5 Considerations touching the liveliest Means to remove Hirelings out of the Church. z6o Of Trelatical Episcopacy. 284. Animadversions upon the Remonstrants Defence againjl Smectymnuus. 294 An Appology against a Tamphlet call'd a Mode/I Confutation^ &c. 525 The Ready and Easy Way to Establish a Free-Commonwealth. Areopagitica a Speech for the Liberty of the Tress* 371 The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates. 397 Notes upon Dr. Griffiths Sermon. 4.22 Of True Religion, Heresy and Schism. 4.28 Eiconoclasles. 4*+° Articles ofTeacewith the Irish Rebels, Scotch Irish Representation with Observations, 530 THE THE Doctrine and Discipline o F DIVORCE: Restor'd to the Good of both S E X E S» From the Bondage of CANON LAW- And other Mistakes, to the true Meaning of Scripture in the L A W and GOSPEL comparU Wherein also are set down the bad Consequences of abolifhing or condemning of Sin, that which the Law of God allows, and Christ abolilht not.

InTWO BOOKS To the Parliament of ENGLAND, with the Assembly. The Author f. MILTON. Matth. 13. 51. Every Scribe instructed to the Kingdom of Heav'n, is like tbe Master of a House which bringeth out ef his Treasury things new and old. Prov. 1 8. tj. He that answer eth a matter hes ore he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto bint. Printed in the Year MDCXCVII THE < DOCTRINE AND DISCIPLINE O F DIVORCE, Restored to the Good of both SEXES I. Book. The Preface. That Man is the occafion of his own miseries, in the most of those evils which he imputes to Gods inflicting. The absurdity of our Canonists in their Decrees alout Divorce. The Christian Imperial Laws framed with more Equity. The opinion of Hugo Grotius, and Paulus Fagius : And tbe purpose in general of this Discourse. MANY Men, whether it be their fate, or fond opinion, easily perswade themselves, if God would but be pleas'd a while to withdraw his just punisliments from us, and to restrain what power either the Devil, or any earthly enemy hath to work us woe, that then Mans nature would find immediate rest and releafement from all evils.

But verily they who think so, if they be such as have a mind large enough to take into their thoughts a general sur vey of humane things, would soon prove themselves in that opinion for de ceiv'd. For though it were granted us by divine indulgence to be exempt from all that can be harmful to us from without, yet the perverseness of our folly is so bent, that we soould never in hammering out of our own hearts, as it were out of a flint, the seeds and sparkels of new misery to our selves, till all were in a blaze again. And no marvel if out of our own hearts, for they are evil ; but even out of those things which God meant us, either for a principal good, ora pure contentment, wreare still hatching and contriving upon our selves matter of continual sorrow and perplexity. What greater good to Man then that revealed rule, whereby God vouchsafes to shew us how he would be worlhipt ?