THE

PROSE WORKS

OF

JOHN MILTON.

VOLUME III.

CONTAINING

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 IIL. KING OF POLAND
FAMILIAR ZETTERS.

WITH

A PREFACE, PRELIMINARY REMARKS, AND NOTES,

BY J. A. ST. JOHN.

LONDON: GEORGE BELL AND SONS, YORK STREET,

51163

LONDON:

PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED,

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TO VINU

CONTENTS OF VOLUME III.

CONSIDERATION

CONSIDERATIONS TOUCHING THE LIKELIEST MEANS TO RE-

MOVE HIRELINGS OUT OF THE CHURCH. Wherein is

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

venues; and whether any Maintenance of Ministers can

be settled by Law

ANIMADVERSIONS UPON THE REMONSTRANT'S DEFENCE

AGAINST SMECTYMNUUS

AN APOLOGY FOR SMECTYMNUUS

THE DOCTRINE AND DISCIPLINE OF DIVORCE; restored 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

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

COLASTERION : a Reply to a Nameless Answer against "the

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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

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

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