PUBLISHED BY BOWLES AND DEARBORN,

No. 72 Washington Street.

1826.

CONTENTS OF VOL. II.

Of Education. To Master Samuel Hartlib

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Areopagitica; a Speech for the Liberty of Unli-

censed Printing, to the Parliament of England

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, &c. In two Books. To the Parlia-

ment of England, with the Assembly

BOOK FIRST. THE PREFACE. That Man is the oсса-

sion of his own Miseries, in most of those Evils which

he imputes to God's Inflicting. The Absurdity of our

Canonists in their Decrees about Divorce. The Chris.

tian imperial Laws framed with more Equity. The

Opinion of Hugo Grotius and Paulus Fagius; and the

Purpose in general of this Discourse

CHAPTER I. The Position proved by the Law of Moses

CHAPTER II. The first Reason of this Law grounded on

the prime Reason of Matrimony. That no Covenant

whatsoever obliges against the main End both of itself

and of the Parties covenanting

CHAPTER III. The Ignorance and Iniquity of Canon Law,

providing for the Right of the Body in Marriage, but

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