VERS. 3.4. [Vers. 3.4.] For Herod had laid hold on Iohn and
Theologicall questions, dogmaticall observations, and evangelicall essays, vpon the Gospel of Jesus Christ, according to St. Matthew Wherein, about two thousand six hundred and fifty necessary, and profitable questions are discussed; and five hundred and eighty speciall points of doctrine noted; and five hundred and fifty errours confuted, or objections answered: together with divers arguments, whereby divers truths, and true tenents are confirmed. By Richard VVard, sometimes student in the famous vniversities of Cambridge in England: St. Andrews in Scotland: and Master of Arts of both the kingdoms; and now a preacher in the famous city of London.
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- Theologicall questions, dogmaticall observations, and evangelicall essays, vpon the Gospel of Jesus Christ, according to St. Matthew Wherein, about two thousand six hundred and fifty necessary, and profitable questions are discussed; and five hundred and eighty speciall points of doctrine noted; and five hundred and fifty errours confuted, or objections answered: together with divers arguments, whereby divers truths, and true tenents are confirmed. By Richard VVard, sometimes student in the famous vniversities of Cambridge in England: St. Andrews in Scotland: and Master of Arts of both the kingdoms; and now a preacher in the famous city of London.
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- Ward, Richard, 1601 or 2-1684.
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- M.DC.XL. [1640]
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"Theologicall questions, dogmaticall observations, and evangelicall essays, vpon the Gospel of Jesus Christ, according to St. Matthew Wherein, about two thousand six hundred and fifty necessary, and profitable questions are discussed; and five hundred and eighty speciall points of doctrine noted; and five hundred and fifty errours confuted, or objections answered: together with divers arguments, whereby divers truths, and true tenents are confirmed. By Richard VVard, sometimes student in the famous vniversities of Cambridge in England: St. Andrews in Scotland: and Master of Arts of both the kingdoms; and now a preacher in the famous city of London." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A14721.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 13, 2024.
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bound him, and put him in prison, for Herodias sake, his brother Philips wife. For Iohn said unto him, It is not lawfull for thee to have her.
Many great causes the Baptist had to reprove Herod, because many sins did concur in this one fact of his, in taking his Brothers wife; namely,
First, Adultery, in lying with another mans wife.
Secondly, Injustice, in rejecting and casting off an innocent wife; for he was married when he fell in love with his brother Philips wife, and then cast his own off, and took the other unto him.
Thirdly, Rape, injustice, oppression, and tyran∣ny, in snatching by force, another mans wife from him.
Fourthly, an incestuous habitation with the wife of his brother, who was now alive, and had had children by his wife Herodias. And therefore it was a most unlawfull marriage.